College Township to review sketch plans for latest Wawa. Here’s an early look

College Township’s planning commission is set to get a first look at an early proposal for what could be Centre County’s fourth Wawa, located on a site that could also include retail and restaurant spaces.

According to the sketch plans, which are included in the agenda for the commission’s Tuesday meeting, Montoursville-based Welteroth Property Group would like to develop a 6,557-square-foot Wawa at an empty commercial redevelopment site at 1246 E. College Avenue, at the intersection with Squirrel Drive.

The latest Wawa was originally unveiled at a community event in September 2025, but this is the first time that the township will see actual development plans for the gas station.

Included in the plans are eight fuel pumps, and access from both of the roadways. East College Avenue’s entrance will provide full access to the site, barring a left-turn exit from the gas station onto the avenue. Squirrel Drive will also be widened to include a right turn lane onto the avenue.

The concept development also “may include” a 7,200-square-foot, two-story commercial building, located directly next to the gas station, according to the agenda, and a 3,600-square-foot restaurant with a drive-thru.

The document also shared that retaining walls will be used to meet the township’s grade requirements and that sidewalks will be constructed to provide pedestrian access to East College Avenue and Squirrel Drive. A traffic impact study has already been prepared for the project and that stormwater will be managed via underground stormwater facilities.

Because the plans on Tuesday’s agenda are only sketch plans, commission members will not take any action — they can, however, provide Wawa’s developers with feedback on the plan.

According to the document, after the sketch plan is reviewed by the commission and the township’s council, both phases of the project — Wawa and the commercial building — will be submitted as one preliminary land development plan.

The final plans for the Wawa will be submitted immediately after the preliminary plan is approved, and the commercial building’s final plans will be submitted when tenant commitments for the building are locked in. The preliminary plan is expected to be submitted this summer, and construction is “anticipated to begin in 2027.”

College Township’s Wawa could be the fourth in Centre County by the time it’s constructed — the first will be located along the Benner Pike, directly across from Sheetz. Ground broke in December, and Benner Township Zoning Officer Mike Lesniak said then that the location could open in late spring or early summer.

The county’s other two proposed Wawa locations were revealed through the submission of development plans, and will be located at the former Snappy’s in Centre Hall and the former Sutliff Buick GMC Cadillac dealership and Delaney Collision Center along West Aaron Drive in Ferguson Township, although timelines for both have yet to be shared.