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New plan for prime real estate – philanthropist Dodo Hamilton’s property & grounds in Wayne

March 10, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

When Campbell’s Soup heiress Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton died in 2017, the fate of her expansive Strafford estate was anyone’s guess.

Would her elegant home, outbuildings, greenhouses and specimen plantings go to her heirs?
Or would they become a nature preserve? A suburban offshoot of the PA Horticultural Society? A small school, perhaps?

One thing was certain: the land – more than eight acres in a prized spot behind Wayne’s Eagle Village Shops – was valuable.

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Uneasy over Barnes & Noble’s surprise return to Bryn Mawr, Main Line bookstore owners unite, plan ‘give back’ week to local causes

March 3, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The Main Line’s independent bookstores have surmounted a sea of challenges: Amazon, e-books, the pandemic.

But then, out of nowhere, a tidal wave: Barnes & Noble crashed ashore in Bryn Mawr on Feb. 12,  returning to the very same building it had left 18 years ago.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: barnes & noble, bookstores, Bryn Mawr, Character Development Books & Toys, Children's Book World, independent bookstores, indie main line, main line bookstores, Main Point Books, Narberth Bookshop

A new park in Chesterbrook? Tredyffrin makes moves to seize former swim-and-racquet club by eminent domain

February 24, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Tredyffrin Township is taking steps towards an historic move: using eminent domain to take land in Chesterbrook. We say “historic” because the last time Tredyffrin seized land was 60 years ago – for a sewer line, according to the township’s solicitor.

This time, Tredyffrin proposes to take over the old Picket Post Swim & Tennis Club on Chase Road, a 4.8-acre eyesore, and turn it into a public park.

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Now rolling in Radnor: Mama-San helps fill the Azie void

February 12, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Folks who frequented Azie on Main were bereft when the popular Villanova Asian spot closed last summer. Where would they get their Drunken Noodles and tasty Azie rolls?

Six months later, there’s an answer: Mama-San – and it’s right down the street.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: fast-casual, mama-san, pearl somboonsong, Radnor, sushi, win hospitality

Blockbuster news: ‘Passionate local investors’ unite to save historic Anthony Wayne Theater

February 3, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Twenty years after the nonprofit Bryn Mawr Film Institute rallied the community to revive an aging movie palace, a similar group has emerged to restore Wayne’s once-shining centerpiece, the historic Anthony Wayne Theater.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: anthony wayne theater, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, community nonprofit, historic preservation, historic theaters, radnor historical society, Wayne

Two fun DIY shops – Plant4Good and Corks & Candles – debut on Ardmore’s booming Cricket Ave. while a new restaurant is en route.

January 27, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Already bustling Cricket Ave. in downtown Ardmore is poised to get even busier.

We’ve already told you about the posh new day spa, Cure de Repos in Cricket Flats, the newish luxury apartment/retail complex just down the road from eight-story One Ardmore.

Well, right next door to the spa, an equally stylish outpost of Corks & Candles is off to a promising start.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, candle-making, Cork & Candles, Cricket Avenue, Cricket Flats, Destination ARdmore, downtown Ardmore, gardening, gardening workshops, houseplants, new restaurant, new retail, One Ardmore, plant shop, Plant4Good

Historic Ithan market restored as Vanner House, a dapper destination for all things equestrian

January 21, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

The Main Line is leaning hard into its horsey heritage.

Radnor Hotel’s public spaces are being rebranded as Triple Crown Restaurant, Events and Garden.

The old McKenzie Brew House in Malvern is now the equestrian-themed Jockey Tavern.

And a neglected circa-1808 Radnor store has been elegantly resurrected as Vanner House, happy hunting grounds for all things horsey.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: equestrian boutique, equestrian style, hisoric restoration, historic preservation, historic renovation, Ithan market, Ithan post office, Main Line shopping, new store, vanner house

Skip the schlep! CURE de Repos, a luxury beauty & wellness oasis, arrives in Ardmore

January 13, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

For the crème de la crème in beauty and wellness, you could head to a destination spa, a swanky resort or a high-end day spa in Center City.

Or you could skip the schlep and visit the new CURE de Repos in Ardmore.

Locally owned and operated, CURE is 2800 sq. ft. of luxurious indulgence in Cricket Flats, the new mixed-use complex on Cricket Ave.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Beauty, Cricket Flats, day spa, European day spa, facials, massage, spa, wellness

Making Malvern a Hallmark town; Aiding Wynnewood’s Gaudios; Easttown in a pickle; At the bar At the Table in Wayne; Ugly rubble in Berwyn; Ho Ho Ho for the Hoeys; DFB is a BFD; Hot headlines & more

December 19, 2024 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Step aside, guys.

Powered mostly by women, Malvern is poised for a mini-renaissance.

King Street has new merchants, the borough’s biggest boosters have joined forces, and everyone – shoppers and shopkeepers – seems bullish about Malvern’s singular, small-town charms.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrew Gaudio, At the Table, Bernadette Gaudio, berwyn demolition, berwyn roof collapse, Berwyn Square, dfb, dom pecors, DP Partners, Easttown, Gaudio, GoFundme, home invasion, Main Line crime, patrick hoey, pickleball, pickleball noise, UMLY, Upper Main Line YMCA, Wayne restaurants

SAVVY Main Line, The Podcast: WHOA Baby! Egg Freezing, IVF & America’s first “test tube baby”

December 9, 2024 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

In this episode, Caroline gets super personal with three guests:

*Her daughter, Kara O’Halloran, who shares her decision to freeze her eggs at age 32. Why did she do it and what was it like?

*Local mom Sarah Shafer who spent seven years and millions of dollars to have her two daughters through IVF in her later 30s and early 40s. Her journey inspired her to form a nonprofit helps couples pay for IVF and a create a lux skincare line based on breast milk.

*America’s first “test tube” baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, explains her life under the microscope of public opinion and her efforts to keep IVF legal. She also tells us about how to support her IVF advocacy work.

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