What were the three biggest news stories on MoreThanTheCurve.com during 2025? The biggest ongoing stories involved the potential redevelopment of historically significant properties and, of course, apartments.
The top three, as selected by MoreThanTheCurve.com, were:
The Steel Plant Closing/Proposed Data Center
The biggest news story MoreThanThanTheCurve.com covered, which also received intense regional, national, and even international coverage, was the closure of the steel plant at 900 Conshohocken Road in Conshohocken (Plymouth Township), the site being listed for sale, and the resulting proposal to convert the property into a two-million square foot data center, and the neighborhood opposition.
As it stands today, the site is listed for sale, and as far as we know, the developer seeking to bring a data center to the site, Brian O’Neil, hasn’t submitted a new application, and it is not on the January 2026 agenda for Plymouth Township’s zoning hearing board.
The Plymouth Meeting Mall
There were three significant news stories involving the Plymouth Meeting Mall over the past 12 months. First, Keystone Development + Investment started the conversion of the office building adjacent to the mall into 150 apartments. These will be the first apartments on the mall property.
This was followed by the sale of the former Macy’s portion of the mall, which was renovated between 2017 and 2019 and now houses Dick’s Sporting Goods, Miller’s Ale House, Burlington, Ideal Image, Edge Fitness, and Michaels. This portion of the mall was not owned by PREIT, which owns the vast majority of the mall property. Since 1988, the former Macy’s section has been owned by a series of entities that are today known as Bayview Associates & Esan, LLC. It has now been sold to an entity associated with Goodman Properties of Jenkintown.
In late November, the really big news hit: the PREIT-owned portion of the mall property was being sold to developer LA Partners. LA Partners’ Dean Adler did a couple of interviews in which he discussed the redevelopment of the middle portion of the mall (between the now-Goodman-owned portion and Boscov’s) into a town center focused on recreational sports fields and courts. Also mentioned were residential units, hotels, and restaurants.
Apartments, Apartments, Apartments
Whether you love them or hate them, the effort to add more apartments in the Borough of Conshohocken, the Conshohocken sections of Plymouth and Whitemarsh townships, Plymouth Meeting (Plymouth Township), and the Borough of West Conshohocken continued in 2025.
In the Borough of Conshohocken, SEPTA selected Alterra as its developer-partner for a potential parking garage/300-unit apartment development near the Conshohocken Train Station. While this development has not yet sought approval, selecting the developer was a major step in the process.
In the Conshohocken section of Plymouth Township, BET Investments continued its informal presentations for the redevelopment of a significant portion of the Conshohocken-Ridge Corporate Center at the intersection of Ridge Pike and Colwell Lane. BET has unofficially proposed a grocery store with 201 apartments, but has not yet submitted an application to start the approval process.
In the Plymouth Meeting section of Plymouth Township, Kingsbury Financial closed the DoubleTree Suites at 640 Fountain Road and shared with MoreThanTheCurve.com its intent to seek approval to convert the hotel into apartments. Kingsbury is seeking a special exception to convert the 253-unit hotel into 213 apartments. An application for the special exception has been submitted, and it is on the agenda for the planning commission and zoning hearing board in January 2026.
In the Conshohocken section of Whitemarsh Township, the Buccini Pollin Group submitted a sketch plan for a mixed-use building that would include 101 apartments and approximately 5,000 square feet of retail space at 1001 East Hector Street, which is the Quaker Park office campus near the Spring Mill Train Station. Thus far, the Montgomery County Planning Commission has reviewed the sketch plan and encouraged the developer to review the recently adopted zoning overlay for the Spring Mill area and reimagine the plan to incorporate overlay requirements, such as open space and trail connections.
In the Borough of West Conshohocken, Buccini-Pollin made a presentation before West Conshohocken’s open space, parks, and recreation committee and unveiled a sketch plan for a nine-story building that would be 178,090 square feet and feature 161 apartments, as well as 2,571 square feet of street-level retail space. No formal application has been submitted.