Large development planned in Middlesex
MIDDLESEX TWP — A large commercial and residential development is planned at the intersection of Routes 8 and 228.
Developer Chris Kaclik will bring plans for Middlesex Crossings before the township supervisors at a conditional use hearing at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building.
Kaclik said the 93-acre preliminary plan at the southeast corner of the intersection includes a large building for a retail, grocery store or a big box store, mid-size retail buildings, specialty retail, medical offices and a convenience store and gas station in the commercial section of the plan on 3,500 feet of frontage on Route 8.
The residential plan includes about 140 single- family and town homes.
Four entrances are included. The commercial section would have accesses at the intersection at routes 8 and 228, as well as at a new traffic signal intersection on Route 8 just south of that intersection.
The residential area would be accessed on the southern end of the plan on Route 8, and on Overbrook Road.
The site is attractive to Kaclik because it would draw shoppers from both Route 228 and Route 8.
“It’s kind of a forgotten little corridor,” Kaclik said.
He does not yet have an estimated cost of the plan.
“We’re still in the very early stages,” Kaclik said.
Township manager Eric Kaunert said Kaclik will ask the supervisors Wednesday to approve 10 modifications to accepted uses, including those related to sidewalks, setbacks, parking, lot sizes and grading.
Kaunert said the plan has been submitted to the township planning commission, but has not been recommended for the supervisors’ approval.
He said Kaclik has gotten the required highway occupancy permit from the state Department of Transportation.
Kaclik said a Water Authority of Adams Township water line is being extended 6,000 feet from the Blackberry Estates housing plan on Denny Road to the site, which was originally the Leslie farm.
He said the Saxonburg Area Authority sewer lines already are in that area.
If the approval process proceeds smoothly, Kaclik said infrastructure construction could begin in the fall.
