Downingtown Area School District says it has been advised not to end an agreement with Audubon Land Development to build 1.96 million square feet of warehouse space on 237 acres of farmland in Uwchlan Township. Hundreds of residents have organized and asked the school district to sever the agreement and end the builder’s plans to construct warehouses just north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Downingtown interchange, at the former Siemens property at Lionville Station. Work has already started at a similar project south of the turnpike to build 1.93 million square feet of warehouses on the 169-acre property known as the I-76 Trade Center, at the site of Happy Days Farm. The school district has entered into a contingency agreement of sale with Audubon to purchase the Lionville Station property. The district paid $22 million for the property in 2006 and agreed in July 2022 to sell it for more than $96 million. Audubon recently withdrew a sketch plan submitted to the township, and the district maintains that the builder is free to submit, withdraw or change plans at any time and the deal remains in effect. Read more here.
Source: Daily Local; 9/1/2023