The developer who proposed a new shopping area to be anchored by the state’s second-largest Kroger Marketplace has pulled its rezoning request to West Chester Twp.

Silverman and Company Inc., of Blue Ash, sent an email early Wednesday morning to West Chester Twp. officials withdrawing its request and proposal for a new shopping area, Crossings of Beckett, to be located at the corner of Tylersville and Princeton-Glendale (Ohio 747) roads.

More than 100 people packed a zoning board meeting Monday, where by a 4-1 vote, the board did not recommend the project.

The shopping area would have included the 133,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace store as well as several lots for retail stores, restaurants or office buildings, according to plans proposed to the township zoning board.

The plans were first submitted to the township in September 2012, according to Barb Wilson, the township’s public information officer.

A number of residents, particularly several who lived in nearby subdivisions, opposed the proposal, citing increased traffic and safety issues. They also mounted a grassroots campaign, using signs and social media, to oppose the project.

Wednesday’s email was not specific on why the proposal being submitted on behalf of Kroger was being withdrawn, Wilson said.

Prior to withdrawing the proposal, the project was to have been considered by the West Chester Township Board of Trustees in the next several weeks. A unanimous vote by all three trustees would have been required in order to overturn the zoning board’s decision, according to Wilson.

The 35 acres that Silverman and Company, Inc. wants to develop is currently zoned for future residential development, according to township planner Bryan Behrmann. The land nearby is mostly zoned the same — R-1A, Residential Planned Unit Development, and Agricultural — except for a portion of C-PUD with Caribou Coffee, Key Bank and a fitness center.

As of Wednesday morning, the current residential zoning remains in place but the developer has the option to resubmit their plans at a later date, Wilson said. She said the township had no indication if a new proposal would be submitted.

Timothy Burgoyne Sr., an executive with Silverman and Company Inc., was not available for comment Wednesday.

Rachael Betzler, a Kroger spokeswoman, said there have been no discussions between the grocery chain and the developer.

“It’s a possibility that a new plan might be submitted,” Betzler said. “We’re looking forward to expanding in West Chester with a Marketplace that would also include a fuel center for our customers.”

“The current location is bursting at the seams,” she said. “It’s a very busy store.”

Betzler said the proposed store would have been nearly twice the size of the current store located down the road about 1.5 miles away on Ohio 747. She said that store was originally constructed as a 56,000-square-foot store in 1991 and the store was expaned to 71,000 square feet in 2002. The store employs more than 100 people, she said.

Betzler said a Marketplace store “would give additional job opportunities,” and that it would have replaced the current store.

There are more than 2,400 Kroger stores and 11 Marketplaces in the Cincinnati-based company.