CRANBERRY TWP — A new development called the Marketplace at Cranberry could be coming to the intersection of Route 19 and North Boundary Road, a project that might include a grocery store and other retail buildings.

The township planning commission Monday night approved a preliminary land development application and a conditional use application for developer Dominic Gigliotti.

The 12-acre site is on the east side of Route 19 at that road’s intersection with North Boundary Road. Currently an open space that contains wetlands and streams, the property is across the road from the 7-Eleven gas station on Route 19.

Henshaw said Gigliotti doesn’t have a tenant for the proposed 60,000 square-foot grocery store, but added Gigliotti is confident he’ll find an interested company.

The other proposed buildings on the site include 13,000- and 10,000-square-foot facilities, Henshaw said, while a traffic roundabout also would be built along North Boundary Road.

The developer must get permits from the state Department of Environmental Protection because the site contains wetlands and streams. Henshaw said the planning commission’s approval Monday night would allow Gigliotti to seek those state permits.

If everything goes as planned, Henshaw said grading work at the site could begin by the end of the year.

“They have to get environmental permits then come back and get grading permits,” Henshaw said. “The DEP won’t let them move forward until they see what they’re doing with the land because there’s some environmentally sensitive stuff there. But the developer told us they’d love to be grading the site by the end of this year.”

After the meeting Monday night, David Lucci, a representative for the developer, said that there will be 420 parking spaces for the project.

Cars will have access to the development from the proposed roundabout and from a right-in turn on the northbound lanes of Route 19. There also will be a curb cut farther away from the roundabout that will serve as an access road for truck traffic.

Henshaw added that this project has been in the works for six or seven years, but that it’s only recently gotten more active because the developer wants to start to do more work on it.

“It’s been a long time in the works,” he said.

Both township officials and employees with the state Department of Transportation support the traffic roundabout, Henshaw said, after a study was done to test its feasibility.

In addition, the other two proposed buildings on the site could be “multi-tenant buildings like retail space or food places,” Henshaw said.