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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.
Berwyn’s renaissance just got a little sweeter.
Once known mostly for its no-frills tavern and landmark ice cream shop, Berwyn Village is, block by block, becoming reborn.
First came the Sunday farmers market. Then the increasingly elaborate holiday lights. Then the hand-painted murals, Trader Joe’s and a stream of small businesses betting on Berwyn’s future.
Now comes Parlor Doughnuts.
Off the well-trod paths of Lancaster Avenue and downtown Wayne, tucked inside a handsome new hotel on King of Prussia Road, Merrick’s Tavern would be easy to miss.
That would be a shame.
Remember the Gladwyne Village overhaul we told you about in January? Well, that makeover has already received its own makeover. It’s no longer Gladwyne Square, no longer quite so polished, and no longer – as some had claimed – trying to be Nantucket.
After months of community feedback, the redevelopment team is floating a revised plan that keeps more of the village’s “quirk,” shifts tenants around, reduces retail square footage, rejiggers a new village green and parking lot.
After Brandywine Conservancy announced it would step away from operating the Radnor Hunt Races after 46 years, more than a few racegoers feared last Saturday’s 95th running might also be the last.
Who would take on such a sprawling, complicated event? And could one of the Main Line’s most cherished spring traditions survive the handoff?
Some quietly wondered whether the Races might go the way of the Academy Ball or the Vassar Show House — once beloved institutions faded into memory.
Well, fear not.
ANEU Kitchens’ founder Meridith Coyle isn’t just opening a new café Wayne. She’s swinging bigger – much bigger.
The veteran caterer and prepared foods entrepreneur is converting 20,000 square feet at Eagle Yards Corporate Center into a sprawling food-and-wellness destination complete with café, provisions market, production kitchen and gathering space designed to nourish both body and community.
“Inside the Game” turned into inside everything: the Phillies’ front office, the clubhouse – and at moments, John Middleton’s heart.
The Phillies’ Managing Partner and CEO, who rarely agrees to extended public interviews, offered a strikingly candid and sometimes emotional look at the business – and burden – of running one of baseball’s most scrutinized franchises Monday night at Villanova University.
For years, Heather King’s Ardmore and Haverford flower shops helped the Main Line mark life’s biggest moments — weddings, birthdays, babies and funerals.
But behind Argyle’s flowers and French buckets, another kind of enterprise – equally lovely – was quietly taking place. Young people in early recovery from addiction kept finding their way to Heather.
