Sunday, February 6, 2011

Board gives push to zoning change

 

By The Reading Eagle Company

The Perry Township Planning Commission is recommending that the township rezone a 15-acre parcel at Routes 61 and 662 to commercial from light industrial.

The 4-1 vote Wednesday begins to pave the way for a retail complex on the northeast corner of the intersection. Edward J. Walsh IV of McCarthy Engineering Associates, West Lawn, said Shoemakersville developer Eugene Bell hopes to build several stores and retail shops at the northeast corner.
The other corners are zoned commercial and have restaurants and a convenience store with gas pumps.

Walsh said Bell owns 38 more acres and they would remain zoned light industrial.

The land is adjacent to a residential development, proposed by Bell, of more than 100 units.

Planner Nancy A. Rogers voted against the rezoning, but did not say why. Planners Richard A. Furnanage and Alton Rohrbach were not present.

In other business, township Engineer Joseph H. Body said that preliminary plans for a commercial center just west of Route 61 are not ready for approval.

Body said a proposed design for the 16-acre parcel, just north of the former Boyer's Food Market and near the Shoemakersville pool, needs to show improved access for tractor trailers.

"If people can't get in, the business will lose out," he said.
Grant T. Smith, senior project manager with Stackhouse Bensinger Inc., Sinking Spring, said that the plan design would be revised.

Smith said the Federal Emergency Management Agency recently approved the building of a planned driveway across a stream tributary just east of Market Street.

Owner-developer Scott G. Homel of Jenkintown, Montgomery County, said he has reserved sewage treatment capacity at the Shoemakersville sewage treatment plant and wants to proceed with the project as soon as possible.

A convenience store and pharmacy are planned on the tract, he said.

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East Penn acquires former Caloric site

By The Reading Eagle Company

East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc., near Lyons, has purchased the Maulfair Medical Center building at 403 N. Main St., Topton.
According to documents filed with the Berks County recorder of deeds, the price paid was $1.95 million.

Daniel R. Langdon, East Penn's president, said the property is contiguous to the company's distribution facility.
Langdon said East Penn likely will use the property for office space, but has no firm plans for it at this point.

The property, on about two acres, was a part of the former Caloric Corp. , which closed in July 1991 after more than a century in the borough. Caloric was an appliance manufacturer.

Langdon said East Penn over the years has acquired most of the former Caloric property from Raytheon Corp., which bought Caloric in 1967.

"We have substantially all of it," Langdon said, adding that East Penn made its initial purchase of Caloric property in 1996.

That was the same year that Conrad G. Maulfair Jr. and his wife, Coleen M. Maulfair, of Maulfair Medical Center purchased the Main Street property.

It also was the same year that the Department of Environmental Resources released Raytheon from liability following its cleanup of the site.

In the 1990s following the plant shutdown, Raytheon spent more than $7 million on the cleanup.

Contaminants included chromium deposits in the soil and PCE, or perchloroethylene, in the groundwater. Both are considered cancer-causing chemicals. Underground storage tanks also were removed.
Kevin Sunday, a spokesman for DEP's southcentral regional office, said the property was cleared for groundwater, as well as for metals (including chromium and copper) and chlorinated solvents that had been in the water.

Langdon said East Penn conducted an environmental study of the property before buying it.

Coleen Maulfair said the medical center is still in the Main Street property and is leasing space from East Penn.



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Thursday, January 27, 2011

MedExpress opens in Muhlenberg

 

Reading Eagle Article www.ReadingEagle.com

MedExpress Urgent Care opened an urgent-care center today at 3407 N. Fifth Street Highway, Muhlenberg Township.

The office, open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., employs 30.
Dr. Frank Alderman, chief executive of the Morgantown, W.Va.-based company, said the office provides prompt care for episodic illnesses or injuries that are not perceived to be life-threatening.

"Anything life- or limb-threatening - a gunshot wound or significant trauma - should go to the emergency room," Alderman said. "But a broken ankle, stitches, asthma, pneumonia - all that stuff is welcome at MedExpress."

He said that a physician and registered nurse are always on site.
Alderman said the company also works with employers to minimize the amount of time that a worker would lose if he had to go to the ER.
The company is in the networks of most insurance companies, but also offers payment plans for the uninsured, he said.

MedExpress was founded in 2001 and has 52 locations in country.

MedExpress opens in Muhlenberg

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Arthritis center expands in Spring Township

January 28, 2011

The Arthritis & Osteoporosis Center Inc. has been providing treatment in Berks County for more than 35 years. The practice, founded by Dr. Jerome S. Weisberg, has grown to 45 employees, including six board-certified rheumatologists. So it was no surprise that the practice outgrew its 10,000-square-foot office at 401 Buttonwood St.

After a year-long search, the practice moved to a new 20,000-square-foot office on Century Boulevard in Spring Township. The office is near several overlooking the Broadcasting Square Shopping Center.

Rheumatologists are medical doctors who specialize in arthritis and related diseases.

Diseases of the joints, muscles and bones can include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, gout, back pain, myositis, fibromyalgia and tendonitis.

The rheumatologists design individualized treatment programs. The doctors were able to custom-design the space to fit the needs of their patients.
Dr. Peter D. Nicholas Jr. said they did so with the assistance of a popular city architect.

“William Vitale of Designworks Architects, Reading, was pivotal in the development of our green building,” Nicholas said. “When we looked at this building, it was an empty shell. This is a great central area with easy access. This is becoming a doctor’s hub of the area.”

One of the green features is 21 sun tubes on the roof, which illuminate the common areas. When there is enough sunlight to illuminate the tubes, the fluorescent lighting turns off.
The doctors’ offices are designed in pods that allow exam rooms and offices to surround the nurses’ station for communication and patient flow, he explained.
“The bottom line for us when designing this building was the idea that our patients are the most important aspect of the practice,” he said. “We treat our patients as if we are treating our own parents.”

Nicholas said a 2,000-square-foot physical therapy room was added.

“All of our doctors were sending patients out for physical therapy, so we thought it would be integral to have our own physical therapy here in our building,” he said.
The practice is a testing facility for new drugs.
“We get to use drugs years before they receive Federal Drug Administration approval,” Nicholas said. “That gives us a hand-up with the use of anti-rheumatic drugs.”

NAI Keystone’s Bryan Cole represented the property that The Arthritis & Osteoporosis Center Inc. purchased in Spring Township PA.  The site was owned and sold by Kinsley Properties who also built the facility.

Bryan E. Cole
NAI Keystone Commercial & Industrial, LLC
www.Bryan-Cole.com
Bcole@naikeystone.com
direct: 610-370-8502
3970 Perkiomen Avenue
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Reading, PA 19606

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