Sheetz in Ellwood?

    November 4th 1987, Ellwood City property owners and business people debated a request from Sheetz Inc. to build a convenience store in the borough at the northeast corner of Fifth Street and Fountain Avenue. Arguments against the proposed convenience store pointed out the possible impact on traffic patterns, noise, gasoline fumes, and the effect on the residential atmosphere of the area. Additional arguments stated that there were already seventeen service stations in Ellwood City which were locally owned and the $75,000 per month Sheetz expected to make from gasoline sales would be “taken from local owners and will not be spent here but will go to Altoona”
    Obviously the request from Sheetz Inc. was not approved and fast food chain McDonalds would later purchase the property and continues operation there today.

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