Welcome to Discover Lansdale!

Thank you for visiting Discover Lansdale's website. We are happy to help you get to know what is going on in and around the borough. Over the years, we have brought you many events as well as helped many other organizations with theirs. Our goal is to put Lansdale on the map, one event at a time.

Look for the latest issue of Discover Lansdale Magazine, available at all Discover events and many of your favorite businesses throughout town. This issue's issue: Parking in Lansdale, from the early days of the auto right through today and tomorrow. Check out the handy center-spread map of where to park in town, and how much it might cost.

And while you're at it, get your copy of the second annual Discover Lansdale Business Directory. To see and shop the nearly 200 businesses and services listed, please click here. To use our fun interactive map, produced in cooperation with Lansdale Borough's GIS department, please click here. And to get a copy, all throughout 2017, look for it at your favorite establishments all around town. And remember, SHOP LANSDALE FIRST!!

First Fridays are really rollling! DOG DAYS OF SUMMER, on Aug. 4, rocked with the Pennise Family Band. So did Sept. 1, with the theme Cool for School and music by Love Jones (and, again, no rain). Next up: Oct. 6. Click Here for the full FF season schedule.

Also in a busy month:

-- The huge annual Lansdale Bike Night, sponsored by the Blue Comet MC Club of Skippack, was its usual hit on Saturday, Sept. 9.

-- The Seventh Annual Lansdale Cruise Night, next up, is this Saturday, Sept. 16.

-- Also, registration forms are available on our site for the Fairmount Fire Co. annual Golf Outing, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017. Click here for details.

Discover Lansdale is dedicated to helping support Life in Motion through community growth by creating opportunities for a vibrant and evolving destination for businesses and families to ensure a healthy way of life. We will provide a safe venue for signature events, entertainment, nightlife, shopping and work.

We stage such borough events as Founders Day (and fireworks!), First Fridays including the Zombie Walk and Chili Cookoff, and Cruise Night. We support and sponsor many other Lansdale causes and events. And we own and are in the process of restoring the historic Reading Freight Station. CLICK HERE for a look at all the town's 2017 major events, from Discover Lansdale and others!!

Read below for a plea for your assistance. And click here to donate to Discover Lansdale's Freight Station effort.

Thanks to all for
a GREAT FOUNDERS DAY!

DISCOVER LANSDALE and the borough wish to thank all the volunteers and sponsors who made the day such a rousing success throughout town, from the Festival of the Arts to the fireworks that capped off the night. And let's just say the fireworks display was the best yet!

You might as well mark the NEXT Founders Day on your calendar -- August 25, 2018!! And yes, we've already started planning!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SEPTEMBER RAFFLE WINNER!!

This very happy young man was the winner of the Lionel John Deere train set raffle. Harry Henning of Henning's Trains in Lansdale is presenting him with his new train set.

All the proceeds from the raffle will go to support Discover Lansdale's restoration of the historic Reading Railroad Freight House at S. Broad and Vine Streets. We appreciate the generosity of Henning's Trains in donating the train set and helping out with a great community project.

New volunteer Work Days
scheduled at Freight House

UPDATE: NEW WORK DAYS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER. If you have tools, bring 'em. And if you happen to have a jackhammer lying around the house, even better -- we are still working on pulling up the concrete floor in the back portion of the Freight House.

Join us Sept. 2, 10 and 30.

What to wear:

You must wear closed toe shoes, if you have work boots please wear them.
Gloves.
Safety goggles, we will have some but if you have please bring them.
If you have ear protection bring it, we do have some extra ear plugs though. Inside is very loud if jack hammering is going on.

What to bring:

TOOLS, Our tools and equipment are very limited so bringing work items would be very helpful and appreciated. Try to put your name on them.
Jack Hammer
Hammer (claw hammer helpful)
Pry bar (bigger the better)
Reciprocating Saw
Circular Saw
Rake
Shears
Jack Hammer, oh said that already
Wheel Barrow
If anyone has a couple extra paper garden bags, could be helpful.

What are we doing: (below is a list of items, though may be more)

We need to continue to get the interior floor pulled up so the needed repairs can get started on the floor joists underneath.
Continue the disassembly of the exterior wood platform.
Removal of all vegetation from all around the freight house. There will be a designated location to put all the brush.
Pickup all trash and rake out perimeter.

A big part of the interior floor to be removed yet is a concrete slab. We are about 1/3 of the way through it. ANY help somebody can give with locating another jack hammer or something we can use to bust up concrete would be a BIG help a greatly appreciated. Please, ask around.

Refreshments: As stated we will provide refreshments. Basically that consists of lots of water, pretzels and pizza. Though we will welcome any donations of cookies, snacks or whatever to share.

Please note: This project is a construction work area, not intended for young children.

Fund Raising
We do have a number of fund raising efforts going on. One of them is a raffle of a Lionel John Deere Train Set (donated by Henning’s Trains, $400 value). They are $1 each or 10 for $5. We encourage you to bring a few dollars to buy some raffle tickets. ALL the money goes to the Freight House project.
Lumber Update: As mentioned we are offering much of the reclaimed lumber for sale (see attached). This 115 year old historic lumber is great for all sorts of projects. Makes great shelf boards or used for various furniture projects (tables, benches, etc.) and many rustic craft projects. ALL of the money from the lumber sale will be added to the freight house restoration fund. Lumber will be available for sale during these work days.

Own a piece of local history while supporting this great project!

Freight Station 2017

Friends of Discover Lansdale,

As you may know, in mid-2016 Discover Lansdale, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) civic organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the borough, purchased the stately stone structure to save it from the wrecking ball. The historic RR depot at the southern gateway to downtown Lansdale had fallen into disrepair after years of non-use.

We hope to restore it to its former glory, and more — to make it a welcome center for the town, a showplace for the town’s history and growth, and a resource for the entire community for events and celebrations.

Currently we are in the process of assessing the physical condition of the building, and determining what repairs will be needed to ensure its structural integrity now and far into the future. This, along with other improvements to come, will be a multi-year effort and an expensive undertaking.

Discover Lansdale is counting on you, and folks like you, to fund this effort. We hope you’ll be among the supporters helping to restore the Lansdale Freight Station as a town jewel. Whatever you can give would be greatly appreciated.

To donate online, just click here and click the “Donate” button, or go to the How to Help page under the Freight Station tab.

Or send your check to Discover Lansdale, PO Box 1112, Lansdale, PA 19446. Please note on the check that your donation is for the Freight House restoration. Every dollar you give will go towards that project.

Your donations are tax-deductible; we will acknowledge donations via email, or if you wish a letter of acknowledgement sent, please click the box on the payment page to allow sharing of your contact information with Discover Lansdale.

Thank You for giving back to our community. As always, Discover Lansdale appreciates your support.