New credit union to open soon at Meadows Landing
A federal credit union likely will be the first enterprise to land at Meadows Landing.
The Washington Area FCU plans to open its 10,000-square-foot building by late September in the mixed-use development under construction. It is off the southbound lanes of Route 19 in South Strabane Township, on a bluff overlooking Racetrack Road.
Legally chartered as Washington Area Teachers Federal Credit Union, the FCU is a growing nonprofit offering an array of financial services. It is 55 years old and used to serve only educators, but its membership now includes numerous other vocations. That’s why it is commonly recognized, simply, as Washington Area FCU.
The credit union currently is on Park Avenue in North Franklin Township.
Its new home is one of four projects planned for the 204-acre site – and one of two under way. Work on the Washington Health System’s outpatient center is advancing, and the facility is expected to open, partially, in late September or October. All services are expected to be up and running in November, said Stephanie Wagoner, spokeswoman for the health system.
A convenience store/gasoline complex may soon be en route to Meadows Landing. Hal Kestler of Meadows Landing Associates, developer and owner of the property, said Friday he anticipates a closing on the parcel for that enterprise to occur within a week.
Kestler said it will not be a Get-Go complex, as was reported previously. He refused to divulge the identity of the prospective tenant, or any others being courted.
“There’s nothing hard or under contract, so I am not at liberty to speak,” said Kestler, partner with Gerard Cipriani in Meadows Landing Associates.
Kestler did say they are entertaining leases for a 35,000-square-foot retail center on the site, with a possible closing by year’s end and construction beginning next spring.
“We have very strong interest in the remaining parcels of Phase I,” he added.
Graziano Construction and Development Co. of O’Hara Township is doing the work.
The outpatient center “will serve 6,000 surgical patients every year,” Gary Weinstein, chief executive officer for Washington Health System, said during that groundbreaking.
It will be a two-story structure featuring the outpatient center, Tri-State Surgery Center and offices.
Tri-State Surgery and the offices of Washington Ear Nose & Throat will be relocating to a more spacious facility than their current home on Leonard Avenue, which opened in 2004. The surgery center will occupy about 19,000 of the 51,000 square feet of the project, which also will have the WHS Women’s Diagnostic Center; offices of Southwestern Gastroenterology Oncology Associates; Keystone Anesthesia Associates; and other physicians’ offices that have not been determined.
Harmony Medical Holdings, a group headed by Dr. Howard Goldberg, raised $2.47 million for the relocations and expansion. Washington Health System will be 25 percent minority owner of the project.