South Heidelberg's Ethos warehouses: what the plans show
Two Ethos industrial buildings, one over 1 million square feet, are planned off Krick Lane in South Heidelberg. What the plans show and where they stand.
By The Berks Beat staff · Published July 29, 2026 · Updated July 29, 2026 · South Heidelberg Township
Two large industrial buildings are planned along Krick Lane in South Heidelberg Township, and the bigger of the two, a warehouse of more than a million square feet, reached the final-approval stage in front of the township supervisors on July 28. Together the two projects, named Ethos West and Ethos East, would put roughly 1.35 million square feet of warehouse space on farmland near the Route 422 corridor west of Reading.
A land development plan is the detailed site plan a builder must get a township to approve before construction can start. It covers the building footprint, driveways, stormwater basins, parking, and utilities. Approval is mostly a check that the plan meets the township’s existing zoning and land development rules, not a fresh vote on whether the buildings are a good idea.
What is on the plans
County planning files describe two separate but related developments, both drawn by McCarthy Engineering & Associates and both listed as a single industrial building:
- Ethos West sits on the west side of Krick Lane, about 350 feet south of Corporate Boulevard. The plan is one industrial building of 1,031,444 square feet on roughly 79 acres. The applicant is Ethos Krick Lane Associates, LLC.
- Ethos East sits on the east side of Krick Lane, about 650 feet south of Corporate Boulevard, on land owned by Prime Wellness of PA LLC. The plan is one industrial building of 319,920 square feet on about 25 acres. The applicant is Ethos East Side Krick Lane Associates, LLC.
Both are tied to Ethos Development Group. The plans list the buildings as industrial space and do not name a company that would move in.
These are not the only warehouse plans in this part of the county. A separate developer, C&B Development, has a 409,000-square-foot warehouse proposed on a different parcel east of Krick Lane, and it is a distinct project from the two Ethos plans.
Where the plans stand
County reports from late 2025 listed both Ethos plans as preliminary, the first stage of review. By this summer, Ethos West had moved to final approval. The supervisors’ July 28 agenda listed that approval as an action item, packaged with a decision and order documenting the plan, an improvements agreement and a stormwater agreement, a deed of dedication, and Resolution 14-2026 accepting the deed.
South Heidelberg does not record or livestream its meetings, and the township had not posted minutes confirming how the board voted when this article published. We will update it once the official record is available. Ethos East remained at the preliminary stage in the last county report we reviewed.
What it could mean for the township
The tax base is the clearest impact. The township’s manager, Sean McKee, told 69 News in September 2025 that the two Ethos parcels together would make up more than 20 percent of the township’s revenue and about 8 percent of the revenue for the Conrad Weiser Area School District, which covers South Heidelberg. Berks Beat has not independently verified those figures against township or school budgets, and they are the manager’s estimate as reported by 69 News.
Traffic is the concern residents raised. More than 100 people turned out to a community meeting on the plans in the fall of 2025, where the developer’s traffic engineers presented. One resident, Judy Iwaschenko, told 69 News she worried about the project’s entrances, including one across from her home. Krick Lane is the spine of this development area, and the township separately won an $870,000 state Multimodal grant in 2023 to extend Krick Lane to Wernersville Road and add a four-way traffic signal with turn lanes at Krick Lane and Lincoln Drive. That grant announcement did not tie the road work to the Ethos plans.
How to follow it
South Heidelberg’s Board of Supervisors meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., with a workshop on the third Tuesday at 9 a.m., at 555A Mountain Home Road, Sinking Spring. Agendas and minutes are posted in the township’s Agenda Center, and the office can be reached at 610-678-9652. Land development decisions are made by the supervisors after review by the township planning commission, so both bodies’ agendas are worth watching.
Berks townships are fielding a wave of large warehouse and data-center proposals. For how another Berks township is handling truck-terminal and warehouse plans, see our report on what’s planned at W. Leesport and Faller Lane in Bern Township. For a look at the county’s largest single development, see Spring Township’s $350 million Broadcast District. For who decides land use at the township versus the county level, see how Berks County government works.