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Mahoning to hold special meeting on Dollar General

A proposed Dollar General in Mahoning Township will pick up where it left off earlier this month.

The township’s board of supervisors will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m. Nov. 30 to discuss the Dollar General plan.

That comes several weeks after supervisors tabled the development, stormwater operating and maintenance agreements, and letter of credit.

The plans call for building a 10,700-square-foot store with 32 parking spaces. JLM Investments LLC is the project engineer for the project, while the site is owned by Duschak One LLC.

In July, the board had signed a preconstruction agreement with Starbucks that enabled the company to begin doing some earth moving, but they couldn’t start to put up their building until the supervisor signed off on agreements, Last month, the board tabled those matters concerning Starbucks because they only received the information a short time before the meeting.

Township solicitor Tom Nanovic had prepared the development agreement and stormwater agreement for Dollar General almost identical to Starbucks, but the attorney for Dollar General made changes to what Nanovic had drafted.

Essentially, Dollar General wanted to know if it could enter into a preconstruction agreement the same way Starbucks did back in July, and their attorney prepared an agreement.

Cole Boyer, project engineer for JLM Investments, brought the agreement to the meeting earlier this month, but Nanovic hadn’t seen it yet.

Supervisor Deb McGowan and board Chairman Robert Slaw tabled the agreement, saying they were uncomfortable because they hadn’t seen it yet.

The former Bill’s Bakery was leveled to make way for a Dollar General along Route 443 just east of the Normal Square intersection.