Weis Markets has paid $12.5 million for the sprawling former Offset Paperback manufacturing facility in Dallas Township, more than doubling what the previous owner paid for the site just last year. The deal closed quietly in late October, and so far, nobody outside the company is saying what the Sunbury-based grocer intends to build there.
According to a deed filed in Luzerne County and reported by The Citizens’ Voice, Fernbrook Commons 1 LLC sold the property to Weis Markets Inc. last month. Dallas Township Administrator Joe Moskovitz confirmed the township has heard about the transaction but has not seen any formal proposal. “We’ve been notified of the sale. There were rumors of course. No plans have been submitted,” he said.
That leaves the future of the 16-acre property wide open, at least publicly. Fernbrook Commons 1 LLC, managed by Sordoni Properties LLC, bought the site for $5.5 million in 2025 and at the time floated the idea of a commercial hub anchored by a supermarket, along with a convenience store with gas pumps and a drive-through restaurant. Sordoni also said it was weighing a fitness center, a medical facility and other retail tenants, but those were proposals tied to the previous owner, not confirmed plans from Weis.
A Grocer Already Rooted in the Back Mountain
Weis isn’t a stranger to this corner of Luzerne County. The company, which operates roughly 200 stores across seven states, already runs a location at 2525 Memorial Highway in Dallas Borough. It also closed its Country Club Shopping Center store in Dallas Township in January 2025, a closure the company attributed at the time to continuing underperformance, with plans to shift that store’s 43 associates to other nearby locations including the Memorial Highway store…