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Plans Approved For Escambia County’s First Wawa Store At Nine Mile, Beulah Road Intersection
October 26, 2023
Wawa is headed to Beulah.
Plans were approved this week by the Escambia County Development Review Committee.
The popular convenience store chain submitted plans for a 6,119 square feet location at the corner of Beulah Road and Nine Mile Road.
Initial plans were filed with the Escambia County Development Review Committee for the store to be located on 17.37 acres. Plans show limited access only from westbound Nine Mile Road and full access from Beulah Road.
Another store is planned this year for HIghway 98 at North Blue Angel Parkway. Wawa said there are three or four additional locations in Escambia County still under consideration, with a goal of 6-10 locations by 2025.
Last April, Wawa announced they were actively looking for potential sites for new stores in the Pensacola area, along with Panama City, Tallahassee and Mobile. Current plans are for Wawa to open up to 40 stores in these markets beginning in 2024.
In 2022, Wawa marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of its first Florida store. The store opened July 18, 2012, in Orlando across from SeaWorld. Since then Wawa has expanded rapidly throughout the state and opened its 250th store in Florida last year. Today, Wawa employs almost 10,000 associates across the Sunshine State.
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27 Responses to “Plans Approved For Escambia County’s First Wawa Store At Nine Mile, Beulah Road Intersection”
Wawa is above and beyond any convenience store/gas station anywhere in Escambia County. I miss going to Wawa, there is nothing like it! I will drive from Pace to Beulah just to go there! Maybe they will reconsider and build some in Santa Rosa, as well.
Wish we had a WaWa instead of (another!) DG at 196 and 29 but maybe WaWa will build out Molino way too.
Will there be a Tesla supercharger?
My sister & myself are hoping for someone to buy our property here n Beulah & make a wildlife refuge out of it. We have so many deer & other animals.They have no where to go!
Deer Run is in the back of our property & all of those animals have came to us. We enjoy watching them so.much! There’s nothing like watching a momma deer with her little fawn.
But, ……we are also happy to have so many new business here! Growing up all we used to have was Mr.Twilleys little service station! Beulah has really grown up!!
Er uh, I meant Don et al…
Wow, Bob et al… you guys at ridiculous. Wawa will be a popular and welcome addition to our community.
Yes a gas station on every corner and marijuana in every pot we have achieved the American dream
You guys’ act like one gas station and we’re all of a sudden NYC lol calm down the gas station is not at some lonely country road out in the prairie lands it’s literally on LANDFILL ROAD i.e. Beulah rd.
That road is heavily traveled on a daily basis it used to be non-stop log truck, log truck, LOG TRUCK now we have COMMUNITIES growing in that direction and they need convenient food and gas that doesn’t require a 3-day road trip to get. The next largest source of traffic is GARBAGE TRUCKS and people going to the landfill.
Now days the traffic is school buses for the newly built school, Navy Fed employees going to and from work. Moms, Dands, kids going to and from their newly built homes. If you ask me seems yall are getting a better class of traffic so why all the complaints!!! Also @Susie if the traffic around that store is like that, I’m definitely going to see what’s so good XD
I remember when there was just a little beer joint at that intersection and they had the best hamburgers ever. If a gas station/convince ⛽️ store at every corner is what some we call
progress then we really are a bunch of rednecks..
One-stop For gas, beer, soda’s, coffee, chicken, pizza, cigarettes and whatever else our heart desires. Can’t wait for WAWA. Such a wonderful life.
Wawa is a superior gas station. Best gas station ever!!!
EMD, do you think WAWA is going to tele-port in special happy employees. It will be the same mad, miserable people who worked at Circle K…..
Let the best gas station win
REGARDING:
“Finally we can get rid of those pesky trees”
You were being sarcastic, but I remember people gazing on trees with absolute HATRED right after Ivan put so many of them on houses and cars.
(Not me, I’m a tree hugger, of course, even if they DON’T hug back.)
David for paper products
REGARDING:
“The whole world revolves around the few becoming more and more wealthy. Citizens and wildlife are not even considered”
Citizens being also known as potential customers, yes, they are very much considered. Those who provide what many want are often rewarded with money from those people.
David for rich wildlife
Yes! Wawa is a great establishment. Very cool to have one locally
Not just a gas station!! Best subs and stuffed pretzels!! I’ve been waiting a long time for this to happen! You will love their to-go food! ~Fresh and delicious!~ You will be missing out if you just go here for gas…there is so much more inside!
So 3 gas stations all in one tiny area… Planning board just missing the point of having a PLAN… Spread the gas stations out….
Jeff’s vision for Beulah is almost complete. The only thing missing is all the people standing at each corner begging for beer and drug money and all of the trash they leave behind. But that will be in due time and it will all look like Pensacola.
I know sadly you can’t stop so called progress. However I am so over all trees being cut down an then replace with trash trees. Trees an wildlife need to be considered an trees need to be saved. In a time when we have SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT shoved down our throats…maybe saving forest should be a priority.
Glad to hear it! Adding jobs is more important than
saving trees and wildlife.
Amen @EMD very well said. Although I want to add, I’ve seen the traffic first hand at many Wawa’s. If people in the good old Town of Pensacola think there’s traffic now wait ’til you see this!
Maybe you should have moved to Flomaton or Alaska if you wanted so much peace and quiet, instead of the edge of a growing city on the gulf coast like Pensacola. Stop being a NIMBY and buy the land yourself if you’re so concerned about it. If you’ve really been here that long, then you should have plenty of equity. So grumpy.
The whole world revolves arount the few becoming more and more wealthy. Citizens and wildlife are not even considered unless for pollitical and money reasons. I so long for a world where everyone WANTS to do the right thing. The real bill for all this so called “progress” is drawing near. Those that have no say are once more in more danger from yet another traffic nightmare. Maybe global warming IS a problem, but not from cow farts and vehicle emissions, but from all the asphalt and concrete and lack of trees and wildlife. I feel so sorry for those that fled to Beulah to escape this kind of overcrowding.
Build it…. They will come. Enjoy your Beulah country life/living
Well Henry and Klem ypu can continue to go to Circle K where they can’t clean the restrooms, have 3 day old chicken and rude cashiers. I will be going to WAWA.
Finally we can get rid of those pesky trees and move on to killing the wild life in the adjacent wet lands.
Another traffic nightmare. A third convenience store on the intersection. And goodbye to the trees and drainage that area provides. I see nothing positive about this.