Office Park Hopes to Pave Way for 250 Jobs

By next year, the Comcast facility in the 12-acre Pennsylvania Business Campus on Dresher Road could double in size, adding 250 new jobs at the site, officials said.

But, before the building can accommodate more employees, Liberty Property Trust, the campus' management company, needs to expand its parking from the existing 521 spaces for 500 Comcast employees to 655 total spaces, officials said during Wednesday night's Horsham Township Council meeting.

The council took no action on Liberty's land development plan. The governing body is expected to render a decision at its June 12 meeting, according to Horsham Township Manager Bill Walker. 

Once approvals are in hand, construction would begin between now and July 2014, depending on how quickly a lease is signed, according to Anne Cummins, Liberty Property Trust leasing director. 

Cummins declined to say which business is looking to move into the property, or what kind of jobs would be available, other than that they would be "office" jobs. She also would not disclose if any of the jobs would be new jobs for Horsham, or simply resulting from a business relocation.

"They are jobs that exist in Horsham," Cummins told Patch after the meeting. 

Currently, Comcast is situated in half of the 110,000-square-foot space at 700 Dresher Road and the other half is vacant, according to Horsham Township Manager Bill Walker. During a previous review with the Horsham governing body earlier this year Liberty officials had said that Comcast had a "desire to take the balance of the building."

Earlier this year, Liberty had sought relief from the zoning hearing board related to the building expansion. Those approvals have since been granted and land development approval is the last step before construction can begin, officials said.