SPRING TWP., Pa. – Spring Township is inching closer to getting a new fast-food restaurant.
The township board of supervisors voted Monday night to continue a public hearing on a proposed Raising Cane’s restaurant to April 27 at 2026.
Township Solicitor Dan Becker said a request came in on Friday afternoon from representatives of the chicken finger chain to reschedule the hearing, which is for the purpose of discussing amendments to the tentative plan for the site.
The township planning commission was presented with an informal sketch plan in October proposing the construction of a 3,379-square-foot fast-food restaurant on the parking lot of the Kohl’s department store at the intersection of Paper Mill Road and Meridian Boulevard.
At the Feb. 5 planning meeting, the sketch plan was resubmitted as a revision to the tentative plan for the Spring Ridge planned residential development plan (PRD).
A previously tentative plan for the PRD included a 7 Brew Drive-Thru Coffee, but that is no longer moving forward.
Because the plan for 7 Brew cleared many of the requirements to locate within the PRD, the door is now open for Raising Cane’s to move ahead with the process.
However, because a Raising Cane’s was not part of the previous plan, a public hearing before the supervisors is needed to amend the PRD.
Attorney Amy Farrell, who represented 7 Brew, is now representing Raising Cane’s.
If the supervisors amend the PRD, it will allow Raising Cane’s to submit a final land development plan.
Raising Cane’s is known for its known for its hand-battered, cooked-to-order chicken fingers.
Raising Cane’s founder and CEO Todd Graves opened his first location near Louisiana State University in 1996. It was named after Graves’ yellow Labrador retriever.
There are more than 900 restaurant locations throughout the U.S. Currently, there are no locations in Berks County, but there is one in Lower Macungie Township in Lehigh County and another planned for Hanover Township in Lehigh County.