CRANBERRY TWP — An Aldi grocery store could be going in the Cranberry Mall because the company recently applied for a building permit.

Ron Henshaw, the director of community development for the township, said the grocery store would occupy about 18,000 square feet in the building previously used by Kuhn’s Market.

Henshaw said the grocery store would only occupy a part of that building, which is 30,000 to 40,000 square feet.

It is not clear what, if anything, would be done with the remaining space in the building.

Henshaw said the plan won’t go through the township planning commission because one grocery store is replacing another in that space.

Township staff already has reviewed the necessary paperwork and Henshaw said the building permit could be issued “very soon.”

Henshaw said he and other officials are happy that the space will be occupied.

“The bottom line is we’re glad a new user is going in the Cranberry Mall,” he said. “People are most certainly interested in Aldi coming here.”

Aldi has more than 1,300 stores in the country and more than 4,000 stores worldwide, including one in Butler Township on New Castle Road.