Freedom Square: A Master-Planned Mixed-Use Community
Freedom Square is a planned 456-acre mixed-use community in Conewago Township, York County. Led by Timothy F. Pasch Inc., the development is envisioned as a long-term community with a broad mix of residential, commercial, senior living, recreation, and open-space uses. Rather than functioning as a single-use development, Freedom Square is designed to bring multiple pieces of daily life into one coordinated plan.
RGS Associates supported the early planning and approval process by helping translate that vision into a workable sketch plan. With eight phases anticipated, the project required careful attention to existing topography, streams and wetlands, circulation, infrastructure, land use relationships, and the sequencing of future development across the full 456-acre site.
Coordinating a Complex Site Plan
For a project of this size, the planning process had to address more than site layout. RGS helped evaluate how a site with rolling topography and sensitive environmental resources could support future development while accounting for road access, traffic movement, utilities, stormwater, and environmental protection.
A proposed roundabout at the Canal Road entrance was part of the early planning conversations, along with anticipated traffic impact studies, roadway improvements, and potential public infrastructure upgrades.
Balancing Development, Access, and Open Space
Freedom Square’s scale gives the project room to accommodate a wide range of uses, but it also requires a coordinated approach to connectivity and the integration of natural open spaces. RGS’s planning work helped establish relationships between residential neighborhoods, commercial areas, recreation spaces, and future community amenities that capitalize on views to wetlands and stream corridors.
Through early site planning, infrastructure coordination and municipal presentation support, RGS helped position Freedom Square as a flexible, long-term development that can evolve as market needs and community needs continue to take shape.
Planning for Long-Term Community Value
At full buildout, Freedom Square is planned as an inter-connected community where residents can live, work, shop, and access recreation and senior care within a single destination.
For RGS, Freedom Square reflects the value of early planning and collaboration with various agencies to look beyond individual parcels to the infrastructure, circulation, open-space, and preservation of ecological systems that help a community endure.
