Monday, December 17, 2012
A funding application is due no later than Feb. 15, 2013
Between the initial announcement of the Lansdale Collaborative Project in April 2011 and today, officials at Advanced Living Communities, North Penn YMCA, The PEAK Center, Manna on Main Street and North Penn Community Health Foundation have been very busy. The groups meet on a weekly basis, and conduct weekly conference calls, all to prepare the best funding application for $17 million in low-income housing tax credits to the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. "We're in the process of preparing our funding application, which is due no later than the close of business on February 15," said Advanced Living Communities CEO and President Bill Brown. "We have a very aggressive plan to have the application complete." Brown said the full team …
Saturday, December 15, 2012
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…
Monday, December 10, 2012
Dan Sokil of The Reporter reports the senior center in Lansdale has moved its business to Schwenckfeld Manor in Towamencin
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Anybody want to buy a former 3-story senior center in downtown Lansdale, assessed at $630,000, with elevator? Dan Sokil of The Reporter reports that the building at 315 W. Main St. in Lansdale — which formerly housed The PEAK Center — is up for sale. The PEAK Center, a senior activities center for the North Penn region, moved to Schwenckfeld Manor in Towamencin last month. PEAK Center Executive Director Robin Burstein was quoted in The Reporter: "The sooner it sells, the better it is for the Lansdale community, the PEAK Center and whoever buys it ... We're hoping that someone will want to put something nice in that building ASAP." Located next to The PEAK Center is 311 W. Main St., also known as the former Lansdale Center for the …
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The Mango Men perform a free concert at 7 p.m. in White’s Road Park in Lansdale as part of the borough’s concert series
1. The Mango Men perform a free concert at 7 p.m. in White’s Road Park in Lansdale as part of the borough’s concert series. 2. Advanced Living Communities, 1290 Allentown Road, Towamencin (Lansdale) hosts “The Exceptions” as part of its ninth-annual Summer Concert Series outdoors at 7 p.m. The Exceptions are a 10-piece party/horn cover band. 3. Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots meet at 6:30 p.m. at Lansdale Library. The AIM group espouses three core values: fiscal responsibility, constitutional limited government and free markets. 4. Play Mexican Train Dominoes today at Lansdale Library at 1 p.m. 5. Two orientation sessions on Montgomery County Community College’s health technology specialist training program are today from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. …
Friday, July 15, 2011
The new expanded Walmart in Hilltown opens today, and Nor-Gwyn Baseball and Softball hosts a six-day tournament.
1. Miss Lisa holds a “One World, Many Stories” Gazebo Storytime today at 11 a.m. Instead of storytime at the Lansdale Library, it is storytime at the gazebo in Upper Gwynedd’s Parkside Place.v 2. Speaking of Lansdale Library, you can check out Toy Story 3 today at 2 p.m. for the library’s Friday Afternoon Movies. Toy Story 3 is rated G and runs for 103 minutes. 3. The Hilltown Walmart, 1515 Bethlehem Pike, unveils its new expansion today at 7:30 a.m. to customers following a ribbon-cutting ceremony. 4. Nor-Gwyn Baseball and Softball will host the 2011 PA American Legion Baseball Region II Tournament, beginning today to Wednesday. The double-elimination event features eight teams from the Berks, BuxMont, Northampton, Lehigh Valley and …
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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 ›