Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz also is looking at sites inside the Huntington city limits and off the Hurricane exit of Interstate 64, the report said. "We're [image-nocss] scouting other locations," Jones told the newspaper. "Right now, its' just the Huntington market."
Sheetz, which is very popular in Pennsylvania, is not well known in Huntington, except for those from north of Weston, W.Va. off Interstate 79 or West Virginia University students, said the report.
Jones said expansion has been slow in the past five years, mostly because of interior and exterior redesigns and additions to the foodservice menu. But the company saw the Huntington market as ripe.
"We've focused [recently] on North Carolina and Ohio. We haven't done any West Virginia expansion in while," she said. "We thought this was a great opportunity."
Sheetz currently operates more than 350 convenience locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina.
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