development at swedesford road and valley creek blvd. has begun

For years, we have watched the former faculty housing for Church Farm teachers deteriorate. No that’s not the fault of the school, the land was sold decades ago at this point.

I have followed it here on my blog and so have many in the community. The land has been for sale and vacant forever and we knew this development was coming.

The development is 55 and over so it won’t be putting kids in the school district. It’ll be like a Hershey’s Mill in West Whiteland. However it’s rather dense, and it is yet another reason why in my opinion, whatever happens at the Exton Square Mall needs to have less density. It’s so much development not too far apart.

And even if the mall developer and his attorney, don’t like my opinion, I’m allowed to have it.

Anyway, it’s New Year’s Eve 2025 and the development has begun.

I wish this was less density here because I do not know where all these developers think we are going to put and care for all these additional people? We don’t even have a hospitals to care for our residents now. (Of course this is also why I think that the Exton Square Mall would be the perfect site for a new hospital but developers won’t make enough money on a new hospital will they? What do they care about us getting sick? )

So again, it’s not like this wasn’t approved or we didn’t know it was coming. It’s been very much out there. But it is quite jarring to see the land stripped bare bit by bit as this development begins.

On New Year’s Eve I’m going to make my last play of the year for lawmakers and Harrisburg to get off their asses and do a comprehensive update of the municipalities planning code. There hasn’t been one since it arrived circa 1969 and as I have said innumerable times before, that’s what gave us Chesterbrook.

I’m going to share some of my old photos taken over years past for many years, and a little video compilation.

First the photos:

These were at one time really nice little houses. They could’ve remained nice little houses as starter homes or step down homes for people downsizing.

Here are some additional photos from today: