A shift in how we work has created a lot of empty office space in Newtown Township.
Most of the office buildings in the Newtown Square Corporate Campus are empty or up for lease and are lowering the tax rate tables as a result, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times.
Newtown supervisors voted 4-1 this week to rezone the 90-acre Campus Boulevard special zoning unit so that 250 new homes could be built, as well as other uses such as restaurants or medical facilities.
“Office is dying,” said Newtown Supervisors Chair Leonard Altieri III. “That area has some serious financial issues. We have all become accustomed to the fact that the office complex is very low occupancy … not what it was pre-COVID.”
The new zoning breaks the Campus Boulevard District into two subcategories: east and west, with residential development zoned for the east, around the Newtown Edgmont Little League fields and the Heights neighborhood.
Residents weighed in on the rezoning move, with concerns that an entertainment center or restaurant could now open on their street corner. Overdevelopment with safety and traffic problems were also noted, and more open space and parks were suggested.
Read more about the rezoning change at the Newtown Square Corporate Campus in the Daily Times.
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on DELCO Today in February 2026.
