Taylor Chip Cookie Co. is getting in to the ice cream business.
After winning a key zoning approval last week, the cookie bakery is moving ahead with plans to build a 20,000-square-foot creamery along Route 462 in West Hempfield Township.
Construction plans are being finalized for the new Taylor Chip Cookies & Creamery, which would have an ice cream making plant with a retail area while also consolidating the companyâs cooking making at 1780 Columbia Ave. Ice cream would be sold on site, with plans to also distribute it to retailers and offer mail-order sales.
âWe wanted to have a place where people could also visit, have an experience, do a tour,â said Doug Taylor, who owns the company with his wife, Sara. âWe will ship ice cream nationally, and will also do all the cookie production there as well.â