Popeyes and Arby’s proposed
Two new fast food businesses are planned in Harleysville.
“A Popeyes and an Arby’s is proposed at Mainland Pointe,” Director of Building & Zoning Mike Beuke told the Lower Salford Township Board of Supervisors at the board’s March 16 morning work session.
The next step in the process will be a conditional use hearing for the drivethroughs, he said.
The proposed Popeyes and Arby’s will be near the existing Taco Bell in Mainland Pointe, he said. The mixed use development on Sumneytown Pike (Main Street, Harleysville, which is also Route 63), received final approval last year. Along with the commercial uses including a Wawa, the development will also have apartments and single-family houses.
There is an existing McDonald’s in the neighboring Henning’s shopping center.
In other Lower Salford news:
• More fine tuning is needed before final plans are developed to replace the township’s public works facilities on Alumni Drive, but the township has preliminary cost estimates,
Public Works Director Doug Jones said.
“The initial numbers are in the $7 to $9 million range for the entire complex,” he said.
That includes demolishing the existing building and making a new building, salt shed, parking area, stormwater management for the site, and a recycling area, he said.
• The Alderfer Road, Briarwyck and Roth Park ponds will be stocked with rainbow trout on March 25 and again on April 7, Jones said.
Opening day of trout season in Pennsylvania is the first Saturday in April, which this year is April 2.
A valid Pennsylvania
fishing license is required to fish in any of the township ponds, streams and/ or creeks, according to the township website. Information is available on the Pennsylvania Fish & Boating website.