![]() ![]() Earlier this year, two groups of landscape architecture majors from the school presented the township with project proposals for a town center site located at Sumneytown and Bethlehem pikes. The board is considering implementing a design done by Temple University Ambler students as one possible use for the property. ![]() The vision for the area, as outlined in the plan, is to establish it as a new town center and a focal point for the community by making the shopping district walkable and easy to drive through. Supervisors said the land would give the township the opportunity to further enhance the Bethlehem Pike shopping district, which is one of the goals of Lower Gwynedd’s recently adopted comprehensive plan. Also, she said the house might be used for additional offices at some point as well as for storage. Harper credited fellow Supervisor Hope Fox Coates as the person who suggested Lower Gwynedd try to acquire the historic building. In an interview after the meeting, Harper said the sale of the house, which she estimates is about 300 years old, was agreed upon with the condition that the developer would perform some work on the building in order to “stabilize” it, until the township can put funds toward its renovation. “I think it will be, in the long run, a good purchase for the township,” she said. The house holds significance to the township because it has the spring house that gave the area its name, according to board member Kate Harper. ![]() About one-third of the 59 acres will be open space and Lower Gwynedd has an agreement of sale with Guidi for the purchase of a historic house that sits on the property. to build on the land known as the Clayton/Ingersoll tract, located adjacent to Centennial Park and the Wyndham Woods development. The board gave its approval to Guidi Development Inc. With an eye to the future, the township also purchased a small portion of land on Bethlehem Pike that will play into Lower Gwynedd’s plans for a revitalized shopping district along the road. Preserving a piece of the area’s history, Lower Gwynedd Township’s board of supervisors announced a deal last week that will save the actual “spring house” that inspired the like-named area. ![]()
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