it's what you want to know
Alas, a light at the end of a long, tortured tunnel in Berwyn.
That big, fat patch of U-G-L-Y in the heart of the village is going bye-bye — and a three-story, mixed-use complex with more than 100 apartments and ground-floor retail will soon rise from the cyclone-fenced rubble.
Like it or lump it, it’s been a long time coming.
If you could conjure, a la Dr. Frankenstein, the ideal person to resurrect a landmark local theater left for dead, you’d likely land on someone just like Jennifer Carlson.
A standout leader at Phoenixville’s Colonial Theatre, Carlson arrives at the Anthony Wayne uniquely equipped for a challenge she calls “Herculean”: raising millions of dollars, overseeing the overhaul of a derelict movie house while honoring its history, and building a loyal audience with the right mix of movies, programs and performances.
In rocky times, here’s a story to make you smile — and feel proud to call the Main Line home.
This Saturday, a baseball team from Berwyn will take the field at the storied home of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa.
The players won’t be elite “travel team” athletes gunning for a title. In fact, they won’t even keep score; everyone goes home a winner.
Philly has more than a dozen rooftop bars.
The Main Line (Conshy doesn’t count) has three: the super-casual Great American Pub in Wayne, a smallish terrace at Lark in Bala Cynwyd, and — drumroll — Pomelo Rooftop Terrace in Radnor.
Yes, it’s earned the fanfare.
In 2022, The Haverford School called it a “generational opportunity.” Now it’s moving on.
When the boys’ school bought the former Presbyterian Children’s Village/Gemma Services property on Roberts Road in Bryn Mawr, the vision was expansion — playing fields, maybe new academic buildings, a satellite campus less than three miles from its landlocked Lancaster Avenue home.
The quiet campaign to reopen the Anthony Wayne Theater got a lot louder today, as the landmark’s nonprofit board named its first-ever executive director.
Jennifer Carlson was hired away from the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, where she held the same position for the last four years. She’ll run the show in Wayne, overseeing everything from fundraising and renovations to community partnerships and programming.
Six months after Di Bruno Bros. went dark, the 8,000-square-foot building in Strafford has a taker.
The Malvern Prep buddies behind the nearby Goat’s Beard plan to turn the former Italian market into a higher-end Mexican restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner.
A Chester County judge has handed Rock Hill Farm owner and developer Brian O’Neill a significant legal victory, overturning Willistown Township’s denial of his preliminary subdivision plan and dealing a major blow to the years-long grassroots effort to stop development of the storied property.
Sweet news, Western Main Line. The Bryn Mawr bakery so popular it rents a U-Haul to distribute 2,500 Thanksgiving pies each year is heading your way.
The Bakery House has leased the former Sushi Nami building next to the Paoli Nudy’s and expects to open Sept. 28.
Nearly two years after Lower Merion School District agreed to sell the once-embattled Oakwell estate, the deal is finally done.
Conservation nonprofit Natural Lands announced today that it has officially acquired the 10-acre Villanova property, reuniting Oakwell with neighboring Stoneleigh after more than a century apart. The purchase expands the treasured public garden from 42 acres to more than 52.
