Two Township Eyesores To Be Dealt With
The Supervisors on Wednesday reviewed proposals for an assisted living facility on Durham and Eagle Roads, where boarded up homes now sit. And a dentist wants to built his office on the site of an abandoned home in front of the swim club.
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Plans to redevelop two sites in Newtown Township that are considered “eyesores” came before the Board of Supervisors Wednesday.
Wen-Hamilton is seeking to build a two-story, 120-bed assisted living complex Durham and Eagle Roads, where a string of boarded up homes currently sits.
The 87,000-square foot assisted living complex will be constructed on seven tax parcels, which altogether is about 8.6 acres.
The supervisors approved a preliminary land development plan for the project, called The Birches.
Also on Thursday, the supervisors gave the nod to construction of a dental office on Newtown-Yardley Road. The dental office, Weglos Dental Practice, will be built on the site of the abandoned house just in front of the Newtown Swim Club. The house is boarded up and plants are growing all over it.
“It looks like we’re moving forward on two of the three eyesores in Newtown Township,” said Supervisor Mike Gallagher.
The third site that is considered a local eyesore is the former Acme on Sycamore Street. A land development plan has been approved for that site, but construction has not yet started. Last month, the applicant came before the supervisors seeking to amend the plan but further action has not been taken.
Nora Jemali
7:48 pm on Thursday, September 22, 2011
Good News! There are so many abandoned "eye sores" in Newtown....... The old Acme building annoys me the most!!!!
Kathleen Reidy
9:21 am on Friday, September 23, 2011
Great just what Newtown needs is more construction and buildings. Traffic already is a nightmare and they have built on almost every open space. The vets office is available. Why not put the dentist office there? Instead of looking like a quaint little town, Newtown is turning into a mini philadelphia.
MelP
11:39 am on Friday, September 23, 2011
A mini Philadelphia? I would hardly call a 2 story assisted living place a sky scraper. I would like to see the abandoned homes be knocked down and something more asthetically pleasing built there. The icing on the cake would be the old Acme building. I agree, it's very annoying!
Mari
5:14 pm on Friday, September 23, 2011
Two out of three isn't bad, it's a start. I hope the Acme is torn down soon. Rumor has it being done next month???
Kathleen Reidy
7:18 pm on Friday, September 23, 2011
Yes a mini Philadelphia. Every available space is being built upon. No nature left and roads not equipped to handle all the traffic. I have seen it before. Blue Bell was cow country when I grew up there now it nothing but housing developments, offices, and nightmare traffic jams.
Karen
9:26 am on Monday, September 26, 2011
Funny you mention what Blue Bell looked like before. I don't know how long you've lived in Newtown or the area, but I have lived here all my life and remember plenty of open space and roads well equiped for small town traffic, before all the homes in the big developments were built. We lost our open space to new developments, then shopping centers to provide for the new developments and then larger schools. Where does it end. I know there has to be progress and times change. But I find it funny that some, not all, people who say there is no open space are living on ground that was once open space. We need to have business in the twp/borough, but no one is every happy...eyesores, someone comes up with a plan to make it look better then no one wants the plan to go through, they want open space. Who will take care of open space? We have a park that was dedicated in the spring and not opened yet. If we want the eyesores to come down, we need to accept there will be reasonable development. I would love to see a reasonable priced Sr. retirement home. Just my opinons.
Kathleen Reidy
11:48 am on Monday, September 26, 2011
I moved to blue bell in1968 and lived there till1985, so I saw tremendous growth. There are so many empty store fronts in the area already that haven't been rented in months. 3 in Genuardi's shopping center alone and there is the office complex near PNC bank still vacant after 2 years. The roads around here were not built to handle all the traffic and soon the schools will be too small.
Karen
9:01 am on Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I do agree with that comment Kathleen. I would rather see empty store fronts filled before building new. But when someone comes up with a plan for a empty store front the develpment residents in the neighborhood storm the twp. building and fight it. Those of us that have lived in the area like yourself get it! The new comers in the fancy houses don't.