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American convenience store and gas station chain, Sheetz, has moved into Selma as a part of the Johnston County town’s new 435-acre development, Eastfield. The location’s grand opening was Tuesday, Aug. 11.
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Created by AdVenture Development, LLC, the “Live-Work-Play” development will residentially contain 211 single-family homes, a senior living community, and Quincy at Eastfield, a 348-unit multifamily community currently under construction. Commercial projects include a 500,000-square-foot shopping center, anchored by a new 129,000-square-foot Target, The News & Observer previously reported.
The “work” portion of the development is anchored by the Eastfield Business Park Building 100, home to Veetee, a microwaveable rice meal kit company and the Triangle East Collaborative Center, a former JR’s Retail Outlet that now houses a number of other small and mid-sized businesses.
“This Eastfield location employs 30 people, offering competitive pay and benefits packages to all employees,” Byron McAllister, Selma’s mayor, said in a press release. “Selma is proud to welcome the exemplary family-owned and family-grown success of the SHEETZ family.” Sheetz currently operates more than 830 locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. The family-owned and operated business was founded in 1952 by Bob Sheetz in Pennsylvania.
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The Eastfield development has been in the works since 2019, said AdVenture Developments President Kevin Dougherty.
This is not the first major convenience store to pop up in local cities. In June, The News & Observer reported that Buc-ee’s broke ground on its first travel center in North Carolina.
In May, The N&O reported that gas stations across Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham counties were flagged for problems at the pump by inspectors with the Standards Division of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
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