Mahoning Township has given its consent on several matters for a credit union that plans to move to a now vacant property next to the stand-alone Starbucks along Route 443.

Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved the First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union development agreement and stormwater maintenance agreement. The board, however, tabled the improvements cost estimate for the time being.

The credit union inside the Carbon Plaza Mall plans to move next to the stand-alone Starbucks.

Victor Kelly, executive vice president of Larken Associates, which owns the Carbon Plaza Mall, said the credit union should be ready to open within about eight months.

Supervisors in December allowed First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union to submit plans as a combined preliminary/final plan.

Kelly said First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union would be moved from inside the Carbon Plaza to the former Country Harmony Natural Foods location at 1235 Blakeslee Boulevard Drive East. The store closed in April 2023.

According to plans reviewed by the Carbon County Planning Commission in September, a single-story, 2,614-square-foot commercial building that would house the credit union is proposed at the location. It would include drive-through aisles, a total of 18 parking spaces, and would use the revised entrance from Route 443 to a new connection to the mall.

This would mark the second time in less than a decade that First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union will move. The Lehigh Valley based credit union moved the branch from South Seventh Street, Lehighton, into the Carbon Plaza Mall in 2018.