Is Aether in KOP the future of medicine? BIG plans for downtown Wayne; No EIN in Tredyffrin; Comings, Goings, This & That & more

The future of medicine just might lie in 2,000 sparkling square feet in King of Prussia.

Not kidding.

It’s the new home of Aether Medicine, the cutting-edge practice of Dr. Asare Christian, one of the most caring, credentialed physicians around.

Aether offers personalized therapies for elite athletes, weekend warriors, foggy brains, the immunocompromised, and otherwise neglected, aching and aging bodies.

Dr. Christian knows his stuff. He’s double board-certified in Anti-aging and Longevity Medicine and in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and he holds a master’s in public health from Harvard and a certificate in AI in Medicine from MIT. He’s become a nationally sought-after speaker on peak performance and longevity. His belief: the future of wellness is personalized, preventive and cellular.

To that end, Aether offers pinpoint testing and next-generation therapies, including:

• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (the first PA provider outside a hospital setting) for chronic inflammation, long COVID and autoimmune conditions
• Peptides for recovery, injury repair, sleep and gut healing
• PRP, exosomes and stem cells for injured joints, tendons and ligaments
• Ozone therapy and major autohemotherapy (MAH) for immune support and joint pain
• Hormone replacement therapy (pellet and non-pellet)
• Targeted pharmaceutical-grade supplements, IVs and medications, including GLP-1s for weight loss and blood sugar

And much more.

Aether’s treatments aren’t a shot in the dark. Patients are thoroughly tested first.

“Before we treat, we listen. Before we prescribe, we test,” says Dr. Christian. “Patients often arrive with tests that read ‘normal,’ but they feel anything but.”

Now I’ll get a little personal.

Ahead of his particpation on an expert panel at a longeivity luncheon hosted by Surrey Services and moderated by me, Dr. Christian offered me a deep dive into my own longevity. He ordered advanced blood panels, biological age testing to measure how fast my body is actually aging, a PNOE test of my VO2 max and metabolism, and more.

The process taught me a ton about my own body. Not all the news was good, but all of it is now being addressed with simple lifestyle changes and targeted supplements.

Then, last winter, I said yes to something even more pioneering: a full-body oil change.

With cars, we know the drill. Every few thousand miles,we drain the old oil, add fresh and get back on the road. Therapeutic Plasma Exchange works similarly. My blood plasma, which had been circulating and accumulating inflammatory markers for 60 years, was removed and replaced with an albumin solution. My body then went to work making fresh plasma of its own.

At Aether’s invitation, I became one of the first people in Pennsylvania to receive TPE outside a hospital. The two-hour procedure was simple and painless, and I had no side effects.

Longevity enthusiasts and biohackers have been buzzing about TPE. Medically, it’s an established treatment for a number of autoimmune and neurological conditions, and it has shown promise for long COVID.

Have I become a vampire immortal? Heck no. But follow-up texts showed the toxins in my blood had decreased significantly. And all that fresh blood coursing through me has me brimming with energy and  feeling far younger than my years.

Aether Medicine, 660 American Ave., King of Prussia, 484-806-1101, In-person and telehealth consultations available. 

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Picture this ‘vision’ for downtown Wayne: A town commons, plus parking (!), traffic and retail fixes

Radnor Township’s draft “Vision for Wayne” just came out – and, guess what, supervisors aren’t messing around.

One of the plan’s centerpiece proposals has already been approved: a new public park for gatherings and events on North Wayne Avenue, next to Gingy’s Boutique.

The “parklet” will eat 24 prime parking spaces – a loss that had a dozen local business owners pleading “Not so fast” at the Sept. 14 Radnor Board of Commissioners meeting.

Commissioners unanimously approved the parklet resolution anyway, though they tapped the brakes with amendments. Construction now won’t start until next year, and new signs will direct drivers to other lots.

The price tag is still TBD. An early estimate was $155,000, with public works employees doing most of the initial work. The draft plan, however, says a “premier public park” could cost $1.8 million to $3.5 million. We shall see.

Worried about parking? (Um, who isn’t?)

The study concludes a garage isn’t warranted. It counted 2,400 downtown spaces, only about two-thirds of them full at peak hours.

Instead, the plan calls for higher rates and enforcement until 8 p.m. at the most desirable spaces (ouch!), new meter technology, better signage and shared use of private lots.

The plan also calls for a redesign of North Wayne Avenue. Curbs would be leveled allowing the street to close more easily for events. A key stretch of North Wayne Ave. would have a wider sidewalks and “bike facilities” would be added. (When is the last time you saw a cyclist on North Wayne Ave.?)

Other key recommendations:

• Traffic calming on Lancaster Avenue, including a study of a possible lane-reducing “road diet”
• Connecting the Radnor Trail to downtown and adding bike racks
• Supporting the reopening of the Anthony Wayne Theater with shared parking, designated rideshare zones and discounted tickets for transit riders
• Encouraging modest development along West Avenue and north of the train tracks
• Incentives for independent shops, including short-term, low-cost options for micro-businesses and pop-ups
• A designated loading zone, so delivery trucks stop blocking the center of North Wayne Ave.

The township’s hired master planners weighed input from hundreds of people and the track records of similar downtowns.

We’re only giving you a summary. We didn’t even touch on the recommended zoning changes. Read the full draft plan here. Email comments to VisionForWayneComments@Radnor.org.

Better hurry: the comment window closes Monday, Oct. 5.

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Squeezed at both ends: What Waverly Heights and Friends School Haverford say about the Main Line

Over the summer, we told you about Waverly Heights’ plan to open a second senior living campus in Bryn Mawr, on 43 acres on Roberts Road that it’s buying from The Haverford School.

A few miles away, Friends School Haverford (FSH), an elementary school since 1885, has just become an early childhood center for infants through age 5.

Both institutions are retooling to meet demand. Waverly, the Gladwyne “life-plan community,” has more than 700 people on its waitlist, and daycares and preschools have long waitlists, too. Parents are showing up, checks in hand, months or even years ahead. Some older residents are putting down deposits decades in advance.

The Main Line isn’t short on space, exactly. It’s short on space at the two stages of life when you need someone else to help take care of you.

Friends School Haverford says it made the move because more families are choosing public elementary schools. After years of paying for daycare and preschool, many parents skip private tuition for the elementary years. Some plan to switch to private school for middle or high school. Others never do.

The enrollment numbers back up the shift. While FSH’s elementary enrollment was shrinking, its toddler program had waitlists.

It’s a small but telling data point in a bigger story. The Main Line seems built for the able-bodied middle of life, and it’s increasingly squeezed at both ends.

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All talk, no second: Tredyffrin’s EIT motion dies on the spot

In parliamentary procedure, a motion needs just one friend. At the Sept. 21 meeting of the Tredyffrin Board of Supervisors, the proposed Earned Income Tax couldn’t find one.

Supervisor K.S. Bhaskar laid out his case for the EIT at length, walking colleagues and a packed room through his reasoning. When Bhaskar finally made the motion, Board Chair David Miller asked for a second.

None came.

The motion died on the spot, with no vote and no debate. That was all the scores of residents who had turned out to oppose the tax needed to hear. They headed for the exits, and the supervisors worked through the rest of the agenda before a noticeably thinner crowd.

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Wayne’s Queen of Gifts aims to reclaim her crown

Petite powerhouse Donna Martella is bringing bellaDONNA Gifts back to Lancaster Ave. On any given day, you’ll find her working quierly away, behind the papered-over windows of the old Befitting Bicycles shop.

“Downtown Wayne has been my home since 1998, longer than I’ve been in my house,” says Martella, who will keep selling her wares at the Lancaster County Farmers Market in Strafford. “But I really missed the community of Wayne and having my own store.”

The new bellaDONNA will be about the size of the old one, but she’s leveling up the décor: white fixtures and gold chandeliers. Look for a pick-your-own “gift basket bar,” her embroidery and customization machines, and more.

This isn’t Martella’s first comeback.

In 2016 she closed her first Lancaster Ave. gift shop, Beethoven’s Wraps, and rebranded as bellaDONNA Gifts in a new space up the street. When a fire closed bellaDONNA for a year in April 2024, she gave most of the space to her son’s furniture consignment shop, Main Line Revival. She kept a small corner for her most popular lines and focused on her farmers market stall.

Now she’s striking out on her own once again. The new bellaDONNA should open in about two weeks, Martella rells us.

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Look out, Please Touch: Sprout City is up and running in Delco

A first-of-its-kind spot for imaginative play and caretaker enrichment just opened in Media.

For the kiddos (ages 0 to 6), there’s immersive role-playing in Sprout City’s custom-designed market, newsroom, veterinary hospital and salon.

