Fairhope, Alabama
Update: This project was subsequently approved by the planning commission; still needs final city council ok.
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| New Fairhope WAWA gas station. |
STORE #5804
The site plan for a new WAWA gas station within city limits in northeast Fairhope is expected to be approved during next week's Planning Commission meeting: a part of the larger 'Encounter Development' project on Hwy 181 north of 104 named in reference to the famous movie filmed there in the 1970s.
The site for the other planned WAWA store on S. Greeno Road at Twin Beech has been ready for construction for some time but the company has not requested a building permit yet, according to the city's building official. This lot is outside city limits.
"Wawa" is a native American tribe's word meaning "goose" in the Pennsylvania-area where the company originated. They have stores all along the Eastern Seaboard and in Florida.
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| New WAWA store site. |
Comments
to do with the timing of a project like this. As a general contractor, I have
built hundreds of projects including many, many, gas station/convenience stores.
NEVER ONCE in discussions with my clients did the school year EVER come up in
relation to when a project should break ground or open for business. The are so
many other far more important variables that control how these thing happen that
the school year is of absolutely no consequence whatsoever.
I am truly confused as to why the previous poster would even think that!