In November 2023, we let you know that plans were submitted to convert the current site of 7-Eleven (15585 Old Columbia Pike) and the adjacent Mattress Warehouse (15595 Old Columbia Pike) in Burtonsville into a Wawa. Construction plans were approved on Thursday for what will be Montgomery County’s second Wawa.
Wawa is a gas station and convenience store that also offers made-to-order food. The initial development application for Wawa was accepted by Montgomery Planning on Tuesday, November 21st 2023. On June 26, 2024, Dong Ya, LLC and Hong Cheng LLC (“Applicant”) filed Preliminary Plan No. 120240160, Site Plan No. 820240170, and Forest Conservation Plan No. F20240210 (“Project”). The county’s first Wawa opened in March in Gaithersburg. Plans for that location materialized in early 2019, but Wawa didn’t open until approximately five years. Specific dates for construction and opening timeframes are not yet available for the Burtonsville location.
Per the planning documents: “The Applicant proposes to create one 3.36 net acre lot and demolish the existing structures to construct a new 5,919 square foot Wawa convenience store/restaurant, automobile filling station, 50 parking spaces, redesigned driveway access, landscaping, and other site-related improvements. The Project will include up to nine electric vehicle charging stations. The Project will also provide two landscaped and shaded public open space areas with tables and seating areas…