Lancaster Builds

^{Rendering via Tippets/Weaver Architects}

Excavation is underway at 240 N. Plum St., the site of a multi-building campus on the border of Lancaster City’s Musser Park and East Side neighborhoods. Designed by Tippetts/Weaver Architects for Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning (CHS). Extensive is work is planned across the 3-acre site, including construction of new building on a current parking lot, renovation of the 5-story building at 3 Tobacco Ave, and renovation of a former warehouse at 241 N Plum St featuring 20 ft. ceilings.

The Lancaster campus for Catherine Hershey Schools is one of six total CHS schools planned in Pennsylvania, including two others in Lancaster County; Elizabethtown and New Danville. CHS announced a budget of $350M for building out all the schools and has since spent $15.5M to acquire multiple properties at the corner of North Plum and East Walnut streets comprising the campus.

Foundational work and excavation was conducted this week by The Witmer Group, Melendez Contracting, and BN Excavating.

^{Photo by Joseph Sitzwohl}

^{Photo by Joseph Sitzwohl}

^{Photo by Joseph Sitzwohl}

^{Photo by Joseph Sitzwohl}