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LIMERICK PA – It’s arrived.
Grand opening week for the Costco Warehouse Corp. wholesale store in the Gateway At Sanatoga shopping center, 14 W. Lightcap Rd., Limerick PA, is upon us, and apparently none too soon for some potential shoppers. Google, the Internet’s largest search engine, indicates thousands of people have searched for information on the event in the past month alone.
- The official opening is Wednesday (Aug. 17, 2011) at 8 a.m. Commuters who regularly travel U.S. Route 422 and enter or exit at the Sanatoga interchange between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. may want to reconsider and instead use either the Armand Hammer Boulevard (to the west) or Limerick-Linfield (to the east) interchanges to avoid possible traffic congestion. Drivers can anticipate an increased police presence in the area to ensure safety.
- A by-invitation-only preview opening of the store, limited to only a few hundred people who received printed announcements titled “Please be our guest” during mid-July, will be held Tuesday (Aug. 16) from 6-8 p.m. Only those presenting invitations are expected to be allowed inside. Hors d’oeuvres will be served (lucky you!).
- Costco is a membership-only discount store, meaning customers there must first purchase a membership to shop there. A membership sales tent has been open on the parking lot outside the store for the last three weeks, and three different levels of membership are being sold there daily. For information about how the program works, call 800-774-2678.
- Costco has an accompanying gasoline station, on the parking lot located west of its main building. Manager Scott Riekers reports that, although the store itself isn’t open yet, the gas station has been operating from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. since last Wednesday (Aug. 10). National studies indicate prices for gas sold by wholesalers such as Costco and BJ’s Warehouse usually are among the lowest available in most markets but, again, sales are limited to members only.
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- Limerick Costco’s Tentative Opening Planned For Aug. 17
- Costco Open By Aug. 28 (Maybe); Surest Sign: Hiring Now
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- Costco Construction Still Aiming For A Spring Opening
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- Ground Clearing Begins At Sanatoga “Gateway”
- Developer Sets New Costco Date: Spring 2011
- New Activity Stirs For Gateway At Sanatoga Project
- Costco Approved Without Traffic Improvements (WhatsThe422.com)
- Sanatoga Gateway Endorsed By Limerick Planners (WhatsThe422.com)
- Sanatoga Project Faces Limerick Zoning Decisions
- Sanatoga Shopping Project On Limerick Zoning Agenda
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- Lobbyists Court Lower Pottsgrove
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Costco Gas Prices $ 3:31 PER GALLON REGULAR.
Nearly 30 Cents Cheaper!
It would have been nice to know in advance. I haven’t seen anything in the newspaper for this. And why is it called “Sanatoga Springs” ? Last I checked it was Sanatoga. We are not a rich fancy community. And if your from the area, you wont call it anything but Sanatoga.
I’m assuming you’re new to The Sanatoga Post, so there’s no way you could know we’ve been publishing stories about the opening once every couple of weeks since April. I hope that was enough in advance. Many folks thought it was overkill, and they may be right, but search phrase traffic indicated that – just like yours – there was high interest in the topic.
The newspaper did carry stories on the forthcoming opening, though not as frequently.
“Sanatoga Springs” was the shopping center developer’s fanciful name for the project. It didn’t resonate with the public (much like it didn’t resonate with you). The project was later renamed to “Gateway At Sanatoga.” That didn’t win many converts, either; you’re right, most people just think of it as Sanatoga.
However, Costco – which ended up buying from the developer the property on which the store is built, had already internally labeled it as “Sanatoga Springs,” even though it is at the 1) Sanatoga interchange and 2) within the Pottstown zip code, and 3) inside Limerick PA Township. Bureaucracy wins; Sanatoga Springs it officially is. That’s also why Costco’s website domain for the Sanatoga-Pottstown-Limerick store is “www.sanatogasprings.com.” And, by the way, the entrance to Costco’s parking lot is named “Sanatoga Springs Road.”
GPS manufacturers are going to have fits.