Lower Providence closed to business Sometime in the November 2011 time frame I introduced Bestline Equipment, as a potential purchaser, to the former Norristown Ford property. An informal presentation meeting was made by the principals of Bestline to the township in December. In attendance at that informal meeting was your township attorney, who made it abundantly clear by his demeanor and conversation that he would discourage Bestline's acquisition of the property. Bestline was looking to create approximately 30 to 40 good paying jobs at this location and would have transformed this rapidly deteriorating property into a community asset. The list of concerns, by three groups of neighbors, produced by your attorney bordered on ludicrous. Obviously the resident directly behind
the Norristown Ford property had entirely too much to say and was allowed to unduly influence the potential sale. How long had this property been an automobile and truck dealership? Thirty years or more. It is obvious that Lower Providence Township is not open for business and is run by an attorney who has no business representing any township government. Instead of finding a way to attract a potential property user, it was easier to just say "no," as government is wont to do. Possibly this letter may find its way to The Times Herald so that residents of the township looking for a good paying job, may now look for the nearby park and contemplate the township's sorry bungling of a potential property purchase. Gary L. Euler Warminster