The foundation for a Dollar General - one of several building projects underway in the municipality - is in place in Mahoning Township.

The steel framing is set for the building along Route 443 just east of the Normal Square intersection where the former Bill’s Bakery was leveled to make room for a Dollar General.

In December, the township’s board of supervisors approved the development agreement and stormwater operating and maintenance agreements.

That came after the board in November unanimously adopted a preconstruction agreement for Dollar General.

The plans calls 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.

Starbucks

In November, township supervisors agreed to sign a development agreement, stormwater management agreement, and accept the letter of credit for a standalone Starbucks at the site of the former PNC Bank in the Carbon Plaza Mall along Route 443. The former bank was demolished in August.

Currently, Starbucks is inside Giant in the Carbon Plaza Shopping Center.

The Carbon Plaza Shopping Center owns the mall area. The former PNC Bank branch located on the site closed in 2021.

Credit Union

A credit union inside the Carbon Plaza Mall plans to move to a now vacant property next to a standalone Starbucks.

Township supervisors in December allowed First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union to submit plans as a combined preliminary/final plan.

The board also granted conditional final plan approval conditioned upon the LTL Consultants review letter dated Dec. 6.

Victor Kelly, executive vice president of Larken Associates, which owns the Carbon Plaza Mall, said First Commonwealth Credit Union would be moved from inside the Carbon Plaza to the former Country Harmony Natural Foods location at 1235 Blakeslee Boulevard Drive East. The store closed in April.

According to plans reviewed by the Carbon County Planning Commission in September, a single-story, 2,614-square-foot commercial building that would house the credit union is proposed at the location. It would include drive-through aisles, a total of 18 parking spaces, and would use the revised entrance from Route 443 to a new connection to the mall.

This would mark the second time in less than a decade that First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union will move.

The Lehigh Valley based credit union moved the branch from South Seventh Street, Lehighton, into the Carbon Plaza Mall in 2018.

Marshalls

A Marshalls store will eventually occupy the space where the former Mahoning Valley 8 - formerly Mahoning Valley Cinema - was until it closed in September at the Carbon Plaza Mall.

Work has begun to renovate the space.

Cassidy Kelly, marketing supervisor, said in an email, “We anticipate that the new Marshalls store in Lehighton, PA will open in the future.”

Marshalls is a chain of off-price department stores owned by TJX Companies, and has over 1,000 American stores.