An artist's rendering of the facade for Bella Italia Pizza that will face East High Street in Sanatoga. It received conditional use approval Monday.
SANATOGA PA – Bella Italia Pizza, which is the working name for an Italian restaurant proposed to be built at 2209 E. High St., Pottstown PA, on currently vacant land west of the Rite-Aid Pharmacy, is only the latest of several ventures of its owner, Cilluffo Property Holdings LLC.
Representative Mary Cilluffo, whose father Vito heads the business, on Monday (March 1, 2010) told the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners her company has developed restaurants across Pennsylvania and New Jersey during the past 30 years. “We look for properties like this one that we think will make good locations,” she said.
The building's west elevation would face an adjacent parking lot.
The sit-down-and-eat-in restaurant will be the primary fixture in the small plaza that would be built on the property, if ultimately accepted by commissioners. The 4,500-square-foot building also would house two 1,000-square-foot offices whose target tenants would be small, upscale businesses, Cilluffo added.
To ensure the building’s facade blended with the character of Sanatoga’s award-winning village district plan, its finish and style includes stone, large windows, and a small tower. An open-air seating patio has been proposed to include a fountain. Architectural renderings of the building’s south (facing East High Street) and west elevations were provided to the board.
Commissioners unanimously approved a conditional use for the restaurant in what is a limited commercial and office zone. In coming weeks they also must sign off on Cilluffo’s land development plans before construction can begin.
The company is headquartered at 1742 Talbot Rd., Blue Bell PA, according to Dun and Bradstreet.
Renderings provided by Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township
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This building facade strangely looks like a bunch of small storefronts rather than a single restaurant. It may be architecturally that the proposed owner is hedging his bets and building a structure that would in essence allow him to sell a multiple-unit strip store type building should the restaurant not pan out.
I don’t think this facade is a single restaurant type storefront.
By the way, it’s really a poor rendering at best. Not encouraging.