Another Wawa is coming to Central Kentucky; where the latest site is planned
A new development coming to the Nicholasville Bypass will bring the city a second Wawa.
Keene Landings, at the corner of Keene Road and the U.S. 27 Bypass, will also offer several restaurants.
Pat Madden, who is developing the property with Brett Setzer of Brett Construction, said the new shopping center will have a Panera with a drive-thru, a Chipotle Mexican Restaurant with a “Chipot-lane” pick-up window and a Cattlemen’s Roadhouse sit-down restaurant.
Plans for the site also include an unnamed coffee shop with a drive-thru as well as a four other retail stores, a bank and a fitness center also are planned on the 20-acre property.
There also is a spot for a potential 20,000-square-foot grocery store.
Madden said the Panera, Chipotle and Cattlemen’s Roadhouse could be completed and open later this year.
The Wawa, a convenience store known as much for its subs and coffee as its clean bathrooms, likely won’t open until 2026.
In June 2024, Wawa broke ground on its first Nicholasville store at 3013 Lexington Rd. in Nicholasville, also known as U.S. 27, and Vince Road near Catnip Hill Road and just down the road from the popular Brannon Crossing shopping center.
The Pennsylvania-based chain broke ground on a Louisville store at 9650 Preston Crossing Blvd.
Both stores are expected to open this summer.
Three more locations are expected to open in the fall of 2025 at 900 E. Main St. in Georgetown, 4314 Bardstown Road in Louisville and 1354 Veterans Parkway in Clarksville, Ind., in the Louisville market.
Lexington city officials gave the green light to a Wawa for a new Anderson Communities development at 4075 Old Richmond Road, across from Jacobson Park. So far, that’s the only Lexington location that has been identified.
Construction on the Lexington Wawa is contingent on the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s completion of a reworking of the intersection.
According to the company, Wawa plans to open nine stores in Kentucky in 2025, building up eventually to as many as 40 in the state.
