Dick’s Sporting Goods, La-Z-Boy Furniture, Noodles & Company, GetGo and more all have opened within the last few months at the Cranberry Crossroads development on Route 228, but construction near Cranberry’s latest shopping plaza isn’t done yet.

Cranberry planning officials are reviewing plans submitted by ECHO Realty, the Pittsburgh-based real estate company that developed the complex, for Cranberry Crossroads West.

Plans for the anticipated space include 12,106 square feet of retail space and a 5,500 square foot restaurant on 4.4 acres of property located adjacent to the Cranberry Crossroads shopping complex.

The proposed multi-tenant retail space would abut the La-Z-Boy furniture store, according to Ron Henshaw, Cranberry’s director of community development. The restaurant would be located in a separate building in front of the complex.  

Already, the developers have a potential leaseholder for the restaurant.

Anthony’s Coal-Fired Pizza, which features “well-done” pizzas, wings and other Italian dished cooked on an 800-degree coal-burning oven, has submitted a liquor license transfer application to the township for the space. The hearing for that transfer is expected to take place at the Cranberry Board of Supervisors meeting on March 27.

Planning Advisory Commission members on Monday reviewed plans for Cranberry Crossroads West at their workshop meeting with the expectation of voting on whether to green light the development at their next meeting at 6 p.m. Monday March 4. The plans then would move on to the Cranberry Board of Supervisors for final approval.

However, Henshaw recommend the planning commission hold off on giving their stamp of approval to the plans until the developers work though several design challenges, specifically how the new development—and its streetscape enhancements—would tie in with the current Cranberry Crossroads complex.

“It is important for you to be able to see how that is going to look and feel and run together in a way that makes sense,” Henshaw said to commission members Monday.  

Other challenges include figuring out how Mackenzie Way, the route leading between the La-Z-Boy furniture store and the separate complex containing the Noodles & Company and Verizon stores, will tie in with McElroy Road, which is scheduled to be vacated once PennDOT has built new ramps leading from Route 228 to Interstate 79.

Henshaw said the township plans to meet with the developers later this week to discuss the concerns in more detail.

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