A King of Prussia electrical supply company has bought a local church's investment property, helping the church finance a new home.

Colonial Electric Supply has purchased 221 Pitney Road from Crossway Church for $450,000, courthouse documents show.

When the 13,800-square-foot location opens in October, it will have about 10 employees, said Colonial spokeswoman Kimberly Paul.

It will be Colonial's 21st "counter location," joining sites in southeast and southcentral Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York.

For Colonial, its arrival here represents a logical extension of its network, which includes locations in Reading and Myerstown, Paul said.

The building, on the eastern edge of the city, had been donated this spring to Crossway Church by Central Penn Property Services of Akron.

Its most recent occupant was Master Spa, which left in spring 2010, when the building was owned by Central Penn.

Handling the deal between Crossway and Colonial were Dan Berger of NAI Commercial Partners and Denise Cass of High Associates Ltd.

The Pitney Road transaction is part of Crossway's effort to fund construction of a new church.

The structure is under construction on Barbara Street in Millersville, said Steve Heitland, one of Crossway's five pastors.

Crossway has been meeting at Penn Manor High School in Millersville since 2005.

Before that, it met at Lancaster Mennonite School's New Danville campus for 14 years, he said.

Crossway never met at the Pitney Road building, Heitland noted.

Designed by TONO Architects, the church's new building — a 38,000-square-foot structure costing $7.3 million — will seat about 825 people.

A summer 2012 completion is expected, a month or two after the church's 30th anniversary in May.

"We had hoped to be in our building by then, but we'll probably miss it by a month or two. Not a big deal — we're just happy to finally be getting a building," Heitland said.

"We think it will be a beautiful building and will fit in well with the beauty of our property."

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