Andrew Whalen 🚶‍♂️ I’m walking here

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Adaptive reuse converting a locomotive engine works and warehouses plus new construction at the corner of Walnut and Plum into an early childhood education center. Original corner building has floor to ceiling windows and stucco exterior. New buildings are brick with even larger windows.

Making huge strides at the Catherine Hershey Early Childhood Education Center on Walnut and Plum. Great adaptive reuse ♻️

The renovation was designed to meet “passive house” certification, a rigorous international sustainability standard that drastically reduces a building’s energy use through airtight insulation, efficient windows and mechanical ventilation that recycles heat.

Lancaster homeowner’s energy-efficient renovation sparks clash over historic preservation [Lancaster Watchdog] A Lancaster city homeowner’s effort to make his house a highly energy-efficient property has turned into a dispute over whether the city should prioritize historical character over environmental impac...

“We’re trying to do something that’s atypical and out of the box,” Pellman said. “We have an active permit, but the historic board wasn’t notified early on. Now we’re stuck waiting — we were told we could proceed, but we can’t schedule inspections. There’s not a lot of clarity.”

The New York Stock Exchange will leave along with the billionaires and the middle class will have to pay all the taxes — So they will leave too.
False: There is no middle class 😆

Indoor hydroponic farm using recycled water and lighting to grow food.

Perhaps a not so crazy idea…
Can we build hydroponic farms adjacent or on top of AI data centers?

Farmland to front porches: Homes become Cumberland County’s cash crop Cumberland County’s new identity is rooted in large, elaborate mixed-use developments being built on former farmland.

Another disheartening headline. Nearby Lancaster County has a similar problem. Despite heroic farmland preservation efforts, we continue to make the same mistakes.

Hope

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We all know the history of many nursery rhymes.
So… How long after we stop vaxxing until there is a whole new book of nursery rhymes for this generation? #RingAroundtheRosie #LondonBridgeisFallingDown #KidzBop

You and @philrosenthal.bsky.social should team up. By now you must know every restaurant in the City.
This guy from Lancaster is wishing you the best of everything this coming Tuesday and beyond.

Andrew is wearing a red flannel, rolled jeans, boots and suspenders. He looks like a hipster or lumberjack. You decide!

I woke up thinking…Maybe I’ll be a lumberjack for Halloween. Please don’t call me a 2012 worship leader. #IYKYK

Andrew and Joy in the portico decorated for the holidays.

Lillian in the portico decorated for the holidays.

Lillian and Joy in the portico decorated for the holidays.

And the portico too.

Andrew, Lillian (his daughter), and Joy in front of a holiday decorated East Wing

Eat Wing hallway decorated for the holidays

Not even a year ago 😮‍💨

Only problem with this proposal?

I don’t think 20,000 units is enough. 8,000 acres x 7 units = 56,000 This is what I would consider the minimum density for development— probably more by a train station.

NJ Transit proposes developing unused land to raise $1.9 billion - Trains NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit could raise up to $1.9 billion for its operations over the next 30 years through development of more than 8,000 acres of unused agency-owned real estate, the transit operator...

You down with TOD?
Yeah you know me!

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

“It’s petty revenge politics that would screw hundreds of thousands of New York and New Jersey commuters, choke off our economy and kill good-paying jobs.”

'Rain and speed' contributed to Columbia crash that hurt driver, sent car flying into home A crash sent a car airborne before it struck a home and landed on top of several wires Monday afternoon in Columbia Borough.

🙃

5-story apartment building under construction. Beautiful sunrise in the background.

Not every residential build needs to be sexy. Just give me clean lines, density, and an abundance of amenities.

broken up piece of road next to the sidewalk.

PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.

For business and first class passengers:
✔️Free shoe shines
✔️Onboard conference room by reservation
✔️Cloth headrests and travel neck pillows
✔️Door-to-door baggage service

For first class passengers:
✔️First class quiet section
✔️Massage chairs pads
✔️Onboard and metropolitan lounge massage services

The upgrades also propose the following coach features:
✔️Free onboard entertainment system for music, TV and movies
✔️Cafe lounge with water cooler and bottle filling station
✔️Kid’s play area

America’s Fastest Coach Train Service Between Boston And Manhattan Could Roll Out By Spring 2026—With Massages, Shoe Shines, & Play Areas Currently, Bostonians’ only option for high-speed train service connecting to Manhattan and several other destinations along the Northeast corridor is the newly launched . These trains travel at speed...

Game changing?

✔️Hourly Boston to New York/Washington express service
✔️Free seating for kids under 18 with purchase of adult/senior ticket
✔️Hourly nonstop and limited service routes between New York and Washington D.C.

Lancaster got a two-story public library on the ground level of a downtown parking tower 😕

Brick garage

What was formerly a garage will soon provide housing and there will be plenty of room to park two cars.

Two floors over a two car garage ADU under construction.

More of this in Lancaster please! #ADU

As I watched a fire truck and ambulance helplessly stuck in traffic… I believe that we have to do better. The same solution for moving busses can work to benefit our first responders.

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Remember the Toxic Waste Dump in SimCity? Is that what Ai data centers are to us today?

Andrew drinking a chai at Square One coffee shop

Andrew and Joy buying peaches at farmer’s market stand

49, but I’ll be 50 this month. Do you all think the beard ages me as much?

Lancaster City residents express frustration, concern over construction of AI data centers Lancaster City announced the data centers would be built in early 2025, but many community members feel they have been left in the dark about the planning process.

The battle over 2 Ai Data Centers in Lancaster City continues…

My annual reminder that it’s totally ok to say “Happy Holidays” and even more so right now…as my Jewish friends honor Yom Kippur and my Hindu friends celebrate Dashain.