Roughly 600 people in Delaware County are on a county property tax payment plan right now, according to the county communications office. Almost nobody knows the option exists, which is how an unpaid bill turns into a lien and a…
September 2026
The Wallingford-Swarthmore School District board approved a revised ten-year capital plan, cutting it from $164 million to $132 million. The reduction follows an earlier board decision to scale back the proposed Strath Haven High School renovation from roughly $99 million…
Abington Township and Norristown received more than $1.2 million in Pennsylvania disaster recovery block grants tied to Hurricane Ida. Abington takes about $922,800. Norristown receives $300,000. The storm that generated the claims hit in September 2021, five years ago this…
Affordability restrictions on more than 9,700 rental units across Pennsylvania expire within the next five years. When a restriction lapses, the owner can raise rents to market rate or sell the building. Until now, no state agency tracked those expiration…
ChristianaCare marked the end of the structural construction phase on its new neighborhood hospital at 351 N. State Road in Springfield. The building runs 20,000 square feet. It is scheduled to open in fall 2027 with a full-service emergency department,…
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission released its annual Electric Power Outlook on September 1. The report projects that statewide electricity demand could climb nearly 19 percent per year for the next five years. Almost all of that growth traces to…
Apartments got slightly bigger across the country last year. In Philadelphia they shrank. New apartments built between 2016 and 2025 average 747 square feet, which is 163 square feet below the national average, according to a RentCafe analysis.
Upper Merion Township supervisors voted three to two on August 27 to approve a Greystar plan for a six story, 205 unit apartment building at 720 Vandenburg Road in King of Prussia. The vacant 85,000 square foot former Arcfield office…
Lower Makefield Township posted a reminder to residents that flooding can happen anywhere, and urged homeowners not to wait until water is in the basement to look at coverage. The township pointed residents toward an updated FEMA flood insurance pricing…
The Pennsylvania Association of Realtors published guidance on August 28 addressing a question that keeps coming up at kitchen tables across Bucks County. Data centers are not listed anywhere on the state seller disclosure form. There is no box to…