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POTTSTOWN — Less than one week after receiving zoning approval, the developers who plan to transform the former Lastick’s Furniture buildings at Charlotte and High streets have begun to take down the facade hiding the architectural classic hidden beneath. Rockwell Development Group, which has invested more than $25 million in renovation and redevelopment projects in […]

February 1, 2024, Pottstown – Pottstown Area Economic Development (PAED) is pleased to announce the latest project by Rockwell Development Group in the Borough of Pottstown. Less than one week after zoning approval, rehabilitation construction began at 269 and 305 High Street at the intersection of Charlotte Street. Most recently these buildings were home to […]

Construction has already begun on a downtown Pottstown project to convert a former furniture store into apartment and commercial space, according to WFMZ 69 News.

Last week, we discussed a $2.5 million proposal by Rockwell Development Group to rehabilitate two Lastick Furniture Store buildings at High and Charlotte streets into retail and market rate apartments. No entity has a better record of development in Pottstown, which currently totals more than $25 million invested.

For more than 130 years, the Bring- hurst Trust provided affordable housing to needy families in 16 brick half – double homes built on Laurel Street in 1877 with funds left in the will of Wright Bringhurst, a wealthy resident of Trappe who died in 1876.

The conversion of the 19th century Meyerhoff Shirt Factory at Charlotte and Cherry streets, part of the Hanover Square housing development, is now complete, and all 27 of the 2- bedroom apartments created have been leased.

HANOVER SQUARE gateway building stands at the entrance to Pottstown across from the Hanover Street bridge. Second gateway building (white at left) awaits a brick façade. Townhouses (at right) face the Industrial Highway. The project has created an attractive entryway to Pottstown.