The supercenter could join a slew of competitors in the area with a 159,000-square-foot store at the planned Henderson Crossing project
Make room for Meijer.
The Michigan-based grocer on Thursday confirmed that it is hoping to join the influx of new options for shoppers in Cranberry Township — where the region’s longtime market leader Giant Eagle is based. Wegmans Food Market is also joining the Cranberry club.
“As we continue to grow, having more options for our residents is a key thing that we really like to see,” said Ron Henshaw, the township’s director of planning and development services. “Competition among grocery stores … hopefully benefits our residents.”
Taking up 159,000 square feet, Meijer is planned to be the principal tenant of a 44.5-acre mixed-use development plan called Henderson Crossing, officials said.
In addition to a Meijer supercenter that will house apparel, a garden center, a drive-thru pharmacy and a Meijer Express gas station, the Henderson Crossing project also calls for “three outparcels” — a coffee drive-thru, a fast food drive-thru and a sit down restaurant. And there will be a multi-family housing component to the campus, with 240 residential units across eight buildings, Mr. Henshaw said.
“There’s no known tenants here,” Mr. Henshaw said. “They’ll have to come later.”
Susan Nemes, the senior manager of Meijer’s external communications, confirmed the Cranberry location through an email to the Post-Gazette, but said the project is “still very early in the process” and Meijer had no further details to add.
The Henderson Crossing project is so early in the process, that a presentation to the township’s Planning Advisory Commission Monday was what’s called “a pre-application conference” for feedback, so nothing is official, Mr. Henshaw said.
“Although the official submittal did just come in, we haven’t actually accepted it yet, but it is here,” he said in an interview Thursday.
That marks the beginning of the land development approval schedule, and Mr. Henshaw said there will be plenty of time throughout the process for public review and for the board of supervisors to make a decision.
Tony Dolan — founder of the East-Liberty-based-Alphabet City real estate company — is heading the development project, although Mr. Henshaw said the name on the application is under Alpha Underhill Limited Partnership. Mr. Dolan’s Alphabet City has been a part of East Liberty developments such as Bakery Square and the DuoLingo headquarters.
As of Thursday, there was no official timeline for Henderson Crossing.
“The developer mentioned they need plenty of time, heading well into next year, to get all their outside agency approvals and permits going,” Mr. Henshaw said. “They think they’ll be working on that well into 2026, and then possibly start [development] thereafter.”
Meijer, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., aims to join an increasingly crowded field in the Western Pennsylvania grocery scene.
New-York-based Wegmans in January announced its first ever Pittsburgh location — also in Cranberry — on Cool Springs Drive, slated to open in 2027. That Wegmans will be 115,000 feet, and possibly disrupt a Pittsburgh market ecosystem that already includes Giant Eagle, Walmart, Aldi, Target, Shop ‘n Save, Sam’s Club, Costco, and B.J.’s Warehouse.
Giant Eagle’s CEO Bill Artman told the Post-Gazette in September that he hopes these incoming outsiders will invest money back into the Pittsburgh region, and give back the way Giant Eagle has.
“We’ve been fighting competition for 95 years. We’re still here,” Mr. Artman said in September. “We’re not trying to be like the other guy. We’re trying to be the best version of us.”
Henderson Crossing will take up an entire block, bounded by Route 228, Franklin Road and Hillmont Drive. North Catholic High School shares borders with the project, and Mr. Henshaw said the school is expected to sell some land to the project.
Meijer has more than 500 stores across the Midwest.
First Published: October 2, 2025, 9:34 a.m. Updated: October 3, 2025, 6:54 a.m.