About
Stop The Buckingham Warehouse is a grassroots community coalition that aims to bring awareness to a proposed warehouse in Buckingham, PA that will have devastating effects on the community. The warehouse will have a negative impact on the health and wellbeing of residents, damage local roads, and bring 90 tractor trailer trucks per day to roads that are not equipped to handle this level of traffic. Our site is dedicated to informing the public about the proposed warehouse and mobilizing action to stop its construction.
We believe that allowing this warehouse will endanger the lives of children and destroy Buckingham.
About Our Fight
Landowners, The DiGirolamo Family, a local Bucks County political family, have partnered with a New Jersey based developer, JG Petrucci, to build a 150,000 square foot cross-docking distribution center and warehouse with 30 truck bays in Buckingham between Cold Spring Creamery Road, Stoney Lane, Landisville Road, and Burnt House Hill Road. JG Petrucci's plan also proposes a new two-lane access road off of Stony Lane for tractor trailers running immediately behind the homes of our neighbors. This road would also pave over current farmed fields. The potential tenant hasn’t been publicly identified, but JG Petrucci stated at a 2/7/24 planning meeting that the warehouse usage would include 90 18-wheeler tractor trailer trips per day.
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Stop the Buckingham Warehouse is now focused on educating the community about the construction of a warehouse and distribution center that would negatively impact our safety, quality of life, and environment, and ultimately putting pressure on our elected officials, the current
property owners (the DiGirolamo Family), and the developer to stop the development of a structure in an area without the proper infrastructure to support it.
Members of the Stop the Buckingham Warehouse group believe that a warehouse of this size would negatively impact our community, with a focus om the following:
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The safety of our roads and the health and safety of the people who use them. The small local roads and intersections, of both Buckingham and Plumstead were never constructed to safely accommodate the large commercial truck traffic that this warehouse/distribution center will bring. We seek to preserve the ability to walk, run, bike and walk pets along the roads in Buckingham.
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The preservation of our community. The unique character and quaint landscape that is the essence of Buckingham is the reason people come to Central Bucks, and we want don’t want to destroy our legacy for future
generations.
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The preservation of the delicate ecosystem. The proposed truck traffic will significantly increase air pollution and impact the flora and wildlife around Buckingham and nearby towns the trucks travel through.
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Light pollution – the building will be lit by flood lights and the parking lots by street lights that will be illuminated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Hazardous materials – we have asked and to date the developer has not responded to our question regarding what will be stored in the warehouse. We are concerned that there will be hazardous materials stored there which will also be transported by the trucks coming to and from the warehouse/distribution center.
Ultimately, we believe there are far more appropriate uses for the land including a business park, medical offices or other commercial use that does not bring in excessive tractor trailer traffic. The DiGirolamo farm could also be considered for preserved land, park or farm.
We are asking the Buckingham Township Supervisors to refuse any waivers requested by the developer of this warehouse, and to be more forthcoming about all communications regarding the project.