Neighbors of the Stehli Silk Mill in Manheim Township must feel like Charlie Brown, considering whether to kick a football marked “silk mill redevelopment” held by Lucy.
For more than a generation, the former Stehli Silk Mill has been an empty, increasingly blighted landmark in Manheim Township.
That might change soon, but a recent look inside the buildings of the former mill shows just how much must be done to bring life back to the site.
This is the interior of the building that formerly housed Stehli Silk Mill at 701 Martha Avenue in Manheim Township Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. BLAINE SHAHAN | Staff Photographer
Over the past four decades, multipaned windows that once provided natural light for silk weavers â and later RCA workers making television picture tubes â became progressively broken as the buildings sat largely vacant.