A Starbucks in Mahoning Township will be relocated to its own stand-alone store.

Township supervisors on a 4-0 vote Wednesday granted conditional preliminary plan approval for the relocation project. Board Chairman Robert Slaw was absent.

The board heard from Victor Kelly, executive vice president of Larken Associates, and Mark Bahnick, from Van Cleef Engineering.

Bahnick said the plan is to demolish the former PNC Bank and build a brand-new, roughly 4,000-square-foot Starbucks on property currently occupied by the former PNC Bank.

In addition to the Starbucks, Bahnick said the rest of the space may be a food-type use. However, there is no tenant for that space at this point.

Currently, there is a Starbucks located inside Giant in the Carbon Plaza Shopping Center.

The Carbon Plaza Shopping Center owns the mall area.

In September, the Carbon County Planning Commission recommended the relocation project receive preliminary plan approval.

The PNC Bank site has sat empty since the bank closed the branch on June 11, 2021.