Lancaster Development News

Plans for $16M Franklin & Marshall stadium approved by city Historical Commission


Come the start of the 2017 college football season, the Franklin & Marshall Diplomats expect to take the field in a new $16 million stadium.

The school presented its plan for the stadium Monday to the Lancaster Historical Commission, which approved it.

The stadium will be named for Laurence Shadek, a 1972 graduate and trustee who played football and baseball and is now an investment adviser. His Shadek Family Foundation gave $5 million in 2012 to jump-start fundraising.

College spokesman Kevin Burke said between commitments of more than $10 million, anticipated gifts and institutional funding, the stadium is funded.

Men's and women's lacrosse teams will also use the stadium.

The stadium will be built on a 27-acre tract on the college’s North Campus, across Harrisburg Avenue.

The grassy area was formerly property of Armstrong World Industries.

The red brick stadium with a faux slate roof will be built in the Colonial Revival style to reflect other campus buildings. Its facade will resemble a two-story building atop a mound.

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East Walnut Street site eyed for $18M housing, offices, restaurant project


On the east side of Lancaster city, there’s a short, obscure alley named Tobacco Avenue.

Most Lancaster residents who live outside the neighborhood have never heard of the nondescript alley, which takes an L-shaped path a mere 130 yards long between former tobacco warehouses.

But Tobacco Avenue’s low profile is about to get raised dramatically by a project on an adjoining property.

Two prominent local brothers are proposing an approximately $18 million revitalization of the drab southwest corner of North Plum and East Walnut streets.

Patrick and Peter Egan want to bring 76 apartments, offices and a restaurant to the corner, now home to Weinstein Supply, opposite Lancaster Brewing Co.

The Egans’ development — at a major entrance to the city — would take the name of the street that forms most of its western boundary, Tobacco Avenue LLC.

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