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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Hanover Approves J.B. Reilly's 55+ Community

Steve Salvesen questions the phased development
It was a good night for developer J.B. Reilly. When Hanover Supervisors met on July 24, they directed their Solicitor to terminate their legal challenge to Allentown's Neighborhood Improvement Zone (NIZ). That's where Reilly has plans for office buildings, a luxury hotel and housing. But that's night all. Supervisors also approved plans for Reilly's 55 plus active adult community on Bridle Path Road, located next to the former St. Frances Academy.

Reilly already has one active 55+ community on Jaindl Boulevard in Hanover Township, named by Where to Retire magazine as one of the top 100 best master planned communities in the United States.

His newest 55+ community, called Traditions of America at Bridle Path, will include 204 homes on a 68-acre lot. It will be built in phases.

In 2007, when this plan was first proposed, over 450 residents, most of them highly critical about traffic and the development's impact on Monocacy Creek, a highly regarded native brown trout stream. But nobody objected to the latest rendition of this development. It includes a substantial conservation easement along the Monocacy, along with improvements to Jacksonville and Bridle Path Roads.

Plans were presented by David Biddison, General Counsel to Traditions Capital.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 6:18 AM

    Reilly is a really good developer and that's why I'm scratching my head on why he would want to get involved in any taxpayer funded project, even if it makes him god awful richer?

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  2. AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 7:11 AM

    nice shirt, Steve. We won't lose you in the parking lot

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  3. AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 7:37 AM

    Sadness.

    This is possibly the last such tract in the immediate Bethlehem area. It parallels the par 5 15th hole at muni. The golf course was considered Hanover Township until Beth Steel engineered a swap in order to provide land for a Bethlehem public course in the mid-50's.


    VOR

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  4. AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 8:22 AM

    So JB didn't even have the guts to show up in Hanover, sent a lawyer. Real class act.

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    1. AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 10:56 AM

      Probably going to be another unfinished development like palumpas last tax dollars misappropreations. Two come to mind the one accross the street from the old salvation army than there is the parking lot of triky niki.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 26, 2012 at 12:41 PM

    hmmm....what "improvements" to Jacksonville road?

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  6. TJDJuly 26, 2012 at 1:37 PM

    Off the top of my head, I believe there will be a left turn lane added southbound on Jacksonville and some stormwater issues will be mitigated. I didn't get a good luck at the plan, but those are two items that were noted.

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  7. Bernie O'HareJuly 26, 2012 at 2:14 PM

    I'll nail them down. I'm sorry. My notes are not handy.

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  8. AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    Jacksonville is over crowded already and that area has no room for a turn lane. They will to take some right of way from the homes there. Please please do not make the road wider...

    one way has a bridge limiting traffic, the other is a small road with nice trees lining the street.

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