Developers Present Plans To Reinvent Towamencin Shopping Center

TOWAMENCIN TOWNSHIP, PA — After months of planning and years of speculation, developers presented their plans for the future of the Towamencin Shopping Center to township officials during a board of supervisors meeting last week.

A "modern, open town center design" is planned for the old shopping center, about 20 percent of which would be dedicated to restaurants, according to the proposal presented by Philadelphia Suburban Development Corporation's president, Mark Nicoletti.

The plan calls for an integration of existing buildings with a new senior living center for residents 55 and older, which would be built between the SKF campus next door and the shopping center.

Much of the development would be focused on bringing in small businesses to the reimagined area. Renderings show large sidewalks and a walkable complex, with areas for outside dining as well as a significant amount of landscaping.

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Nicoletti hopes to begin the permitting process later this year, and, assuming things continue to move forward, begin construction sometime in 2020. He added that this timetable was not dependent on the Forty Foot Road widening project, which is scheduled to continue through the late summer or early fall of 2020.

Specific restaurants or businesses have not yet been signed on to the center.

The architect on the proposed project is William Westhafer of NORR.

You can take a look at more renderings of what the area could eventually look like here.