2502 N 50th St
Tampa, FL 33619

Wawa, Inc., a privately held company, began in 1803 as an iron foundry in New Jersey. Today, Wawa is your all day, every day stop for fresh, built-to-order foods, beverages, fuel services, and surcharge-free ATMs. A chain of more than 720 convenience retail stores (over 450 offering gasoline), Wawa stores are located in PA, NJ, DE, MD, VA and FL. The PA-based company has reached 50 locations in Florida only two years after entering the state. Wawa plans on Florida being a 250-plus store state for the company and is actively signing deals and developing sites in South Florida. Tampa serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County and is located on the west coast of Florida, on Tampa Bay near the Gulf of Mexico. Tampa is part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida metropolitan statistical. The four-county area is composed of roughly 2.7 million residents, making it the second largest MSA in the state, and the fourth largest in the Southeastern United States. The Greater Tampa Bay area has just over 4 million residents and generally includes the Tampa and Sarasota metro areas. The Tampa Bay Partnership and U.S. Census data showed an average annual growth of 2.47 percent, or a gain of approximately 97,000 residents per year, and hit the 4 million people mark on April 1, 2007. Tampa has a number of sports teams, some of which play their home games in neighboring St. Petersburg, Florida.