Wawa 2024 and Beyond continues an aggressive campaign to open stores in other states even as it tweaks stores closer to home, writes Emma Dooling for Philadelphia Business Journal.

The Delaware County-founded convenience store chain closed its Headhouse Square store in downtown Philadelphia in July 2023 and repurposed other closed stores in the city, leaving five operating Wawas in the city.

There are plans for eight stores in Eastern North Carolina in 2024, with 80 planned in the next ten years.

Wawa is investing $280 million to open 40 stores in Kentucky in the next decade. The first ten arrive in 2025.

The hope is to open a store in suburban Nashville by 2025, Wawa’s first Tennessee location. The goal is for 40 Tennessee locations.

Over in Indiana, Wawa is eying at least 60 stores in the next ten years. The first stores will open in 2025.  

Ohio is getting 60 Wawas over the next eight to 10 years. 

Southern and coastal Georgia is expecting its first Wawa in 2024, with a potential for 20. 

Wawa non-traditional travel centers in new and established markets are still on the books, described by CEO Chris Gheysens as “Wawa on steroids.”

Find out more about Wawa’s 2024 and beyond plans in the Philadelphia Business Journal.