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New Convenience Store Planned For Highway 29 At Highway 97 In Molino
November 5, 2024
Plans are in the works once again for a new convenience store at the intersection of Highway 29 and Highway 97 in Molino.
Fikes Wholesale of Texas submitted the plans to the Escambia County Development Review Committee for a Casey’s Convenience Store.
This is associated with Casey’s, the third largest convenience store and fifth largest pizza chain in the US,” Casey’s Directo of Communications Katie Petru told Northescambia.com. She said a timetable for opening is not yet known since the project is in the very early stages.
Casey’s is a Fortune 500 company operating over 2,600 convenience stores. According to a July press release, Casey’s announced the acquisition of Files Wholesale, owner of CEFCO Convenience Stores, in an all-cash transaction for $1.145 billion for 198 stores.
Plans show the Casey’s in Molino to be 4,360 square feet with parking lot access from both Highway 29 southbound and Highway 97 north of the Crabtree Church Road intersection. The plans, which contain just one small low-quality image, appear to show six pumps in front of the store.
The Development Review Committee will hold a pre-application meeting on the project on Wednesday, November 6.
Plans were filed for a convenience store in the same location back in 2017 and 2019 by an Atmore company, but those projects were never finalized. The new store will be across Highway 97 from an existing Cumberland Farms store that is still operating under Tom Thumb branding.
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14 Responses to “New Convenience Store Planned For Highway 29 At Highway 97 In Molino”
“The image shows 95 and 97 rather than Hwy 29 and 97. So where are we talking?”
29 & 97 (like we labeled it). The smaller “95″ is from the developer’s drawing. Florida State Road 95 is Highway 29.
The image shows 95 and 97 rather than Hwy 29 and 97. So where are we talking?
Hope this will progress quickly. Need a grocery store to come soon too.
I couldn’t be happier that “something” is coming to open shop in Molino! It’s WAY over due.
Hopefully this will help keep people from turning left onto 97 and then slamming on brakes in front of you while they wait to get into the Tom Thumb.
This will make traffic coming off of Hwy-29 onto Hwy-97 even more hazardous, even for good drivers. Already too confusing for too many drivers. The exits are too close to the intersection.
Hope their employees Are better food servers. the servers at TomThumb aren’t very pleasant most of the time
My advice is have big restrooms. Tom Thumb is out dated and shoukd have been renovated years ago but they took advantage of it being the sole store for miles. Well not any more and about time.
They may have the best pizzas for a convince store, but I’m sure that they will not have the best fried chicken. That honor goes to the Tom Thumb!!
And slightly better for getting in and out of than Tom Thumb.
When we lived in Indiana, we had several around us, great prices
and great pizza!! I am excited about this!
Competition is a good thing for consumers.
This is Awesome!, they are all over the midwest and are a great store, they have the best pizzias for a convenice store.
Rut roh tom thumb!! Theres a new sheriff headed to town! Hopefully the new store doesn’t price gouge like you !!