Montgomery County · West Pottsgrove · MCPC #24-0123-001
Old Reading Pike LD
540 Old Reading Pike, West Pottsgrove, PA · 15,025 sq ft non-residential, industrial · 3.12 acres
About this project
A 15,025 square-foot welding and machinist shop is planned at 540 Old Reading Pike in West Pottsgrove Township, with a fenced outdoor area for material storage. The existing 5,000 square-foot building and its 41-space parking lot, which previously served a bank, will stay, and new stormwater management and landscape buffers are part of the work. The county generally supports the plan but asks for more parking-lot planting, basin plantings, and a sidewalk link to the Wawa on Grosstown Road.
County planning commission: Supports, with comments
Issues raised: Parking exceeds requirement (41 proposed vs. 22 required), Planting islands and perimeter planting needed in parking lot, Additional plantings along eastern property boundary, Stormwater basin lacks plantings, Sidewalk connection to Grosstown Road Wawa, Highway occupancy permit coordination with county Roads and Bridges
- Applicant
- M.J. Nester Equipment Sales, LLC
- Engineer / rep.
- The Crossroads Group, LLC
- Zoning
- Industrial
- Approvals needed
- sidewalk waiver, if sidewalks are not installed
- Utilities
- public water, public sewer
Filing history
- 2024-05-17 · MCPC #24-0123-001 · Land Dev Plan, Prelim Plan · 15,025 sq ft
County review letters
2024-05-17 · WPOTT 24-0123-001r.pdf
Scope estimate for contractors
Estimated construction value: $2.0M
- ~150 roofing squares (assumes 1 story)
- ~37 tons of cooling (rule of thumb 400 sq ft/ton)
- ~1.0 acres of site work (grading, stormwater, landscaping)
- Fenced outdoor material storage area
- Stormwater management basin
- Landscape buffer plantings along south and west property lines
- Parking lot planting islands and perimeter plantings
- Sidewalk installation along Grosstown Road
- Highway occupancy permit work