BEAVERCREEK — Sheetz gas station opened its newest Miami Valley location today.
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The new Sheetz is located at the 4200 block of Colonel Glenn Highway in Beavercreek.
It marks the tenth Sheetz gas station that has opened in the Miami Valley in the last year and the second in Beavercreek.
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As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, customers like Todd Morgan like what the expansion is doing for his pockets.
“I think it’s good because it’s – I think it’s making gas prices more competitive,” Morgan said.
Morgan also said these places are becoming more than just places to get gas.
“If you asked me a couple of years ago, ‘Hey, you want to go grab some food – a gas station.’ I would tell you absolutely not,” Morgan said. “But now it’s an option.”
The new location makes it three in Greene County.
“Everyone has been so welcoming and so gracious,” Becca Bunnell, a Sheetz employee, said.
As News Center 7 previously reported, Beavercreek City Council put a 97-day moratorium on gas stations in August. That means they won’t be accepting any more applications to build new gas stations.
This new Sheetz location had its application approved before the moratorium. Moving forward, Sheetz will have to look somewhere else to construct new gas stations.
The chain’s goal was to add 20 new locations to the Miami Valley. The opening of their tenth today means they’re halfway through their 2022 plan.
“Just keep on growing, keep on expanding,” Bunnell said. “Really bringing that footprint over into this area of Ohio and just keeping on moving forward.”
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