Credit: Morrisville Municipal Authority
The Morrisville Municipal Authority closed on 54.3 acres of land at the Keystone Trade Center in Falls Township on Wednesday. The land will be used for a new wastewater treatment facility.
The water and sewer authority that serves about 40,000 customers in Morrisville Borough and Yardley Borough along with portions of Falls Township and Lower Makefield Township plans to have the new facility completed at the site in the next five years.
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The Morrisville Municipal Authority paid $4 million to NorthPoint Development for the land on Wednesday. NorthPoint Development bought the massive former U.S. Steel property at the end of last year for $160 million for the roughly 1,800 acres.
NorthPoint Development is looking to redevelop the site by constructing as much as 15 million square feet of new warehouse space with a total investment of $1.5 billion over the coming years. The developer has stated the project has the potential to add 5,000 to 10,000 jobs.
The Morrisville Municipal Authority aims to construct a new state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility to replace the organization’s existing 60-year-old plant along River Road in Morrisville. A 10 million gallon a day facility will be able to handle growth expected over the next 35 to 50 years.
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As part of the Keystone Trade Center project, the Morrisville Municipal Authority will overtake the existing water and sewer infrastructure at the site.
“I hope people will take an interest in the evolution and advancement this represents for us in this area,” Morrisville Municipal Authority Executive Director John J. Warenda, Jr. said in a statement. “It substantially benefits all of us to have a larger, state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility, and to have somebody operating the utility systems on site to better facilitate development at the Keystone Trade Center by NorthPoint and its partners.”
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The Morrisville Municipal Authority has been meeting with the municipalities it serves since 2015 as they have looked to construct a new facility.
Warenda said final planning, design, and financing for the new plant will be taking place soon.
Previous reporting on the project:
- Construction To Get Underway By July On Massive Keystone Trade Center
- 1 Million-Square-Foot Warehouse For Keystone Trade Center Approved
- First Warehouse Proposed For Keystone Trade Center Project To Come Before Public
- Keystone Trade Center Project Allows Water Authority To Build New Treatment Plant
- Large U.S. Steel Site In Falls Twp. Sold For $160 Million
- County Commissioners Approve Tax Break For Massive Keystone Trade Center Plan
- Tax Breaks Could Help Development At Proposed Keystone Trade Center
- Keystone Trade Center Project Moves Forward
- Ground On Billion-Dollar Keystone Trade Center Could Be Broken By Spring
- Falls Twp. Holding Special Meeting On Proposed U.S. Steel Site Redevelopment
- Plans For U.S. Steel Site Show New Billion-Dollar Development, Potential For Thousands Of Jobs
- EXCLUSIVE: Large U.S. Steel Site To Be Sold To Developer
- U.S. Steel Seeking To Sell Fairless Works Site
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