CRANBERRY TWP — Township supervisors Thursday evening gave their go-ahead on plans for a new Shop 'n Save grocery store on Freedom Road in the Freedom Square shopping plaza.

The 64,723-square-foot facility would be built on six acres at Freedom Road's intersection with Haine School Road.

The facility, which would have an entry road from Patriot Drive, will have a ground floor for retail and a mezzanine for offices and a community center. It will have a five-foot wooden fence on the perimeter.

The approval comes despite some residents concerns and displeasure over the large grocery store neighboring some residences. Some residents along Freedom Road said the store would increase noise, traffic and light pollution in nearby houses.

Randy Morris, a developer representing the family that plans to build the store, told the supervisors last month his client owns five supermarkets in the Pittsburgh area and they've been "very good neighbors in other neighborhoods" where they own grocery stores.

He also said the proposed Shop 'n Save store is a "perfect fit" for Cranberry even though the store would be built across the street from a residential neighborhood. Morris said truck deliveries at the store would be prohibited from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and that the store would close at midnight every night.

The developer will pay more than $2.4 million in transportation impact and other required fees to Cranberry. That money that will be used for public infrastructure improvements including the eventual widen Freedom Road and improvements to Haine School Road.

Shop 'n Save previously was in the Cranberry Mall until 2006, when its former owner, Supervalu of Minneapolis, Minn., sold the space and several other suburban Pittsburgh grocery stores to Kuhn's Quality Markets.

Kuhn's is still a tenant in the Cranberry Mall.