For their moms or caretakers, fitness and enrichment classes in an open play floor right near the kiddos. Adult lasses include yoga, barre, HITT, Dance, STEM, ASL, Spanish and Caretaker and Me.

Need to get some work done? Try the co-working room where you can monitor your child’s play on a closed-circuit TV.

Sprout City founder Emily Higgins is a local mom who spent years watching families piece together playdates, workouts and enrichment classes – driving hither and yon. What if it all that could happen under one happy roof? she wondered.

From that seed, Sprout City took root.

Sprout City, 77 W Baltimore Pike, Suite 400, Media. Follow @sproutcityplay on Instagram.

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This and That

Dim sum is heading west. Longtime Wynnewood favorite Sangkee Asian Bistro is expanding into the former R&G’s Ping Pong space near Panera in Tredyffrin’s Gateway Shopping Center. For decades, fans have raved about Sangkee’s dim sum, dumplings, noodles, roast meats and classic Peking duck. The restaurant got its start in Chinatown in the early 1980s. No opening date yet, but it should be soon.

Radnor’s court search is back to square one. After public pushback persuaded commissioners to drop plans to move the district court from Newtown Square to South Wayne Ave., the township has no Plan B. At a Sept. 22 town hall, officials said they hadn’t found another suitable site. Some had floated the old Rite Aid on Lancaster Ave., but a township source tells SAVVY the price was far too high. Officials say they’re open to buying, leasing or retrofitting a space.

Rock Hill Farm: Deal dead, or just going dark? After an 11th-hour ultimatum, the Rock Hill Farm settlement may have vanished. More likely, it’s being hashed out behind the scenes. Either way, developer Brian O’Neill’s controversial plan to develop parts of his sprawling Willistown property was conspicuously absent from the posted agenda for this week’s supervisors meeting. The deal was set for a vote Sept. 14 but cratered after the township solicitor questioned whether Rock Hill Farm Acquisitions could bind the property’s current mortgage holders. New settlement language reached supervisors just two hours before the vote. The board tabled it anyway, right after O’Neill’s attorney warned that a settlement “will no longer be an option” if it wasn’t approved that night. An idle threat? A negotiating tactic? We wouldn’t be surprised.

The weather is looking lovely for the Oct. 1 opening of a second Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream in Havertown.  Not that brisk temps have ever kept folks from the 21-year-old Handel’s in Berwyn, where lines form year-round. Running the show in the new location will Buck Buchanan’s children, Casey Buchanan and Haley Masciantonio. Buck has a daughter and four grandsons in Havertown. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them pitching in one day. The new shop is at 13 W. Benedict Avenue in the former Al Pastor building.

Can Bala Avenue finally become Bala Cynwyd’s real Main Street? Public infrastructure and private redevelopment are paving the way. A $400,000 state grant will fund new sidewalks, buried wires and pedestrian safety upgrades on the 200 blocks of Bala and North Highland avenues. A separate $1 million award will pay for the rehab of historic 202 Bala Ave., with “hospitality-driven” commercial space downstairs and apartments above. Developers are also advancing a mixed-use project at 210–216 Bala Ave., with about 80 residences, ground-floor retail, on-site parking and a public plaza. From where we’re standing, the makeover is getting real.

Half a While Tea & Cake is semi-sweetening downtown Ardmore. The bakery and tea lounge serves lower-sugar baked goodies. It opened this summer in the former Kung Fu Tea space.

The Ardmore Farmers Market is starting to fill. Forlorn for months after mega-tenant Di Bruno Bros. skedaddled last winter, the market now has a new Aneu Kitchens in a  650-square-foot stall, and a soon-to-open Taco Heart, whose  menu will mirror its South Philly flagship: Austin-style tacos and migas, plus lunch tacos on tortillas made fresh on site. Calling all Tex-pats: opening date is October 5.

Stile by Per Lei lands in Wayne. The popular boutique opened its sixth location Aug. 26 in Gateway Shopping Center, in the former Custom Ink space near Trader Joe’s.

“Wayne has always felt like a natural fit for us,” says founder Candice Caprice. “So many of our customers in Newtown Square and Suburban Square are already part of this community. Opening at Gateway allows us to be more accessible to the women who have supported us for years while introducing Stile to even more women looking for an elevated, personal shopping experience.”

