Warehouses

When Rebecca Smith bought her home in the Poconos, she’d thought she found the perfect place to spend time with her grandchildren and soak in the outdoors. Now, she says a 702,000 square foot warehouse threatens to take her dream away.

Rural Pennsylvania’s 2024 was punctuated by lawsuits over environmental issues. Municipalities, residents and developers all seem to be asking, ‘How do we protect the environment while not interfering with economic growth?’

As Coolbaugh’s Board of Supervisors fend off a lawsuit over environmental regulations, leaders are looking at new options to preserve township land.

About 70 people from around the Poconos begged the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to stop the region’s newest warehouse.

Kidder Township rewrote its warehouse ordinance to increase environmental protections. The township’s largest commercial developer, Blue Ridge Real Estate (BBRE), says the amendment violates state law.

College student Mariam Bangurah is scared for her niece and nephew as a warehouse development looms in her backyard.

A dispute over Coolbaugh Township’s authority could alter municipalities’ power to revise ordinances.

Blue Ridge Real Estate’s president and CEO responded to questions and allegations from Kidder Township residents on Friday.

Kidder residents persuaded supervisors to take the first step this week in changing the township’s zoning ordinance.

Kidder Township residents say the township’s zoning ordinance allowed a developer to run rampant with a warehouse expansion.