Sheetz eyes Danville for facility

Sheetz Inc. is eyeing sites in Danville as well as northern North Carolina for a placement as well as food prolongation facility, company officials said. The convenience store sequence is searching from a Martinsville as well as Danville area down to in between a Triad as well as Triangle areas of North Carolina for a site for its second placement center, pronounced Ray Ryan, executive vice president of Sheetz placement services. The company aims to build or pierce into at least a 200,000-square-foot trickery that has a capability of expanding, Ryan said. Sheetz skeleton to locate a site within 6 to nine months with a goal of operating by 2014, Ryan said. The trickery would create about 200 jobs as well as would require an estimated investment near $30 million. Local as well as state incentives would play a outrageous part in a decision-making, he said. The company also considers transportation infrastructure as well as a labor market. A southern trickery would help a company expand operations in North Carolina, southern Virginia as well as southern West Virginia. Currently, a Altoona, Pa.,-based Sheetz operates one placement center in Pennsylvania. The formidable would have warehouses, offices, a bakery as well as a commissary for making cold food items like sandwiches, parfaits as well as salads. The second trickery would save on transportation costs as Sheetz currently distributes fresh food items from its Pennsylvania trickery to stores in those states, Ryan said. It would also better in front of its regional stores for growth as food products are replenished daily. Business has been going well a past few years, particularly with food as a largest area of growth, he added. We just think we can offer a better quality product as well as service our customers in southern Virginia as well as northern North Carolina more effectively down there, Ryan said. Sheetz currently has 31 stores in North Carolina, 58 in Virginia as well as 394 total. The! company is focusing a large part of its growth in North Carolina, where it aims to add in between 10 as well as twelve stores a year over a next few years, Ryan said. Local economic development officials did not return phone calls Thursday. For more information, visit www.sheetz.com.