Natural Lands announced that it has acquired 46 acres of open space in Aston Township for a new township park. “It’s been a long but incredibly rewarding process that’s culminated in a huge open space achievement,” said Robyn Jeney, land protection project manager for Natural Lands. “The preservation of this land is especially significant in a community that is almost 100 percent developed and with a density of nearly 3,000 residents per square mile.” Financial support for the project came from the Delco Green Ways Municipal Grant Program and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Recreation and Conservation, as well as Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund, the Commonwealth Financing Authority, the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia and the Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation. “Aston Township is very pleased to have acquired property from the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia along Convent Road,” said Township Manager William J. DeFeo III. “We saw this as a great opportunity to protect the environment and preserve this tract of ground as open space in our township for generations to come.”
Source: Daily Times; 12/8/2023