Primanti’s could be headed to Racetrack Road
A Primanti Brothers restaurant could be part of the mix for a mixed-use residential and retail complex under construction on Racetrack Road.
North Strabane Township Manager Frank Siffrinn said the municipality scheduled a public hearing at the request of Pittsburgh-based Primanti Corp. for an inter-municipal transfer of a restaurant liquor license from a former restaurant in Canton Township.
The hearing will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, immediately after the township holds its annual reorganization meeting.
Supervisors approved the request for the hearing during their regular meeting in December.
Siffrin said, if approved, the license would be transferred to 400 Adios Drive, which he said is the address where Southpointe-based Horizon Properties is building “Street at The Meadows,” which will include a four-story building that will have 90 one- and two-bedroom apartments on the top three floors, with 34,000 square feet of inline retail stores on the ground floor.
As part of the project, Horizon also is developing four outparcels on the 14.5-acre site that is fronted by Racetrack Road. Horizon purchased the acreage last year from The Meadows and broke ground for the development in June.
Horizon said the outparcels, which will add 50,000 square feet of retail space to the project, are intended for restaurants and possibly a bank.
The Street project is part of what The Meadows Racetrack & Casino General Manager Sean Sullivan has referred to as an entertainment and hospitality “campus” that includes the casino and racetrack and a new 155-room Hyatt Place hotel now being completed that will be connected to the casino.
The hotel is expected to open in March, while some retail components of the Street project are expected to open in the spring, with the apartments to open in the summer.
Neither Horizon nor Jared Imperatore, retail leasing agent with Cushman & Wakefield, which is handling leasing for the Street at the Meadows project, returned calls Friday from the Observer-Reporter requesting additional information on Primanti Corp.’s request.
If Primanti’s brings its signature fries-and-slaw sandwiches to the area, it will be the latest in a number of chain dining establishments to open here over the past year, including Longhorn Steakhouse, Buffalo Wild Wings and All-Star Sports Bar & Grille.