Shenandoah Woods Work Completed In Warminster

WARMINSTER, PA —It's now a clean slate.

After a decades-long effort to repurpose the abandoned U.S. Navy Department property and construction over the past six months to clear it, township officials declared Friday that the remaining work on Shenandoah Woods is finished.

"The Board of Supervisors is happy to report that the concrete slabs for the previously abandoned Navy houses at Shenandoah Woods are all now removed," the township posted on Facebook. "No more houses, no more pads." Watch the video of the cleared slabs.

They will still remain closed to the public while planning analysis is in process for the prospective conversion of Shenandoah Woods into a passive park.

"It's been a long time coming," Township Supervisors Chairman Kenneth Hayes told Patch Friday.

The township, in conjunction with the Bucks County Redevelopment Authority, had received a $600,000 grant from the Commonwealth Finance Authority for the demolition of Shenandoah Woods.

Township officials designated $289,000 of that to have 200 building slabs removed after houses had been demolished over the past six months.

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.

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.