Well, it's back. The long-running tug-of-war over what gets built on the former Cleveland-Cliffs property has a fresh chapter, with a new application landing in front of local officials. MONTCO.Today reports the proposal once again involves a data center, the kind of project that promises tax base in one breath and raises eyebrows about traffic, noise, and power draw in the next.
For families living anywhere near the riverfront, this one is worth tracking. The site sits in a part of town where Conshohocken keeps trying to decide what it wants to be when it grows up, and a data center is a very particular answer to that question. Read the latest at MONTCO.Today.
Worth pairing with another local development story. SEPTA is moving forward on a transit-oriented project tied to the Conshohocken station, which leans the other direction, denser housing near rail rather than industrial reuse. Two very different visions of the same square mile, both alive at the same time.