Developer Looks At Building Dozens Of New Residences In Hulmeville

The Black Farm along Trenton Road in Hulmeville Borough Monday morning.
Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com

UPDATE: This story has been updated to correct the meeting is March 24.

A developer is looking to construct homes on four parcels in Hulmeville Borough.

Superior Holdings, which is led by developer Eugene Lorenzetti, is eyeing the plans to construct single-family homes, apartments, and townshomes or mix of them at the roughly 40-acre property that was once the Harriet Black farm and Langhorne Wood Products, a company that closed recently and had sold wood pallets.

A special community meeting will be held Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the William Penn Fire Company station in the borough.

The borough said in a social media post that there will be two conceptual plans presented – one for several dozen single-family homes and one that features a mix of apartments, townhomes, and single-family homes. The developer will go over the different plans.

The land where Superior Holdings is seeking to construct the development has been purchased in pieces since 2019 for a combined total of just over $6 million, according to county property records.

A map of the parcels up for development.

According to council minutes from Hulmeville Borough, which has a population of about 980 people, Lorenzetti has been in communication with the town and worked to solicit feedback as he had made plans.

In March 2021, the borough council was told the developer was looking to keep most of the wooded areas of the property intact.

In the past, plans to develop the Black Farm have fallen apart. Mar Marc Builders looked at constructing 47 single-family homes, but that did not move forward.

Harriet Black, who lived at the farm, died in 2016 at the age of 94. She was highly involved in the Hulmeville Borough community and served as the tax collector and borough secretary.