$2.7 Million Cost to Fix Hatboro Facilities
Architectural firm Thomas Comitta Associates Inc., as part of a facilities study, suggests that Hatboro make use of existing park space and reconfigure borough buildings.
Renovate, not replace. In a nutshell, that was the overall message that Thomas J. Comitta, president of West Chester-based town planners and landscape architect firm Thomas Comitta Associates Inc. recommended to the Hatboro Borough Council during Monday night's meeting. Comitta, who has worked in his profession for four decades and represented 115 municipalities, had been hired last year to carry out a facilities study of borough-owned buildings to determine how best to plan for the future. On Monday, he shared that $2.7 million worth of "adaptive reuse" fixes made more sense than previous plans to demolish and build anew. In all, Comitta said he looked at borough hall, the adjacent borough hall annex where Victorian Village Italian…
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Luvz Koalas
12:26 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Eaton Park could use a larger parking lot. I do my power walking there sometimes and during the summer when the pool is open there have been occasions when I’ve had to go elsewhere because the parking lot was filled with the Hatboro Pool patrons. I know this for a fact because when I am able to park there during the summer, I have seen a lot of people either park there and cross the street to go … more ›