Redner's Ware House Market in the North End Shopping Center.
POTTSTOWN PA – Redner’s Warehouse Markets can expand its grocery store in the North End Shopping Center, 1300 N. Charlotte St., Pottstown PA, by both moving into vacant space and building additional square footage on its north side within the plaza, the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners agreed Monday (Feb. 7, 2011).
Redner’s unanimously won commissioners’ permission to grow by about 5,000 square feet into the space formerly occupied by Frank’s Hardware store, and extending that area at its rear (east) wall. Board members, following a recommendation by township staff, allowed Redner’s to bypass usual subdivision and land development requirements because the project was relatively small and part of the plaza’s already approved footprint.
Redner’s and plaza owners have said they will abandon efforts to seek a stand-alone “pad site” tenant, such as a bank or fast-food restaurant, that once was envisioned at the front of the shopping center lining the east side of North Charlotte at Mervine Street, according to township Assistant Manager Alyson Elliott. That area, now used for parking, will remain undeveloped.
The expansion plans were reviewed and approved during January by the township Planning Commission, Elliott added.
Because subdivision requirements were waived, Elliott, the engineering firm of Bursich Associates Inc. of Sanatoga, and others will be responsible for final review and oversight of the expansion. Commission Vice President Bruce Foltz reminded them to ensure emergency exit needs were addressed at the rear of the new space, and asked Fire Marshal Lew Babel to certify that emergency equipment won’t be blocked near Redner’s loading docks.
“We’ve still got to look at that,” Bursich President Scott Exley confirmed.
The 4-0 board vote favoring the project did not include Commissioner James Kaiser, who was absent from the meeting.
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Feb. 7 meeting):
- Redner’s Market To Expand Within North Charlotte Plaza
- Parks Work Successful So Far; Feb. Meeting Canceled
- Drug Sales A Problem Near High School, Township Told
- Over Objections, Commissioners Endorse Buchert Apartments
- Two Expansions Considered On Lower Pottsgrove Agenda
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