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"Tobacco Avenue project at Walnut and Plum intersection could break ground this year"

TIM STUHLDREHER | Staff Writer LNP

"The Lancaster City Planning Commission approved a final plan Wednesday for Tobacco Avenue, warmly praising the mixed-use development that two brothers are planning at the southwest corner of North Plum and East Walnut streets, across from the Lancaster Brewing Co.

The tentative schedule had called for the project to be completed in two phases starting early next year, but Patrick Egan told LNP Thursday the hope now is to break ground in early November.

Egan, founder of the security firms Select Security and Security Partners, is redeveloping the site with his brother, Peter, owner of the Caldwell, Heckles & Egan construction firm.

“We’re really going to make this corner look terrific,” he said.

Originally pegged at $18 million, the budget will probably be closer to $20 million, he said.

The project will enable Select Security to bring about 70 jobs back into the city, relocating employees who are now in suburban overflow space, he said.

That includes about 30 recent hires, an expansion needed to serve the 28,000 clients Select Security took on in June when it acquired the U.S. portfolio of Canadian firm AlarmForce. The deal nearly doubled Select Security’s customer base.

The resulting complex will include 76 market-rate apartments, a restaurant, and offices and operational space for Select Security and Security Partners."

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