New Hatfield Wawa Opens, Complete With Hoagie Building Contest

HATFIELD, PA - Hatfield-area residents who “gottahava Wawa” can now do so at one more location.

One of Wawa’s newest stores opened Friday at 1900 N. Broad St., complete with tee-shirt giveaways and a Hoagies for Heroes hoagies building competition featuring local first responders.

Benefiting the Officer William J. Chapman Memorial Fund, the Hatfield Township Police Department won the competition with 23 hoagies made in three minutes, the department said.

You can view a video recap of the grand opening festivities below:

The Hatfield location joins Wawa newcomer locations in Fairless Hills (530 Lincoln Highway) and Doylestown (3659 N. Easton Road) that also opened this spring. The new location also joins two other Hatfield-area Wawa stores at 2480 Bethlehem Pike and 200 Forty Foot Road.

Wawa plans to open 76 new stores throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and Florida in 2023. In fact, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens told the Philadelphia Business Journal last year that the company plans to open another 1,800 locations in states across the U.S. There are already close to 250 locations in Pennsylvania.

Wawa's future expansion plans include stores with travel centers — "Wawa on steroids," Gheysens told the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia's 2023 Economic Outlook last January.

Gheysens first hinted last April at opening travel centers, telling the Business Journal that the company plans to nearly double its store count and operate about 1,800 locations by 2030. The plan involves new locations in existing markets and expansion into new states.Related article: 'Wawa On Steroids': Chain Could Bring 'Travel Centers' To NJ, PA

The opening of travel centers will likely take five years, a Wawa spokesperson told NBC10 Philadelphia. The facilities will be bigger than typical Wawa stores and located in more high-profile locations on major highways, such as Interstate 95, which has a lengthy stretch in the Garden State.

Wawa first opened in April 1964 in Delaware County. There are currently over 1,000 locations located across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., North Carolina and Florida.

- With additional reporting by Michelle Rotuno-Johnson and Josh Bakan.