The boutique is known for an approachable aesthetic of natural textures and neutrals. Its other shops are in Ellis Preserve, Ardmore, Media, Glen Mills and Greenville, Del.

Meanwhile, in Malvern, Refinery on King debuted in July in the former Indie Shelf space, which closed a year ago. The boutique at 117 E. King St. carries women’s apparel, accessories, shoes and permanent jewelry, plus local art and curated lifestyle goods. It’s the second location of the popular Refinery in Phoenixville.

Matines has changed its ways. (Ils sont désolés.) After a failed experiment with table service, the popular French café, bakery and market near Whole Foods in Devon is back to counter service. Order at the counter, take a number and grab a seat. Larger parties, and anyone who’d rather be waited on, should make a reservation. Owner Arthur de Bruc tells us he’s  hired a new staff and hopes folks turned off by long waits will give Matines another try.

Two restaurant milestones in Wayne worth toasting:

At The Table is celebrating 10 years in Wayne with a three-course tasting menu, a curated rerun of chef-owners Alex and Tara Hardy’s greatest hits. “Ten years ago, we had a BYOB, a short menu and a lot of nerve,” says Alex. “What kept this place open – even through COVID – wasn’t a plan. It was a staff who kept showing up and guests who kept coming back. Ten years is their number as much as it is ours.” Order à la carte or choose the $100-per-person anniversary menu through Saturday, Oct. 3. Reserve on Resy or call 610-964-9700.

In Eagle Village Shops, A Taste of Britain marks 35 years with a $35 prix-fixe menu that raises money for the Wayne Senior Center. Owners Debbie and Edward Pierce are also rolling back Full Afternoon Tea Service to $35, Monday through Thursday in October. Details here.

A changing of the guard at Wolf Performing Arts Center (Wolf PAC) in Bryn Mawr. Co-Executive Director Betsy Wolf has been appointed Interim Executive Director, replacing Sarah Wittwer who stepped down to pursue a new professional opportunity. Wolf PAC provides a safe, inclusive place for young people to express their authentic selves through offering summer camps, private lessons, performances, classes and Artists in Residence.

Tredyffrin to Villanova landlords: Three strikes and your tenants are out? For years, neighbors on Mt. Pleasant and Henry avenues, a historically Black enclave, have complained about their Villanova student neighbors: loud parties, litter, vomit on cars, speeding rideshares and more. Would somebody, anybody, please do something? A month after Villanova’s new Cabrini campus put 900 more students within walking distance of Mt. Pleasant, Tredyffrin has. In a unanimous Sept. 21 vote, supervisors overhauled the township’s student-rental code, in effect deputizing landlords to police off-campus social life. The new ordinance requires annual rental licenses. It keeps the three-student-per-unit limit and requires out-of-area landlords to name a local property manager. The township can require eviction after a third violation, and fines can reach $1,000.

Baldwin plans its future while honoring its past. The independent girls’ school has hired blue-chip New York firm Peter Pennoyer Architects to create a comprehensive master plan for its 27-acre Bryn Mawr campus. Under review: green space, athletics, innovative learning spaces, parking and how to blend new construction with the school’s historic architecture. A central focus is the full restoration of Baldwin’s landmark Frank Furness-designed mansion.

Morning music, Bryn Mawr-style. The Main Line Committee for the Philadelphia Orchestra is staging three Morning Musicales this season:

• Oct. 15: Trio Azura, 2024 Grand Prize winner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition
• Nov. 12: Prize-winning violinist Joshua Brown and pianist Dina Vainshtein play Beethoven, Schumann, Ravel and Gershwin
• April 8: The Atlys Quartet and guest violist Hannah Rose Nicholas perform classical, contemporary, jazz and crossover selections

All concerts are at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $20, and proceeds benefit the Philadelphia Orchestra. Subscriptions and tickets here.

Soup’s on, Main Line, and no chopping required. Berwyn-based The Local Spoon will soon be stirring up small-batch, seasonal, healthy soups for preorder and local delivery. Produce will be locally grown whenever possible and “any meat or chicken will come from the same local farmers I’ve trusted to feed my own family for years,” founder Sophie Hayman Siravo tells SAVVY. Follow @the.local.spoon on Instagram for the launch date.

