Hanover Twp. planners evaluation proposed behavioral overall health facility, convent expansion | Lehigh Valley Regional News
HANOVER TWP., Pa. – The Hanover Township Organizing Commission in Northampton County reviewed a sketch strategy for a proposed hospital Monday evening at the township creating.
The facility is provided by Lehigh Valley Wellness Network and Universal Wellness Solutions. It is slated for the corner of Macada Road and Schoenersville Road, across from the Lehigh Valley Hospital Network–Muhlenberg campus. The web-site is presently a vacant, grassy hillside.
The plans contact for a 95,055-square-foot, 144-bed behavioral overall health hospital. The facility will be operated by the joint venture. It is anticipated to generate about 300 new complete-time jobs. A fall 2025 opening is planned.
Hospital officials mentioned Monday evening the hospital would be an expansion of behavioral overall health facilities at the current facility, in the end tripling their current capacity.
Handful of specifics about the operations had been presented Monday evening, but officials did indicate examples of sufferers would contain these becoming treated for alcohol abuse. The creating itself will not be accessible to helicopters and will have some kind of meals service, though no specifics on that topic had been discussed Monday evening. In addition, a targeted traffic study to ascertain the volume generated by the creating will be forthcoming.
Convent expansion
In other news, planners reviewed a preliminary/record land improvement strategy for an addition to a convent.
The addition is provided for the St. Francis Center for Renewal, positioned at 395 Bridle Path Road, recognized as Monocacy Manor. The facility is housed and staffed by the College Sisters of St. Francis, a Roman Catholic religious order named for Francis of Assisi. A single of the projects on the home is the Monocacy Farm, which is managed and operated by the Sisters.
Officials presenting the proposal mentioned the addition — four,600 square feet — would be made use of by the Sisters throughout their retirement and later years. The addition would residence 14 beds.
Planners encouraged deferrals and waivers involving parking, sidewalks and counting of trees on the home.
Gateway Drive
Lastly, a resubmitted strategy for a proposed warehouse was pulled at the applicant’s request. The proposal, provided for 300 Gateway Drive, is the web-site presently of the SureStay Plus Hotel by Most effective Western. The land is close to the northeast corner of an intersection of Route 512 and Route 22.
