Plan to turn Pennhurst site into massive data center outrages neighbors

Megan Heiken recently bought a home near the former Pennhurst State School and Hospital, once a center for people with developmental disabilities that now operates as a popular haunted Halloween ...
CNN

Visiting former mental asylums: Hopeful, haunted or ‘nightmare factories?’

Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of ...
The Mercury

East Vincent drafting data center ordinance

EAST VINCENT — Township officials and activists are working to deal with the possibility of both a data center and a tire-burning plant being built on the property once occupied by the Pennhurst State ...
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Former Pennhurst Site in East Vincent Considered for Data Center, Plant Development

East Vincent Township officials and activists are looking at the potential for the former Pennhurst State Hospital property to be developed as a data center or tire-burning plant, writes Evan Brandt ...