The tug of war over what rises on the old steel plant grounds just across our border keeps escalating. On July 21, developer Brian O'Neill, working through the entity 900 Conshohocken Road, LLC, filed a substantive validity challenge with Plymouth Township tied to his proposed data center, according to MoreThanTheCurve.
Plymouth Council did not take that quietly. In a July 27 livestream, the township claimed the developer had backed out of previously agreed-upon conditions, and in a follow-up statement the council said the current application "blatantly disregards the health, welfare, and safety of the community," per Plymouth-Whitemarsh Patch. Council also used the phrase "demanding approval by tantrum," which is not the sort of language local governments toss around lightly.
Why does a Plymouth Township land use fight land on a Conshohocken front page? Because that former steel plant site sits right at our shared edge, and whatever eventually gets built there will shape traffic, power demand, and the skyline our kids grow up looking at. Worth watching.