A new year-round fireworks store is open in the State College area. What you should know
A new permanent fireworks store is now open in College Township.
Wholesale Fireworks, which carries about 350 different products, opened Saturday at 2000 E. College Ave., the former Sheetz site at the corner of Pike Street and East College Avenue. The year-round location sells fireworks ranging from run-of-the-mill sparklers to 500-gram repeaters that would look right at home in a professional show.
The hours of operation are subject to change but, at this time of summer, the 5,000-square-foot store is open seven days a week — from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday.
Wholesale Fireworks was founded in Kansas more than 20 years ago and boasts a presence in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia. It has more than 30 year-round locations and counts four such stores now in the Keystone State.
“We are expanding throughout Pennsylvania,” added marketing director Jessica Benford.
Plans for a local fireworks shop were submitted back in November 2021 by a different fireworks chain, Kansas-based Jake’s Fireworks, in what would’ve been their first Pennsylvania store. It wasn’t immediately known what transpired — or the relationship between the two chains — that Wholesale Fireworks opened there instead.
Officials from both Jake’s Fireworks and Wholesale Fireworks declined to comment on the change to the CDT. However, both chains sell the same brand of consumer fireworks, called “World Class Fireworks.”
For more information on Wholesale Fireworks, or to check out their products, go to wholesalefireworks.com.
