"Upscale Grocery Store"?!?!?!?

Check out the article below that Sarah Mausolf wrote in today's Express-Times. Looks like once again the Township was sold a bill of goods about an "upscale grcoery store" coming into the Township, which of course the 3-D's (Supervisors Don Miller, David Hoff and David Howell) bought hook, line and sinker.

Well, maybe if Weiss Markets doesn't work out Aldi will take the space.

Way to go "3 to 2 get's it through" boys! Once again you did a super job.....NOT!

And to think, these same boys will soon be hiring the third town manager in five years. Better get the severance package ready now!
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FORKS TWP. | Developers submitted preliminary plans this week to the township for a supermarket at Sullivan Trail and Uhler Road.

Weis Markets is among three grocers that have expressed interest in the location, said Rose Randazzo, an attorney for Pittston, Pa., developer SamCar.

Randazzo said the developers hope to secure a tenant within 60 days at the earliest.

Plans show a 68,983-square-foot food market with an 8,600-square-foot expansion on about 9.2 acres in the southeast corner of the intersection. A parking lot includes 377 spaces. Gasoline pumps are also part of the plan.

The plan lists Weis Market Forks Inc. as the developer, but Randazzo said that's a mistake on the drawing.

"Weis is definitely someone who expressed an interest to us, but we also had several other grocers who expressed an interest as well," she said. "At this point, we don't have anyone committed to the project."

Planner Dean Turner said he expects to hear a presentation during the commission's September meeting. He said he's interested in how the developers will handle traffic.

"That's a very busy intersection, and it needs to be looked at very closely to figure out the best way to get traffic in all the directions it needs to go," he said.

In July, supervisors decided to allow supermarkets in the employment center zoning district where the project will stand.

Developers previously proposed a CVS drug store on the same property. The land is in the Sullivan Trail Business Park.

Reporter Sarah Mausolf can be reached at 610-258-7171 or by e-mail at smausolf@express-times.com.