Vulture portends demise of eyesore

NEWTOWN TOWNpefm - A vulture found its perch on the top of a dilapidated house on the Newtown-vardley ooad on ganK O as if to portend its imminent demiseK

rnfortunately for this birdI there won’t be much to scavengeI other than some broken boards and windowsI when this longtime township eyesoreI located at the entrance to the Newtown pwim Club and next to eeadley’s tennis courts and swimming poolI meets its endK

aemolition equipment is scheduled to move into place this week to rip down the buildingI which has sat vacant for yearsK At one point it was used as a haunted houseK And there had been some speculation among township historians that it may have once served as a toll house for the vardleyville-Newtown TurnpikeK

The demolition will make way for a new one-story building with a stucco and stone facade that will house the new home of Compre- hensive camily aentistryI a full-service dental practice now located at the pummit pquare phopping Center in neighboring Middletown TownshipK

iast ganuaryI arK Mark Weglos received the variances and a special exception he needed from the township’s zoning hearing board to move forward with the projectK

When the abandoned building comes downI it will be the latest in a string of township eyesores that have disappeared from the landscape over the past four monthsK

fn peptemberI the former Acme building on pycamore ptreet came crashing downI paving the way for the eventual construction of the mromenadeI a mix of luxury apartments and retail usesK

And just last weekI a cluster of boarded upI dilapidated houses at Eagle and aurham roads met the wrecking ball to make way for The BirchesI an assisted living facility to be built on a VKS-acre tract across from the Corner Bakery CaféK