UPDATE: Concord has amended its announcement saying 1,500 Veolia customers in Bethel Township should continue boiling their water. End Update. Water service is back on in Concord Township, but customers should still boil water until further notice. Concord announced a water main break at 3:06 p.m. after the main at Route 202 and Beaver Valley/Naamans Creek Road was ...
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Concord in brief
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on May 3rd, 2023
• Concord Township Council voted to approve a plan for a self-storage facility to be built at 366 Wilmington-West Chester Pike north of Smithbridge Road near McComb Avenue. The approval, granted during the May 2 meeting, came with multiple conditions, including one to keep trucks off McComb, a private road. There was no formal presentation during the council meeting, ...
Wine and rubber duckies in Concord
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on April 5th, 2023
It was a mixed bag of topics at the April 4 meeting of the Concord Township Council. Council gets a governor’s award, Wegmans wants a new hearing to change its wine sales hours, and the township plans a rubber ducky race. Following a request from an attorney representing Wegmans Food Market, council members are considering granting a new hearing for the store to ...
Concordville Inn to be demolished
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on March 13th, 2023
Concord Township Council last week issued a certificate of appropriateness for the demolition of the Concordville Inn. The property is being sold and the intent is for a new structure for Encompass Health to be used as a medical facility. That new facility would be two stories and be used as a 50-bed, in-patient rehabilitation center. A total of seven conditions are ...
Concord passes budget
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on December 7th, 2022
Concord Township Council members passed the 2023 budget Tuesday night. As anticipated, property taxes remain the same. The budget is balanced with revenues and expenses expected to be $4.1 million and with a total property tax levy of 0.514 mils for properties where there are fire hydrants and 0.453 mils without. (A mil is a tax of $1 for every $1,000 of assessed ...
Concord holds budget hearing
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on November 16th, 2022
Concord Township Council Tuesday night held a hearing for the 2023 budget and the proposal offers no tax increase. Before the hearing, though, council members voted to grant Rosalie restaurant conditional use approval for outdoor dining. That conditional use hearing was held on Nov. 1. Rosalie wants to move into the site of the former Ruby’s Diner in the Shoppes at ...
Just for fun in Concord
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on November 13th, 2022
Concord Township’s Parks and Recreation Committee decided it was time for people in the township to get together just for some fun. So, the committee hosted a dance party at the Brandywine Youth Center Saturday night and an estimated 80 residents took advantage and danced to the oldies. Committee member Allison O’Donaghue said the committee hopes the oldies dance can ...
Rosalie coming to Concord
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on November 2nd, 2022
Rosalie, an Italian restaurant, is eying the Shops at Brinton Lake as a new location. Already in Wayne, Rosalie wants to move into the site of the former Ruby’s Diner. Concord Council wrapped up a conditional use hearing for the restaurant before the start of its Nov. 1 meeting. At issue was approval for outdoor dining, but there won’t be a decision until Nov. 15. ...
Massage license pulled
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on October 5th, 2022
Concord Township Council Tuesday gave preliminary/final approval for a proposed car dealership on Routes 202 and 1 but pulled the massage license for a spa farther south on 202. Council withdrew the permit for Massage Zen at 220 Wilmington West Chester Pike because of charges of prostitution and narcotics. According to solicitor Hugh Donaghue, two of the employees ...
Conditional OK for storage facility
Posted by ChaddsFordLive on August 3rd, 2022
A proposed self-storage facility is one step closer to reality after Concord Township Council granted conditional use approval for the plan during its Aug. 2 meeting. Even with the conditional use approval, the plan must still go through land development with the Planning Commission and then get final approval from the council. The applicant, Premiere A-2 Storage, ...
Concord updates open space plan
Posted by Rich Schwartzman on July 13th, 2022
Concord Township has moved forward with its goal of updating its Comprehensive Recreation, Park, and Open Space Plan. Council voted 6-0 Tuesday night to adopt the plan after a brief presentation by Marc Morfei, a landscape architect with Pennoni Engineers. The goals of the plan are to conserve natural resources, provide for future recreational needs, find ...
