Lansdale Municipal Complex Renovations Talk of Town Hall
At the informal Lansdale Town Hall Session Tuesday night, residents and officials discussed a plethora of items — among them the potential renovations of 1 Vine Street and vacation of Railroad Avenue
What was once the home of the Dewey Decimal System is now home to the criminal justice system. What was once the post is now host to votes. Lansdale Police Department and Lansdale Borough Hall have history to them: The former was the Lansdale Library in the 1950s and the latter was the original Lansdale Post Office in the 1930s. Now, both buildings are the center of a facilities update in the borough. Both were deemed in poor condition, with countless mechical, structural and aesthetical problems, insufficient and tight spaces, and poorly-designed layouts. Council can choose to build onto them or demolish them in favor of new state-of-the-art buildings — or do nothing. The municipal complex renovations were the talk of Lansdale's Town Hall…
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Edward G Scheuring
10:58 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
I am in total agreement with Mr. Henning. "A big NO for options 3 & 4. At the very least the outer walls should preserved & reused for new building. This is done all the time to old buildings in the city. That is a landmark building in Lansdale and we need to stop just tearing them down and regretting it later.". more ›