By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Middletown Township in Bucks County just made a major land-use decision. Township supervisors approved a zoning change that turns an 85-acre former landfill at 2011 West Lincoln Highway into a Logistics Center Overlay District. The site is a federally designated Superfund site that has been contaminated since at least the 1940s. The new district allows light...
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By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Granite Creek Properties is proposing to convert a 7,500-square-foot former manufacturing building at 5 New Galena Road in New Britain Township into a six-unit apartment complex. Studios, one-bedrooms, and two-bedrooms. Twelve parking spaces, with some street parking overflow. Six units does not sound like a big story. It is. What Adaptive Reuse Means for...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team A developer has submitted sketch plans for a 34-unit, age-restricted, twin-home community on a 20-acre property at 1230 Stump Road in Upper Southampton Township. The homes would be roughly 2,500 square feet each, clustered around a cul-de-sac, with nearly 14 acres of preserved wooded open space and a walking trail. If you are over 55 in Bucks County and thinking...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team A controversial 2-million-square-foot AI data center has been resubmitted for zoning approval in Plymouth Township, less than a mile from downtown Conshohocken. Six months ago, the same developer pulled the application over a legal technicality. Now it’s back. More than 1,200 residents have already signed a petition opposing it. If you own a home in...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Plymouth Township sits at one of the most connected addresses in Montgomery County. The Pennsylvania Turnpike, Route 476, and Germantown Pike all run through it, putting Center City Philadelphia, the King of Prussia corridor, and the Lehigh Valley within easy reach. That access is one of the biggest reasons buyers keep choosing this Township over neighboring towns...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Three Bucks County municipalities are now in the middle of data center fights. Falls Township. West Rockhill. And East Rockhill, which just advertised a new ordinance to regulate data centers before any application even arrives. Add to that a state senator from Bucks County proposing legislation to give towns the power to pause data center applications...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Montgomery County commissioners just approved $2.28 million in engineering contracts to advance two segments of the Cross County Trail East. Both segments span Upper Moreland and Upper Dublin townships. This is the same trail that, when complete, will run 17.5 miles from Conshohocken on the Schuylkill River Trail east to Bryn Athyn and the Pennypack Trail. For...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Real estate investor Dean Adler is going on offense in the Philadelphia suburbs. He is closing on the purchase of Plymouth Meeting Mall in May. He has plans to buy and redevelop the 137-acre property that used to be Franklin Mills in Northeast Philadelphia. Combined with his previously announced Centre Square office redevelopment in Center City, his projects would...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team Jet fuel has been detected in another private well in Upper Makefield Township’s Mount Eyre area. This is the same neighborhood where a Sunoco pipeline leak went undetected for more than 16 months before being discovered last year. A monitoring well used by the pipeline companies also tested positive on April 1. At least a dozen residential wells in this area have...
By Josh McKnight | The McKnight Team The Bensalem Township School Board just voted to eliminate 31 positions for the 2026-2027 school year. The list includes elementary teachers, special education teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, and nine administrative roles. The district is staring down a $12 million budget shortfall, and even after these cuts and some bond restructuring, there is still a...