A new location at Allentown and Forty Foot roads adds another option for tool shoppers
Harbor Freight Tools has opened a new store in Towamencin Township, expanding its presence in Montgomery County and giving local shoppers another destination for tools, hardware, and automotive and home improvement supplies.
The store, located at 1758 Allentown Road next to Planet Fitness, sits at the intersection of Allentown and Forty Foot roads, just outside Hatfield and Lansdale. The Towamencin location joins an existing Harbor Freight store in Montgomeryville, located about five miles away along Bethlehem Pike, near Ocean State Job Lot and Target.
Founded in 1977 as a Southern California mail-order business, Harbor Freight has grown into one of the nation’s largest tool retailers by working directly with manufacturers and passing savings on to customers. The company now operates more than 1,600 stores nationwide, including more than 65 locations across Pennsylvania.
The Towamencin store carries a wide selection of tools and accessories across categories including automotive, power and air tools, generators, welding equipment, outdoor power equipment, storage, shop equipment, and hand tools. Many items are sold under Harbor Freight’s exclusive in-house brands, such as ICON, HERCULES, BAUER, U.S. GENERAL, and PREDATOR.
To mark the opening period, the company has been running limited-time in-store promotions, including free zip ties, microfiber towels, or an LED work light with any purchase through Jan. 11 when using the Harbor Freight mobile app.
The Towamencin location operates from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
According to The Reporter, Philadelphia Suburban Development Corp. has proposed plans to revive the former Towamencin Village Shopping Center since the early 2010s, with an entertainment lifestyle overlay district approved in 2016 amid promises of new tenants that at times have included Whole Foods inside a former grocery space, a new Target behind the center, new tenants, including Harbor Freight, and a new building housing a Chipotle restaurant and Mattress Warehouse shop on a pad site adjacent to the center.
Per The Reporter, an earlier version of those plans, shown in 2018, included age-restricted apartments behind the shopping center, and in 2022, the developer said they had seen little interest from the market for age-restricted housing, thus a request this June for a new plan for apartments with no age restriction. In August, the developer sought further permission to build on four pad sites between Forty Foot and an office building formerly used by SKF Inc., remove aboveground stormwater basins and add underwater retention, and build a long-discussed driveway and signal on Forty Foot at Newbury Way, while residents called the shopping center a “ghost town” and pressed for action soon.
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