351-383 W Benjamin Franklin Hwy
Douglassville, PA 19508

These majority vacant land parcels are a real estate developer's ideal development opportunity. These two parcels, located at 351-383 W. Ben Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA 19518, are 28.88 acres (1,258,013 SF) in Amity Township, which sits inside southern Berks County. These properties are directly located on US-Route 422, which is a main thoroughfare through this part of Berks County and has an annual average daily traffic count of 35,000 vehicles (according to PennDOT). The first land parcel is 351 W. Ben Franklin Highway, which is a 4.97 acre lot (216,493 SF) that sits in the middle of the overall property, which has a 2,200 SF stone/log single family home on it that was built in the 1950’s and has two (2) units in this home that produce $2,200/month in rent. The second, irregularly shaped, larger parcel is 383 W. Ben Franklin Highway, which is a 23.91 acre lot (1,041,520 SF) and is majority undeveloped woods, with a 2,500 SF log cabin single-family home on it that was built in 1992, along with a 10,080 SF heated barn. These properties have approximately 830 feet of frontage along US-Route 422, offering a lot pf exposure to a new development. These large land parcels are zoned HC, Highway Commercial. The current HC zoning’s Permitted Uses are: A) General agricultural; B) Banks, savings and loan associations and finance companies; C) Professional or government office; D) Church; E) Funeral Home; F) Municipal Use; G) Personal and household service establishments (i.e. barber shop, beauty shops, dry cleaning shops, laundromats, repair shops, massage therapy); H) Public utilities; I) Restaurant; J) Retail business establishment (i.e. antiques, appliances, auto parts, beverages, bicycles, books, carpeting, clothing, convenience store with or without gasoline pumps, dry goods, flowers, food, furniture, hardware, household supplies, jewelry, machinery, newspapers, office equipment, paint, periodicals, pharmaceuticals, sporting goods, stationary and tobacco); K) Professional office/research park; L) Nursing home, retirement home or convalescent home; M) Hotel/motel accommodations; N) Self-Storage; O) Multi-Family Housing. The HC zoning makes these development sites the most valuable zoning, since it allows for the most permitted uses out of any other zoning designation. The property sits only 3.4 miles from Douglasville Shopping Center and the Wawa located on US-Route 422 in Amity Township, which makes it convenient for shopping for future residents of the site. The property is also located only 4.2 miles from the Walmart Supercenter shopping center, a major shopping attraction along US-Route 422 corridor in the neighboring Exeter Township. The site is in Daniel Boone School District; as the high school is only 4.4 miles from these sites. These sites are conveniently located along U.S. Route 422, offering easy access to other surrounding counties of Chester and Montgomery Counties.