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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.
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.
