$600K Awarded For Shenandoah Woods Demolition Project

WARMINSTER, PA —The township is getting a $600,000 state grant toward its Shenandoah Woods demolition project.

State Rep. Brian Munroe, who serves the 144th Legislative District, announced the Commonwealth Finance Authority grant is for the township in conjunction with the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority.

The Shenandoah Woods Improvement and Revitalization Project has been part of a decades-long effort to repurpose the former residential development that was abandoned by the U.S. Navy Department.

Shenandoah Woods was approved to be razed in 2012.

The vacant development was designated a blighted area in 2011 by the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority and the Warminster planning commission, given the area’s inadequate planning, faulty street layout, and economically undesirable land use.

The RDA and township acquired the 55-acre property from the U.S. Navy in 2021.

The site was a military housing complex and consisted of 199 townhouse units until it was vacated.

It is the intent of the RDA and Warminster Township to turn the blighted brownfield into a public park and open space area tied into the adjacent 243-acre Warminster Community Park.

The $600,000 grant is for demolition and site preparation costs of the Shenandoah Woods property.

Demolition has been going on for several months in the past year with work nearly completed, township officials said. Officials announced Shenandoah Woods would become a park at a meeting in late January.

“These state grants help keep local taxes down and represent your state tax dollars coming home to our district,” Munroe said. “I’m happy to support local projects that benefit so many of our residents.”

The grant was awarded by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, which oversees the state’s distribution of gaming revenues to support public projects.