LOWER NAZARETH TWP., Pa. – Land at the center of a disputed warehouse project in Northampton County has been sold to PPL Electric Utilities.<\/p>\n
County property records show PPL paid $2 million for the 11.7-acre property at 4215 Lonat Drive in Lower Nazareth Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sale was recorded on September 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The seller is\u00a0Northampton Farms LLC, an affiliate of the Jaindl Land Development company, which had proposed building a 72,850-square-foot warehouse on the site.<\/p>\n
Those plans date back to at least 2023. Jaindl also has proposed a much larger,\u00a0450,000-square-foot warehouse nearby, at 523 Nazareth Pike (Route 191).<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Lower Nazareth Township granted a time extension for both projects through the end of the year. Both projects previously were denied\u00a0conditional use requests by the township’s board of supervisors; the appeal process is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Township officials were unaware the Lonat Drive property had been sold when reached by 69 News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The site is undeveloped agricultural land. Several businesses are to the west, including Valley View Diner and Kitchen Magic. Gradwohl Switch Road is south of the property. The parcel is bordered by more agricultural fields to the north and east.<\/p>\n
PPL Electric told 69 News it purchased the property for the potential future location of an electric substation on the distribution system.<\/p>\n
“As our service territory continues to grow, we periodically acquire property that may support future electric infrastructure needed to maintain reliable service for customers,” a company spokesperson said in an email.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said planning and development activities are still preliminary, and the company does have any additional details to share at this time regarding potential construction timelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER NAZARETH TWP., Pa. – Land at the center of a disputed warehouse project in Northampton County has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,60,5750],"class_list":["post-297907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-nazareth-northampton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}