Washington Township is getting another Dollar General discount store.
Construction is nearing completion at Hancock Avenue and Route 66.
In an email, Dollar General spokeswoman Angela Petkovic said the store is tentatively scheduled to open within the next two weeks but didn’t provide a date.
Supervisor Rich Gardner said exterior paving was completed last week and signs advertising job openings are posted.
“I talked to a lot of people in general. It was a lot of positive feedback,” Gardner said of the project the township approved in August.
Monroeville-based PTV Contracting is developing the 3.3-acre site on behalf of Dollar General Corp.
The other Dollar General in the township opened seven years ago and is about 3 miles away at North Beaver Run Road and Route 66.
Township resident Harold Clark, 55, has lived for 20 years in his home directly across from the construction site and said he “hates” the new store.
“I lost my view,” Clark said, referring to what was once a rural field where he frequently spotted turkey and deer.
“I used to have my recliner positioned where I could relax and look outside, and now I have lights shining in my house at night,” Clark said.
Clark said the store’s exterior lights are on a timer and turn off at 10:30 p.m. each night, but he’s also worried about this once-quiet street becoming busy and transient.
“There will be increased traffic, and this was always a safe area,” Clark said.
Gardner said only a few township residents attended supervisors meetings last year during the planning and approval process for the project.
Clark said he’s upset he’ll be living next to what he said will be a busy store with lots of traffic.
“There’s nothing I can do,” Clark said. “I’d like to move, but my wife says we have all of our family memories here.”
Construction began in November on the 9,100-plus-square-foot building made of a stucco-like material, a departure from the standard preengineered metal.
“We requested that the building have a look that was pleasing to the community,” Gardner said of the exterior. “That was the biggest issue during meetings — the cosmetics of the building.”
Petkovic said the store plans to hire 6 to 10 employees.
Job hunters can apply at the company’s website.
