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Convenience store chain Sheetz announced Wednesday that it will build a distribution and food manufacturing facility in Burlington and create 254 jobs by 2018.
The Pennsylvania company was awarded a state incentives package this morning worth nearly $2 million if it meets hiring and investment goals.
Sheetz plans to invest $32.8 million in the facility, which will support the company's growing number of stores in Virginia and North Carolina.
The company employs more than 14,500 employees and operates 429 stores in six states, including 46 in North Carolina. Most of its stores in North Carolina are concentrated in the Triangle and the Triad.
Sheetz also received incentives packages from the city of Burlington and Alamance County.
Burlington will provide infrastructure and transportation improvements on the vacant industrial site where the facility will be built.
Alamance is providing Sheetz a grant for $1.12 million to be paid in annual installments of $160,000 beginning in 2014 after the company has built the facility and hired at least 210 full-time employees.
Convenience store chain Sheetz is proposing to build a large distribution facility in Burlington that would create 253 jobs over the next five years.
Burlington and Alamance County officials will vote Tuesday on incentives packages that would be worth more than $1 million to the company if it meets hiring and investment goals.
The state is also offering incentives to the Pennsylvania-based company, said Craig Honeycutt, Alamance’s town manager.
Sheetz would invest $32 million building a new facility on a vacant industrial site in Burlington.
Burlington would provide infrastructure and transportation improvements on the site, Honeycutt said.
Alamance would provide Sheetz a grant for $1.12 million to be paid in annual installments of $160,000 beginning in 2014 after the company has built the facility and hired at least 210 full-time employees. About 40 existing Sheetz employees would be transferred to the Burlington location from a facility out of state.
Sheetz has been searching for a site that would serve its growing collection of stores in the state. The company operates 429 stores in six states, including 46 in North Carolina.
Of the 30 new stores Sheetz expects to open this year, 10 will be in North Carolina. Most of its stores in the state are concentrated in the Triangle and the Triad.
Sheetz’s expansion plans for North Carolina include opening a large distribution facility by 2014 to serve its increasing collection of convenience stores.
The Pennsylvania chain will begin looking for a location during the next six months, in a place that makes it easy to reach the Triangle and Triad, where most of its stores in this state are concentrated, CEO Stan Sheetz said in a phone interview today.
Sheetz will either buy an existing building, or build new, with at least 200,000 square feet to hold a distribution center, office facility and bakery.
The company expects to seek local or state incentives to help pay for the project, which will create about 200 jobs.
“You’d be crazy not to,” he added. “It’s a positive thing for North Carolina.”
Get ready for more Sheetz.
The Pennsylvania-based convenience-store chain is planning further expansion in North Carolina, with plans to open about 10 new stores a year in this state.
“We picked North Carolina because it has one of the fastest growing populations in the country and the weather is mild most of the year," vice president Joe Sheetz told the Altoona Monitor. "You also get a lot of long-distance commuters."
The Altoona, Pa.-based company has 394 stores, with more than half in Pennsylvania. The chain has plans to hit the 500 mark in three years, with North Carolina and West Virginia the prime targets for expansion.
