Panera Bread, Chipotle coming to North Cornwall

Chipotle and Panera Bread have been announced as two of the businesses going into the shopping center set to be built on the site Cedar Lanes currently occupies in North Cornwall Township.

The shopping center could be ready to open by November, Brad Rohrbaugh, vice president of retail at Bennett Williams Commercial, said in an interview with the Central Penn Business Journal.

The two restaurants will join an AT&T store and an Aspen Dental practice, which leaves one unoccupied site, according to the Central Penn Business Journal article.  That space is being looked at by a national company, Rohrbaugh said in the article.

North Cornwall Township documents on the preliminary redevelopment plan called for the bowling alley to be replaced by a five-store, 13,500-square-foot shopping center that would include two restaurants, two retail sales stores and a dental office, according to a Daily News article from November.

Cedar Lanes, 1451 Quentin Road, is set to close in May, but owner Darrin Armel hinted in a previous interview that the bowling alley may reopen at a new location.

In that interview, Armel told the Lebanon Daily News that “he and his business partners are actively considering options for opening another bowling alley in Lebanon.”

One of those options appears to be coming to fruition, as a new location for the bowling alley will be discussed at a North Cornwall Zoning Hearing Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 9 involving “bowling alley use on the property” at the Royal Oaks Golf Club, 3350 Oak St.