Shenandoah Woods Demolition Status Update Expected In Warminster

WARMINSTER, PA —The demotion of the abandoned Shenandoah Woods Navy development will be among the topics at Thursday's Township Supervisors meeting.

Township Manager Tom Scott, in his report, is expected to provide a status update on the demolition.

In late July, Beinke Wrecking was awarded the bid by the Warminster Board of Supervisors for the demolition of the 51-acre property.

The vacant development was designated a blighted area in 2011 by the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority and Warminster planning commission, given the area’s inadequate planning, faulty street layout and economically undesirable land use. In 2012, it was approved to be razed.

Initially constructed as part of Warminster's Naval Air Development Center (NADC), the federal government held on to Shenandoah Woods after the NADC's closure in 1996 and used it as off-base housing, according to a previous Patch report.

After the announcement of that base's closure, the Horsham Land Reuse Authority (HLRA) worked with Warminster and Ivyland to submit a redevelopment plan to the federal government.

While it’s unclear when demolition will begin, you can see video footage of the abandoned Shenandoah Woods from 2021 here.