Supervisors Clear Way For New Wawa On Lincoln Highway (ICYMI)

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — Supervisors in Falls have rezoned the area around the old Pathmark shopping center on Old Lincoln Highway to clear the way for a new Wawa and in hopes of bringing new business to the site.

The Falls Township Board of Supervisors voted Monday to rezone part of the shopping center, at 500 Lincoln Highway, to allow for other businesses. The roughly two-acre area rezoned is where Arosso, A Touch of Sicily is located.

It will allow the Arosso building to be demolished to make way for the new Wawa, which would have eight fuel pumps, according to shopping center attorney Julie Von Spreckelsen. The restaurant would then move to a location inside the shopping center.

"These are old buildings," Von Spreckelsen said. "They've been there for decades."

Falls supervisors approved the rezoning after a brief hearing. No one from the public spoke in favor or against it during the virtual meeting.

Von Spreckelsen told the board that the roughly 190,000-square-foot shopping center has struggled to keep tenants since Pathmark closed. After losing their anchor tenant, the property's owners made improvements, but still have 60,000 square feet of vacancies, she said.

The former location of Pathmark — where Funzilla is now located — took three years to fill.

"We're trying to repurpose this center," Von Spreckelsen said.