Chipotle and Mattress Warehouse – as well as up to five new retail pad sites – are joining the newly-opened Planet Fitness in a revival of the Towamencin Shopping Village at Forty Foot and Allentown roads in Towamencin Township, according to The Reporter.
Joe Ferrier, co-CEO of Pennsylvania Suburban Development Corporation – the largest landowner in Towamencin – and engineer John Anderson updated township supervisors last week on the revisions to the shopping center. The update also discussed the development soon to take place across Newbury between SKF and the shopping center.
According to the report, revised plans show a two-way driveway across from Newbury Way, new retail and restaurant buildings on both sides of that driveway, and a new development between the shopping center and Planet Fitness.
The plan calls for demolition of the former Boston Market building and construction of a building with a Chipotle and Mattress Warehouse side-by-side, per the report.
Joe Ferrier, co-CEO of PSDC, told supervisors PSDC has “a number of what we feel are very good potential tenants.” PSDC is in talks with an interested tenant for the former Genuardi’s supermarket anchor site, and something could be in place by this week.
Talks on redevelopment to the center date back to 2015, when there was gossip of a movie theater and bowling alley eyed for the site. As of recent, PSDC is gearing up to bring age-restricted housing between SKF and the shopping center. Planet Fitness was approved by supervisors in early 2021 to open at the old Sears Hardware location.
The Store was the final retailer to shutter its doors in February. Last year, its owners – who owned and later sold the property where the shopping center exists in the early 1990s – sold The Store to PSDC for $1 million, according to Montgomery County property transfer records.
PSDC has plans to develop the open space between Planet Fitness and the shopping strip where the likes of Little Professor Booksellers, Postman Plus, Via Marconi Pizza Pub, Headquarters for Hairstyling once did business.
According to the report, there are plans for two pad sites at a new signalized intersection at Newbury Way, fronting on Forty Foot Road. One pad site would be a drive-through restaurant. There would be an internal driveway behind the new pad sites that connects the extended Newbury Way with the SKF parking lot and the shopping center.
Read more about the development at this link.
See also:
Planet Fitness Coming to Former Sears Hardware in Towamencin Following Health Club Use Approval
The Store Outfitters in Towamencin to Close After Nearly 70 Years
Multiple Businesses Eyeing Locations at Towamencin Village Shopping Center
PSDC Moves Closer to Retail, Age-Restricted Housing on Forty Foot Road
