Limerick 30-Acre Project, 422 On-ramp Progress

Fuzzy Photos by Evan Brandt

This new configuration of town homes, part of the proposed 30-acre Limerick Town Center project, was preferred by township supervisors Tuesday over the one presented two weeks ago.

Two major construction projects were reviewed by Limerick Township Supervisors Tuesday night.

The first, known as Limerick Town Center is located on 30 acres at the intersection of Ridge Pike, Lewis Road, and Swamp Pike.

It calls for a large senior living facility at the center, 160 townhomes and commercial retail buildings along Ridge Pike, as well as a re-alignment and extension of Lewis Road into a traffic circle for the new intersection of Ridge, Swamp and Lewis.

But it was only the townhomes on the agenda for discussion last night. The developers, Ridge-Swamp Associates LLP had, after getting input from the supervisors last week, re-arranged the townhomes to make the project less linear.

The change allowed for larger two-car garages on some models all of which reduced any potential parking problems.

The developers also reduced to one the entrances off Swamp Pike. The new configuration pleased the supervisors and attorney Bob Brant said that is the configuration they will bring to the planning commission on June 28.

The yellow loop shows the location for the new on-ramp.

Also up for an update is a project that began back in 2008, a new westbound
ramp onto Route 422 from Evergreen Road.

The new ramp will allow shoppers leaving Costco and the Philadelphia Outlets to get onto 422 west without having to make the dangerous left across opposing traffic on Evergreen Road.

Joe Platt from Traffic Planning and Design said the project will be reviewed by PennDOT in August and that construction will most likely take most of 2019.

Much of the $1.8 million project is being covered by PennDOT grants and the local share is being split between Limerick and Lower Pottsgrove, with 65 percent of the local share being paid by Limerick.

That money, said Township Manager Dan Kerr, is being drawn out of the traffic impact fees the township has charged developers for years and no local Limerick tax money is being used to pay the township's share.

Here are the other Tweets from the meeting:

Town Center Plan Re-Drawn