ADAMS TWP — The board of supervisors gave preliminary approval for a new Aldi as part of the Adams Corner development project.

Pending final approval, construction could begin in spring.

“It’ll be a good asset in the community,” vice chairman Ronald Shemela said.

The Adams Corner development is at the southeast corner of the intersection between Route 228 and Three Degree Road. The area includes the township’s new Sheetz.

To accommodate the more than 20,000-square-foot grocery store, supervisors agreed to subdivide a larger parcel of Adams Corner at the start of the meeting.

According to Mark Lesnick of Hampton Technical Associates, the engineering firm is nearing the phase for final approval.

“We addressed comments in the planning commission and also addressed some of the comments to most engineering,” Lesnick said. “I got it reviewed last Friday; there’s a couple little things we need to, you know, ‘dot our i’s and cross our t’s’ on, but we’re only asking for preliminary approval.”

Adams Township manager Gary Peaco said he expects the project to move along quickly following Monday’s approval.

“I think they’re going to want to get to it this construction season,” he said. “So I’m sure they want to start in the spring.”

The next step, Peaco said, will be to approve the final plans for the store.

“They’ve got some details to work out, so probably in a month or two we’ll see the final plans for it,” he said.

The township also gave preliminary approval to a segment of Middlesex Township’s Sienna Village development project that overlaps with Adams Township.

After Adams previously denied the project for its plan to privatize the development’s roads, Middlesex agreed last month to make them public.

“We have a public street outgoing through Middlesex, heading towards Adams Township, and you agreed to it,” David Lucci, landscape architect at Victor Wetzel Associates, said. “Everything’s public now.”

While the townships still will need to determine how the section of road will be managed, chairman Russell Ford expressed the township’s gratitude for the compromise.

“I want to thank you for stepping up and doing this,” Ford said. “I believe that, in the long run, for everybody in the townships — both here and Middlesex — this is the right way to do it.”