DICKSON CITY — Making way for a Wawa, a developer in recent weeks demolished a small strip mall at the corner of Main Street and Viewmont Drive.
Demolition of the former Lackawanna Executive Park is a step toward bringing a Wawa to that site. Efforts Tuesday to reach Jim Marzolino, the manager of the Lackawanna Executive Park Dickson LLC, were unsuccessful. Prior activity in this project involved conducting a traffic study with the borough for the site that recommended timing improvements and an additional turning lane from Main Street onto Viewmont Drive.
Debris is left over from the demolition of Lackawanna Executive Park on Main Ave. in Dickson City Tuesday, January 6, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Elsewhere in Dickson City, Marzolino also manages a project to develop a site pad for a Wawa along Cold Spring Road on Bell Mountain just above Business Route 6.
Three other, separate proposals for Wawas elsewhere in Lackawanna County involve other developers and are in various stages of planning or progress. They include: a project underway in Scranton at Moosic Street and Meadow Avenue in South Side; one eyed for Carbondale Twp. along Meredith and Main streets across from an existing Sheetz; and another Wawa proposed in Covington Twp., near Drinker Turnpike and Bochicchio Boulevard near North Pocono High School.
It’s not clear which of these five Wawa locations might become the first to open in Lackawanna County for the Southern Pennsylvania-based gas station and convenience store chain, as it expands north to compete against rival Sheetz, which already has six stores in the county.
The proposal for a Wawa in South Scranton by NDA Moosic LLC of Vestal, New York, was the first of the five potential Wawa locations in Lackawanna County to arise, around four years ago. In 2022, NDA Moosic LLC received Scranton zoning approval for a Wawa on the 5-acre site at 1130-36 Moosic St. and 117 Meadow Ave., as well as an Aldi grocery store on a rear portion of that property. Over the past year, the Wawa project in Scranton involved demolition of a vacant building at 1130 Moosic St. that years ago was a Profera’s Pizza and later Electric City Hot Yoga; as well as environmental cleanup of contaminated soil at the former industrial tract in South Side. The status of remediation or when construction of either a Wawa or Aldi might start there also are unclear. Efforts to reach this project developer Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Scranton City Planner Don King said he had not been in contact with the developer but remediation, grading and preparation of the site has visibly progressed in recent months.
“They have all their permits and everything,” King said. “It looks like they have the site work done and they’re all ready to go.”
Wawa’s current northernmost locations are in Wilkes-Barre Twp. in Luzerne County and several in Monroe County.
A chain of over 1,110 convenience stores, of which over 900 offer gasoline, Wawa has stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Washington, D.C., according to a company fact sheet.