CRANBERRY TWP — UPMC and the Pittsburgh Penguins have chosen another location for their proposed sports medicine complex and training facility along Route 228 and near Interstate 79.

The preliminary development plans for the $70 million UPMC/Pittsburgh Penguins sports medicine complex have been withdrawn for a location in the Cranberry Woods office park, but now officials are eyeing another location along Route 228.

Ron Henshaw, the township’s director of community development, said that RLA Development and Don Rodgers on Friday withdrew plans for the Village of Cranberry Woods. That land development included the UPMC/Penguins sports medicine facility.

Henshaw said that UPMC officials told him that they’ve decided to relocate the sports medicine complex to the other side of Route 228.

That property is owned by Gary Sippel and was the site of the Simon Property Group’s proposed mixed-use development that fell through in 2009 because of transportation funding issues.

UPMC officials said for the first time that the two properties had been looked at simultaneously, but the Rodgers property had advanced further in the land development process.

Penguins management said Tuesday that they now plan to build the 180,000 square foot facility on the property owned by Sippel and to begin the land development process as early as next month.

Henshaw said Sippel indicated to the township that a plan for the proposed new Route 228 site could be submitted in August or September for review.

Officials said the essential development designs will not change, and they hope to get the site approved by this fall and construction to begin in the spring. The goal is to have the facility opened by 2015.