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Cumberland Farms Execs Bullish on Apponaug Four Corners Store


Warwick, RI – Mayor Scott Avedisian walked the new Apponaug Four Corners Cumberland Farms at 3335 Post Road with local managers Friday morning, getting a look at the latest business to take advantage of the Apponaug Circulator Project‘s promised travel improvements.

From left, John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, and Mayor Scott Avedisian walk up from an overflow parking lot on Post Road at Cumberland Farms' new Apponaug Four Corners location.
From left, John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, and Mayor Scott Avedisian walk up from an overflow parking lot on Post Road at Cumberland Farms\’ new Apponaug Four Corners location.

The Historic Commission approved Cumberland Farms, Inc.’s plans to demolish the old Gulf gas station and purchase the adjacent lot in March 2014, according to the Mayor’s office.

The new 4,513 square-foot building boasts architectural features in keeping with the guidelines established for the historic neighborhood. The property also includes site walls to create a “street edge” making the location more pedestrian friendly.

From left, John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, Warwick Tourism Director Karen Jedson, and Mayor Scott Avedisian talk about Cumberland Farms' new Apponaug Four Corners location.
From left, John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, Warwick Tourism Director Karen Jedson, and Mayor Scott Avedisian talk about Cumberland Farms\’ new Apponaug Four Corners location.

John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, said the company sought to build at the site in anticipation of the lot becoming more accessible at the end of the RIDOT’s three-year, $29.9 million project.

“When this is all done, we’re hoping people will be able to take a left turn out of here,” Wilbur said. That’s problematic with today’s traffic. Richard Crenca, principal planner for Warwick, said 26,000 cars per day travel through Apponaug presently.

The entire project, which will put roundabouts at Apponaug Four Corners, the Centerville Road and Tollgate Road intersection, the Greenwich Avenue and Veteran’s Memorial Drive intersection, and the Veterans Memorial Drive and Post Road Extension intersection, is expected to be complete in 2017.

When the project is finished, and the three major roundabouts and two smaller roundabouts (including the one at Apponaug Four corners), are finished, traffic that’s just traveling through Apponaug can keep rolling through, while only traffic intent on business in Apponaug will flow past the Cumberland Farms at Apponaug Four Corners.

At that point, only 5,000 cars per day will be passing the new Cumberland Farms, Crenca said. Dino DeThomas, chief of real estate with Cumberland Farms, isn’t worried about losing all that traffic, …”because it will allow people easier access,” he said.

John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, and Mayor Scott Avedisian talk in the new Apponaug Four Corners Cumberland Farms outdoor picnic area.
John Wilbur, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, and Mayor Scott Avedisian talk in the new Apponaug Four Corners Cumberland Farms outdoor picnic area.
Rob Borkowski
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Rob has worked as reporter and editor for several publications, including The Kent County Daily Times and Coventry Courier, before working for Gatehouse in MA then moving home with Patch Media. Now he's publisher and editor of WarwickPost.com. Contact him at [email protected] with tips, press releases, advertising inquiries, and concerns.

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