Adams Township approved the 42-acre Quincy Heights development on April 24, 2023. Austin Uram/Butler Eagle

ADAMS TWP — After tabling the Quincy Heights plan last month, the board voted Monday, April 24, to give final approval to the 42-acre housing and commercial development being built near Route 228.

“We’re capped at 480 (apartment) units from the (planned residential development) approval, we have 20 patio homes, 58 or 59 townhouses, 26 of the independent cottage units and then the assisted living has 84 units,” said Mike Hudek of Continental Real Estate Management.

Hudek said the apartments would include full and juliet balconies, as well as a swimming pool, seating areas, a pickleball court and play areas.

Additionally, the development will include a retail space level with Route 228.

“Then you’ll sort of climb up the hill, there’ll be the apartments and then the townhouses around them,” Hudek said.

Hudek emphasized that the 84-unit senior-living facility always would remain taxable and for-profit — a stipulation by the board for final approval.

The developer hopes to start construction in August.

“The senior community and the apartments will take 18 months to two years to construct,” Hudek said.

John Kamin, of Laurel Communities, said construction of the housing units would take approximately 16 months.

“And then retail construction won’t take too long,” Hudek said.

The board also gave final approval to a new Aldi grocery store as part of the Adams Corner development project.

The Adams Corner development is at the southeast corner of the intersection between Route 228 and Three Degree Road. The area includes the township’s new Sheetz.

The more than 20,000-square-foot grocery store was granted preliminary approval at a February meeting where supervisors agreed to subdivide a larger parcel of Adams Corner to accommodate it.

Chairman Russell Ford said the project was looking to break ground Thursday, April 27.

The Mandera Subdivision project — nine family homes proposed near the Cranberry municipal line — also was considered for preliminary approval Monday after being tabled last month concerning a well on the property that may or may not be a gas well.

Ultimately, the board chose to table it again after Victor Wetzel Associates provided it with a professional opinion on the well earlier that evening.

“This landed on our desk tonight at five minutes to five,” Ford said, “so then you’ll understand why the board’s going to decide to table this so that they have the opportunity to actually review it.”

The report, according to Steve Victor. of Victor Wetzel Associates, was provided by Core Environmental Associates and proved that the well was a casing buried on the property that had never been used for water, gas or oil.

Ford said the previous agreement was that the developer would provide a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

“I want the minutes to reflect and go back and look: I’m almost 100% certain that we said we wanted a DEP report,” Ford said.

The project was granted a 60-day extension when it was tabled in February, and will be considered again in May.