Montgomery County · Lower Merion · MCPC #19-0096-003
Bala Plaza Phase 1 - Hotel
231 & 251 St Asaphs Road, Lower Merion, PA · 105,000 sq ft non-residential, mixed use · 61.32 acres
About this project
Bala Plaza Park, LLC proposes the first phase of a larger master plan on land east of One Bala at 231 and 251 St. Asaphs Road in Bala Cynwyd. It would include a 9-story, 168-room hotel of about 105,000 square feet with a restaurant, a 6-story parking garage for roughly 600 vehicles, and a linear public park with outdoor dining and landscaping. The phase also lays groundwork for site utilities and stormwater management, with access from the existing driveway at Decker Boulevard and St. Asaphs Road.
- Applicant
- Bala Plaza Park, LLC
- Engineer / rep.
- Nave Newell Engineering
- Zoning
- RCA
- Tax parcel
- 40-00-57132-00-5
- Cross street
- Belmont Avenue
- Approvals needed
- preliminary/final land development approval, amended master plan approval
Filing history
- 2025-05-15 · MCPC #19-0096-003 · Land Dev Plan, Prelim Plan, Resubmission · 105,000 sq ft
- 2021-08-24 · MCPC #19-0096-002 · Land Dev Plan, Prelim Plan · 757 homes · 989,329 sq ft
- 2019-04-18 · MCPC #19-0096-001 · Land Dev Plan, Sketch Plan · 1012 homes · 1,237,018 sq ft
Scope estimate for contractors
Estimated construction value: $27.3M
- ~116 roofing squares (assumes 9 stories)
- ~262 tons of cooling (rule of thumb 400 sq ft/ton)
- ~8.9 acres of site work (grading, stormwater, landscaping)
- Structured parking garage
- Hotel with restaurant and amenity space
- New interior roadway and temporary roadway connection
- Stormwater management with rain gardens and streetside rain garden wells
- Site utility infrastructure improvements
- Linear public park with landscaping and pedestrian walkways