The large tract behind Redner’s Quick Shoppe and CVS on 21st Street - an area that has set idle for decades - is now being eyed as a site for a two-story assisted living facility for seniors.

The borough planning commission will meet April 12 in council chambers at borough hall to review sketch plans and hear details presented by Pennsylvania Venture Capital, Inc., Whitehall Township, on its plans to develop the parcel as Northampton Manor.

The address of the applicant is 823 N. Third St., Fullerton - listed as Whitehall Manor, an Abe Atiyeh facility.

The planning commission will hear concepts for the project, located in a C-2 commercial zone. The information provided to the borough states there would be 235 beds at the facility.

Whitehall Manor is Atiyeh’s first seniors facility, which includes units for assisted living, seniors with mobility and Alzheimer’s. Saucon Valley Manor and Bethlehem Manor are under the same flagship.

The parcel had been a clothing factory and was later bought by Posh Construction, Bethlehem Township. The factory structures were razed, and CVS and Redner’s erected stores on the site, facing 21st Street.

Posh at one time had considered other development projects, none of which materialized.

Pennsylvania Venture Capital, Inc. earlier this year, appeared before the borough zoning hearing board, which approved its plans for a child care facility on Washington Avenue.

The meeting will begin 7 p.m.