Walmart Gasoline Beneath Building
The huge banner on the development fence couldn’t be any much less delicate — “COMING SOON, YOUR NEW WALMART FUEL STATION” (photograph).
The underutilized northeast portion of the Wesley Chapel Walmart’s parking zone (straight behind Chase Financial institution) on S.R. 54 (east of Bruce B. Downs Blvd., or BBD) is being reworked into the following helpful function of the favored retailer.
Last website plan revisions for the gasoline station addition had been submitted to the county again in January of 2024, however nothing transpired for nearly a yr and a half, so it was unclear when, or even when, the station would ever come to fruition.
That query has been answered, as the development is now taking place at breakneck pace. Walmart hadn’t even fenced the realm off just some months in the past, however now, the large gas tanks are on the brink of be buried, the station’s cover is about half carried out, and the comfort retailer is just about completed. At this tempo, it seems that the brand new gasoline station, with 18 fueling positions (making it the most important such station in Wesley Chapel), might be carried out in a number of months.
Along with the gasoline pumps, the station will function a really tiny and attention-grabbing 440-sq.-ft. comfort retailer. From what we are able to inform from the constructing plan and this photograph, the tiny retailer can have two exterior restrooms to the rear of the constructing, with roll-up doorways on the facet of the constructing that may defend what seems to be show doorways that may open outward which is able to doubtless include drinks and snacks. It’s unclear, nevertheless, if you’ll even be capable of go inside the shop to make your purchases or if all the pieces might be carried out from the surface. We’ve by no means seen something fairly prefer it earlier than. It’s definitely nothing like the total comfort retailer on the New Tampa Walmart on BBD.
Along with these options, the plan additionally proposes so as to add a brand new proper flip lane into the Walmart’s northern driveway on southbound Wiregrass Ranch Blvd., which ought to hopefully scale back conflicts for motorists who solely wish to entry the brand new gasoline station.
Sam’s Membership Growth Not Taking place?
Contemplating that the 2 shops are run by the identical firm, is the Sam’s Membership on S.R. 56 getting its desperately wanted gas growth subsequent? Sadly, plainly it’s not more likely to be taking place anytime quickly, because the plans for that growth had been withdrawn from the county by the developer in January of this yr.
We had beforehand reported — again in the summertime of 2023 — that Sam’s Membership representatives had met with the county to broaden the shop’s current gasoline station from 12 fueling positions to 16, which would come with including two extra fueling lanes and a redesign to make issues run smoother, as the present location and design of the station causes backups on the entry roadway (which generally prolong out onto S.R. 56) in entrance of the primary Sam’s Membership parking zone.
Engineering plans had been submitted the next yr, and the county gave feedback, however it seems that the plan is off the desk for now.
