Lansdale Madison Lot Redevelopment Plan Ekes By in 3-2 Vote

Just made it.

The future redevelopment of Madison Parking Lot into 21,000-square-feet of retail space, a skate park, parking garage, 250 apartment units and 540 parking spaces eked by at Wednesday night's Lansdale Parking Authority meeting in a 3-2 vote.

Parking authority members Tom Work and Todd Brown voted against accepting the March 13 sketch plan from Equus Capital Partners (formerly BPG Properties) and negotiating an amendment agreement with Equus to the purchase and sale of the site.

According to Dan Sokil of The Reporter, resident and Democratic council nominee Richard Strahm called Wednesday's night's vote a "crossroads" in the lot's current dilapidated state and Lansdale's revitalized future.

"We have the ability to generate greatness in our crumbling Madison Parking Lot, and help propel Lansdale to the future that it deserves. Or we can just sit at the curb and watch the future pass us by," Strahm said in the article.

Read more on the Madison Parking Lot Redevelopment:

• Madison Lot Redevelopment Sketch Plan Unveiled
• Standing-Room Only Crowd of Taxpayers Support Madison Lot Redevelopment
• Madison Lot Redevelopment on the Horizon
• Two Firms Selected to Present Madison Lot Redevelopment Plans
• Parking Authority Selects BPG As Madison Lot Developer
• Gov. Corbett Awards $2.5M Grant to Lansdale Redevelopment Project