Daily News | A history of Wawa’s on-again, off-again relationship with Center City
Police recorded 10 violent incidents at Center City Wawas in September 1989, including one store that was reportedly robbed three times by the same person. That’s when the company abandoned plans to keep its store at Broad and Race open 24 hours.
This was just months after the Wawa at 11th and Arch was closed when the company determined that neither employees nor customers at that location felt safe at any time of day. “We don’t hesitate to close a store or a shift if we feel a site is too dangerous or difficult for our employees, no matter how much money we are making there,” Price, then the company’s executive vice president, said at the time.Wawa closed several Center City locations“It makes me want to move,” Jordan Marks, who lived at 19th and Spruce, told The Inquirer when the store closed. “This is what keeps me in the neighborhood. Forget Rittenhouse: Where’s the Wawa?” Company spokesperson Lori Bruce at the time said those closings were “not unique to Center City” and called the decisions tough. “Any time we close a store, it’s emotional. You know that song, ‘Breaking Up is Hard to Do’? It’s like that,” she said.Larry Steinberg, a longtime Center City retail-leasing professional, said in 2012.But in 2012 the company introduced a redesign at the 17th and Arch store, which had been open for 35 years. The location doubled to 5,000 square feet, and“It really is a shock to hear that they’re reinvesting,” Larry Steinberg, a longtime Center City retail-leasing professional, said in 2012. “I have not seen any new [Wawa] leases in the last, I don’t know, eight years? So this would be a major turning point.”
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