Overview

• Developers plan to start construction after Thanksgiving 2025, with work expected to take about two years and finish by fall 2027, according to township officials.
• The five-story project will bring 270 apartments, nearly 30,000 square feet of retail, and about 480 parking spaces along Lancaster Avenue between Ardmore and Greenfield Avenues.
• Plans were approved in 2021 and are exempt from Lower Merion’s 2019 three-story height limit because the application predated the ordinance.
• A previously envisioned grocery store was dropped because it would have required two underground parking levels that became financially infeasible as interest rates rose; smaller dining options are now expected.
• Negotiations produced over 100 public parking spaces, rear-site traffic routing, new pedestrian crossings, and an extension of West Athens Avenue to improve connectivity near Haverford College.