Like many older, smaller municipalities throughout Montgomery County, Lower Pottsgrove is outgrowing township facilities that were originally occupied by a few part-time employees. Township commissioners have entered into a contract to buy three parcels of property at the corner of South Pleasant View Road and East High Street for a combined cost of $377,000.

Commissioners President Bruce Foltz said the properties could be used for a new township “campus,” writes Evan Brandt for The (Pottstown) Mercury. 

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Although he noted the new infrastructure committee met in December and recommended the township acquire property suitable “for creation of a campus” for township functions.

Foltz has been on the board of commissioners for 18 years and for almost all of them has argued the current township offices on Buchert Road, built in 1990, are too small to accommodate the needs of the growing township.

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During the past several years, Lower Pottsgrove has experienced a significant amount of growth, reads the township website. Much of this growth is related to the completion of the Pottstown Expressway, or Route 422, which provides improved access to King of Prussia and Philadelphia. This change has prompted the transformation of farmland to residential subdivisions, contributing to the increased population in the Township.

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