In the Main Line’s Pilates Era, is there room for one more reformer? Apparently so.
In Wayne, STRONG Pilates, a Pilates-strength hybrid at the new Wayne Station apartments, is training staff and offering big prizes for Instagram follows. Classes start any day now.
In Narberth, RTR Pilates opened a few weeks ago on Montgomery Ave. RTR offers contemporary reformer Pilates focused on strength, endurance and longevity.
Over on Rittenhouse Place in Ardmore, Calm & Strong opens later this fall. It won’t have reformers, but it covers a lot of bases: mat Pilates, yoga, sculpt and Zumba.

Denise Brown is coming to Wayne – remember her? During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Main Point Books and The Saturday Club welcome activist and author Denise Brown, sister of Nicole Brown Simpson, on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse, 117 W. Wayne Ave. Brown will discuss her new book, For My Sister Nicole: Love Shouldn’t Hurt. $40 tickets include the talk and the book. In the 32 years since her sister’s murder, Brown has become a sought-after speaker and advocate for domestic violence victims.

A new preschool for Gladwyne. Beth David synagogue plans to open Harmony Preschool in 2027. The school takes its inspiration from the Reggio Emilia approach, which sees children as capable, curious drivers of their own learning. Its play-based, nature-rich curriculum will serve Jewish children from 18 months to 5 years old.

The Main Line’s hottest school fight moves to federal court. In June, the Lower Merion School Board repealed a policy that let parents opt out of district laptops and iPads, and parents organized as “Pencils Over Pixels” to fight it. The board approved a new technology plan in August anyway, at a meeting held on Zoom to head off disruptions. Under the plan, K–2 students lose personal classroom devices, third and fourth graders share them, and older students keep theirs, with some limits. That wasn’t enough for the opt-out camp. Days later, seven families sued in federal court. They call the policy a “digital free-for-all” that violates parents’ constitutional rights, and they’re seeking a preliminary injunction to restore the opt-out or have the district pay for private school. On Sept. 14, the district fired back, accusing the families of fearmongering and questioning their legal standing. No ruling yet.

The Bakery House rises in Paoli. The Bryn Mawr favorite just opened a second location in Paoli Village Shoppes next to Nudy’s, and the upper Main Line has given it a warm welcome. Read our story on The Bakery House and newcomer Wild Yeast Bakehouse here.

Twenty-two years after its founding by four Radnor High School sophomores, the African Education Project (AEP) is still going strong.  A charming new picture book by Dorothy Potash, Jiya and the Wisdom of Elephants, is raising funds for the 501(c)(3) nonprofit. AEP supports a youth education and leadership center in Kafue, Zambia and connects students with health, nutrition, family stability and economic opportunity resources.

Everything bagel, full circle. Lower Merion brothers Brett and Kyle Frankel have brought Bart’s Bagels home. Their third shop is at 273 Montgomery Ave. in Bala Cynwyd, the former Bravo Pizza where they used to hang out, just minutes from where they grew up. It has a breakfast bar, seating and an open kitchen.

Peter’s Place is 25. Has it really been that long? Eleanor Morsbach founded the nonprofit for grieving families after her son Peter, a 10-year-old Beaumont Elementary student, died in a tragic accident. His legacy lives on in the countless young people who have found hope and healing through Peter’s Place’s free support services.

Free theater? That’s right. The Main Line’s own Dennis McAndrews reprises his role as JFK this weekend in a play he wrote himself and has performed in D.C., New York, Ireland and beyond. If JFK Survived Dallas: Presidential Reflections of an Elder Statesman plays this weekend, Friday, Oct. 2 and Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Forge Theater in Phoenixville, with an ensemble playing Jackie Kennedy, LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.: Curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, no registration needed. Donations to the theater are welcome.

A bittersweet goodbye to Lancaster Ave. After 11 years in the heart of Wayne, Christine Shirley Designs and Dina Previti & Co. Counseling have moved on. Owned by two besties, The Little Sewing Shop and Counseling Center That Could – and Did (!) – are now in Suite 709 at 987 Old Eagle School Rd. It’s still a Wayne address, but with easy on-site parking and more manageable overhead.

“Our lease wasn’t being renewed on realistic terms,” Christine Shirley owner Paige Sullivan wrote on Instagram. “We can no longer afford $52/sq. ft.! And honestly, the building is in need of some major love, while the space itself no longer makes sense for how much Christine Shirley has changed.”

