CRANBERRY TWP — The township planning department has started discussions with developers on several projects and businesses that could be coming to Cranberry.

Ron Henshaw, the director of community development, said Friday one project involves expanding UPMC Passavant Cranberry’s outpatient facility, which is at the intersections of Routes 19 and 228.

Henshaw said preliminary talks indicate that UPMC wants to expand that facility by another 14,000 square feet. The property includes the large hospital building facing the north side of the property while the outpatient facility is facing the southern edge of the property.

“We’re just getting started in the actual process even though we’ve been talking with UPMC for six months, getting everything in order,” Henshaw said. “Now we’re finally starting the review of their plans.”

Henshaw said the plan will be discussed Jan. 6 by Cranberry’s planning advisory commission. If approved there, the township supervisors could vote on the project as early as late January or early February.

Another project includes the potential construction of a two-story, 9,350-square-foot building on the south side of Route 228 in the development that has the Smokey Bones and Olive Garden restaurants.

One plot of land remains to be developed at that site, Henshaw said, a plot that will likely hold a mixed-use development that includes a bakery on the first floor and office space on the second floor.

Henshaw said the proposed bakery doesn’t have a tenant yet, although preliminary plans call for it to have a drive-thru and to be 5,000-square-feet.

The office space on the second floor would cover 4,350-square-feet.

“(The developers) would be constructing a brand-new building there, taking up the last lot in the middle of the existing development there,” he said.

Henshaw said that development also will come before the planning advisory commission on Jan. 6.

“I can’t see any reason why that development wouldn’t move on to the supervisors by the end of January,” he said.

Finally, the township is in discussions with developers to build a Camp Bow Wow — a business that includes a dog day care and boarding service.

That business would be on Commerce Park Drive near the township municipal building on Rochester Road. It would be in an existing building and wouldn’t need permits for new construction.

Like the other projects, Henshaw expects the Camp Bow Wow development to be discussed at the Jan. 6 meeting.