Dec 1, 2013 4 min read

Phase I of the Park Place at the Meadowlands project will cater to diners, shoppers, drivers, business people – and kids.

Tender Care Learning Center will open near the beginning of 2014 along with business offices. This will be about two months after the initial businesses began operations on the site: a BFS convenience store, Sunoco gas pumps, and three BFS franchisees located inside: Tim Hortons restaurant, Little Caesars Pizza and Dairy Queen Grill & Chill.

The 44-acre project will be mostly in North Strabane Township, but the BFS complex is in South Strabane Township — just east of Route 19 near Racetrack Road.

Sandy Chaban, vice president of development for Bradford Child Care Services, operator of the Tender Care centers, said the mission of her nonprofit is “to help children prepare for a lifetime of learning by providing each child a quality early care and educational experience.”

Tender Care Learning Centers serve children from 6 months to 10 years old.

This will be the 18th Tender Care in Western Pennsylvania, and will occupy about 10,000 square feet. Hours will be 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Angela Mantick is the director. Brenda Temoff, a local resident and 24-year employee, is the assistant director.

The phone number is 724-914-3603.

Horses aren’t the only things in motion off Racetrack Road. Four new businesses have moved into the Shoppes at Quail Acres.

Yesterday’s New (antiques), Fortuiteam Cafe (teas), Club Leaf & Bean (premium cigars) and Principessa (children’s boutique) have opened in the complex, a short trot from The Meadows Racetrack & Casino in North Strabane Township.

Those shops are among 11 businesses on the site. The holdovers are Glam Earth, Accents at the Quail, Artemis Botanicals Bath Shop, Bella Colore Salon & Spa, French Quarter, Dogs Rule Grooming Salon & Shoppe and Palazzo 1837 Ristorante.

In reality, there are 12 businesses. French Quarter features two entities under one umbrella: Ooh La La Boutique and Chandelle Chaleur.

The shops, just off Route 19, started their holiday hours on Black Friday. They will be open every day through Dec. 23 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Wednesday, and 10 p.m. to 7 p.m. each Thursday.

At the opposite end of Racetrack Road, Tanger Outlets has announced the addition of two stores coming in the spring. Tanger General Manager Jodi Dauge said H&M, or Hennes & Mauritz, a Swedish clothing retailer which offers “cheap chic” or stylish clothing at low prices, will occupy an 18,000-square-foot space at the South Strabane Township shopping venue. Also coming in spring is Yankee Candle Co., which will take 2,000 square feet.

Stanley A. Rockovich of Canonsburg has been named national sales director for SciTest Laboratories, a Virginia-based lab now serving a national market in criminal justice and pain management drug testing. He will be based at the company’s Canonsburg office. Rockovich brings to SciTest nearly 25 years of experience in sales, project management and development within the criminal justice field’s increasing need for effective, fast and accurate drug-testing services. He is an alumnus of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in justice administration, and earned a master’s degree in public management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Peter Elish, of Elish & Elish, Inc., Canonsburg, was recently elected to serve on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority District 9 Small Firm Advisory Board. The SFAB, an advisory committee established by the National Association of Securities Dealers Board of Governors in 1998, reviews and comments on all new and amended FINRA rule proposals, and ensures that issues of particular interest and concern to small firms are effectively communicated to and considered by the FINRA Board of Governors.