Advanced Living Cuts Ribbon on 5-Unit Apartment Community
The former Amchick plant at 220 S. Line Street is now income-eligible, affordable housing, courtesy of Advanced Living Communities and Montgomery County Housing and Urban Development
From chicken hatchery to hatching new lives for low-income families. Advanced Living Communities, owners of Schwenckfeld Manor and Derstine Run, cut the ribbon Friday afternoon at 220 S. Line St. in Lansdale for the grand opening of its newest affordable housing project in Montgomery County. The five-unit apartment complex is the former site of Amchick, a chick hatchery that opened around 1949 and has since moved to North Carolina. It stands next to the now Morgan Properties-owned Silk Factory Lofts. Kim Krauter, vice president of operations for Advanced Living Communities, said it was a real pleasure for Advanced Living to try something different. For several years, Advanced Living scouted locations for new affordable housing. Elsie Smith…
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3:56 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012
For all the fuss this neighborhood has made about the YMCA expansion, you'd think they'd be having a fit over this place. These same people are not simply visiting, they are LIVING AMONGST YOU!!!! Woooooooooooooooo!!!! Zombie 'pocalypse and stuff!!!!!!!!! (j/k in case you missed the sarcasm :-) more ›