Proposed Dunkin’ Donuts in Peters gets parking variance
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McMURRAY – Peters Township Zoning Board gave the owner of Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in Southwestern Pennsylvania a 15-foot variance for the parking lot of the Eat’n Park on Washington Road, a move that takes a potential Peters Township location one step closer to reality.
Heartland Restaurant Group LLC, the Strip District-based owner of the area doughnut franchises, wants to construct a 1,950-square-foot Dunkin’ Donuts that will have a drive-up window, along with 3,000 square feet of retail space, on the site of the existing Eat’n Park at 3528 Washington Road. The restaurant, which has been at that location since 1960, will relocate and become the anchor tenant of the $4 million Peters Township Marketplace now under construction less than a mile away at the intersection of Washington and Hidden Valley roads.
Dunkin’ Donuts had left Washington County years ago, but returned to Canonsburg in early May when it opened a location on Cavasina Drive in the former Long John Silver’s restaurant.
With the apporoval of the variance, the next step for Heartland Restaurant is to ask Peters Township Council for a variance to construct a retaining wall higher than six feet at the site, said Ed Zuk, Peters planning director.
The time frame of the relocation of the Eat’n Park and the construction of the Dunkin’ Donuts is a bit unclear at this point.
Madison Realty Group LLC, the Pittsburgh-based developer of Peters Township Marketplace, has said it expects the new Eat’n Park will be open by the end of the year. Besides a 7,400-square-foot restaurant, that project will also include 2,500 square feet of retail space.
Officials from Heartland said Tuesday the existing Eat’n Park will be torn down and a new building will be constructed.The outside of the new Dunkin’ Donuts will be earth-tone colors, mostly orange, brown and some yellow.The front of Dunkin’, which will be open from 5 a.m. until midnight most days, will be heavily landscaped in the front and in the back. There will be 22 parking spaces.
Heartland Restaurant Group has 37 Dunkin’ Donuts – with more planned – in Southwestern Pennsylvania.