Lights out for Harriton football. The high school suspended its varsity program three days after a 53-0 season-opening loss to Pottstown. A letter to parents cited player safety, low participation and the program’s shaky prognosis. Harriton hasn’t won a varsity conference game in 10 years. Players and parents have pushed to merge with Lower Merion’s program, and the school board approved a cooperative agreement last May, with many details still TBD. The merger needs PIAA approval.

Uptown Worthington is for sale. The 90-acre Malvern complex next to Vanguard is home to Wegmans, Target, Rothman Institute et. al. with room for more. It’s owned by Brian O’Neill and Lubert-Adler and could fetch as much as $200 million.

First Fridays at Sareen Hathaway Gallery. The Main Line’s newest purveyor of original art, custom framing and art consulting will host its first First Friday October 2, 4:30 to 7 p.m., at 601 Conestoga Rd., Villanova. Expect fine art, conversation, community –  and wine and cheese. All are welcome. No RSVP needed. More First Fridays follow Nov. 6 and Dec. 4.

The award-winning Clover Market pops up in downtown Bryn Mawr this Sunday, Oct, 4 from 10 to 4  (closest GPS: 7 N. Bryn Mawr Ave. which is the adjacent customer parking lot). Count on 90+ curated handmade and vintage vendors, food trucks, live music and more in the heart of the downtown business district. Full vendor lineup on their website,

And finally, a fond farewell to a Main Line original. Baker Industries founder Charlie Baker died two weeks ago at age 101.

A throwback and a visionary, Charlie grew up in the Philadelphia hotel his father managed, spent summers sailing in Ocean City, and winters playing squash for The Haverford School and West Point. He served in WWII and built a successful chemical company, but his greatest achievement would come later.

His youngest child, Justin, was born with an intellectual disability and severe epilepsy and couldn’t hold a job. Charlie and his wife, Weezie, searched in vain for a suitable workplace. So they built one. They sold the chemical company but kept its furniture polish line, and they set up shop in their Strafford garage. Justin and a college student mixed the polish, capped it and sold it.

That was the humble, hopeful start of Baker Industries 46 years ago. The nonprofit has since given real jobs and real paychecks to 12,000 people in Malvern and Kensington. Some, like Justin, have disabilities. Others are returning from incarceration or recovering from addiction or homelessness. Charlie never took a paycheck, and he always treated employees as employees, with no coddling and no condescension. He served on the board until the end, one year after losing his beloved Weezie.

No, the Main Line won’t see the likes of Charlie Baker again anytime soon. Rest in peace, fine man.

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SAVVY PICK***

Ahoy, midlife women: This Avenue was built for you.

Most medspas aren’t designed with you in mind. Avenue Beauty Science (ABS) in Wayne is.

The boutiquem one-stop shop offers bioidentical hormones, cutting-edge skincare, regenerative anti-aging treatments, natural (never overdone!) Botox and fillers, GLP-1 weight management, supplement guidance and more. You get holistic wellness and beauty in one place instead of schlepping to appointments up and down the Pike.

And boutique means small. ABS is led by a registered nurse and a physician assistant, with medical direction from an MD. There’s no crowded waiting room.

Avenue Beauty Science, 322 E. Lancaster Ave., Suite 203, Wayne, 610) 772-8670. Follow @avenuebeautyscience on Instagram and Facebook. Jill Wharton’s podcast, prettyWise, is available on Spotify and YouTube.

****SAVVY Picks are shoutouts & promos on behalf of our sponsors. To learn more about becoming a SAVVY Pick, email Caroline@savvyml.com.

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RECENT SAVVY NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED (Click a headline to read)

• Villanova’s next big win? Sainthood for one of its own, Bill Atkinson, O.S.A.

• Rock Hill Farm deal falls apart hours before the vote *

• Park vs. parking: Radnor commissioners set to vote on North Wayne Ave.*

• Stunning new Sareen Hathaway Gallery brings Merritt’s legacy – and a fresh vision – to Radnor*

• Downtown Berwyn’s blight is finally on its way out

• A SAVVY exclusive: Anthony Wayne Theater’s new director on her “Herculean” plan to bring it back

• Berwyn-Paoli’s Angels are about to get the rock-star treatment

• High times: Pomelo Rooftop Terrace brings skyline views and city-style socializing to Radnor

• Waverly Heights agrees to buy 43 acres from The Haverford School, plans second life-care campus in Bryn Mawr*

• “Higher-end Mexican restaurant” planned for former Di Bruno Bros. in Wayne

*Story has been updated earlier in this edition. 

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