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Jan 10, 2008 11:43 pm US/Eastern

Ardmore Residents Voice Concerns On Development

ARDMORE, Pa. (CBS 3) ― The Main Line community of Ardmore is on track for some changes.

Township officials are poised to select a developer for the revitalization project for the train station and the business district. A meeting was held Thursday evening.

"The bottom line is whatever you decide it has got to represent really what we want," Lower Merion Township Ken Haskin said.

Dozens of residents showed up at a township meeting for the selection of the developer and to give officials an earful about what they want and do not want in their community.

"There needs to be a diverse mix of the type of services and the types of retail that we see in Ardmore," Save Ardmore Coalition's Sharon Eckstein said.

"Accessibility, affordability, we want to see creativity. Often times some of the minority groups are not represented well in this community," Household of Faith Deliverance Pastor Mike Brokenborough said.

Several community groups are pushing for diverse retail, more pedestrian access and bike lanes. Also at issue is affordable housing, sighting one new development in Ardmore as the perfect example where several of the town homes were reserved with people with moderate incomes.

The developer that was selected was E.B.L & S and according to the Save More Ardmore Coalition some of the selling points of that plan included a possible small hotel over the train tracks as well as a possible cultural arts center.

In the next step the township will enter into negotiations with the developer to make final plans with the revitalization project.


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