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Brandywine Realty Trust is opening a $60 million hotel in Radnor
A $60 million, 121-room Marriott hotel catering to the suburban tenants of Brandywine Realty Trust is opening in Radnor this spring, writes Jake Blumgart and Michael Klein for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “We were constantly hearing from our tenant base that as they were bringing people in from out of town, there was no real high-end,…
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Cruisers Weigh In on New Cruise Line Coming to Tinicum Port
Norwegian Cruise Line’s arrival in April at the newly built PhilaPort Cruise Terminal in Tinicum Township is generating conversations among cruisers, writes Nusreta Beranac for Cruise Critic. Norwegian Jewel and Norwegian Pearl will operate seven-to-nine-day itineraries departing from the Terminal. Destinations include Bermuda’s Royal Naval Dockyard and Charleston, South Carolina. About 41 calls per year…
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Sheetz Scoping Out Wawa’s Home Turf with a Chadds Ford Store Proposal
Sheetz is thinking of opening a 24/7 convenience store with gas pumps in the Painters Crossing Shopping Center at 1201 Wilmington Pike, Chadds Ford, writes Rich Schwartzman for Chadds Ford Live. That’s a mere 17-minute drive, or 8.9 miles, from Wawa’s headquarters at 260 W. Baltimore Pike in Chester Heights. There is some confusion over…
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Swarthmore College Plan for Athletic Complex Meets Resistance
Swarthmore College’s plans for a new athletic complex off College Avenue and North Chester Road are not going over well with some residents, writes Alexandra Paskhavier for the Daily Times. The college wants a zoning change for Cunningham Fields to install 12 acres of synthetic turf, stadium lighting on 70-foot poles, and sound amplification. The…
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Students Partner Up to Sustain Food Pantry at Drexel Neumann Academy
Drexel Neumann Academy students in Chester can take advantage of a food pantry built at the school this past summer by the national nonprofit Kids Against Hunger United, reports Nick Iadonisi for 6abc. The pantry serves the students and their families. It’s sustained throughout the school year by the “Community Kindness Club,” made up of…
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Eli Lilly to Build $3.5B Weight-Loss Drug Plant in Upper Macungie
Eli Lilly plans to build a $3.5 billion pharmaceutical plant in Upper Macungie Township, just north of Montgomery County, for its next-generation weight-loss medicines, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The selection of the Lehigh Valley for one of Eli Lilly’s four new U.S. factories represents a significant win for Pennsylvania as it competes…
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Jason Kelce Featured in Local Super Bowl Ad for Garage Beer
Jason Kelce is starring in a local Garage Beer Super Bowl ad that will be broadcast Sunday for the Philadelphia market, writes Ariel Simpson for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The retired Eagles center and Haverford resident appears in the ad with former Eagles player Beau Allen and Doug the miniature horse. Kelce and his brother, Travis,…
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Delaware County Housing Market Is Frozen at the Moment
Delaware County’s housing market matches the weather outside. It’s frozen, writes Michaelle Bond for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Potential home sellers and buyers didn’t interact much last month. Slow sales were reported in the 50 most populous metropolitan areas, including Delaware County and Philadelphia, according to a Redfin analysis. Sales were down about 4 percent in…
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BUCKSCO Careers: Freedom Village at Brandywine
Find your Freedom Village career at Freedom Village at Brandywine, a Life Plan Community in West Brandywine, that has served seniors for more than 25 years. Freedom Village provides active senior living with resort-inspired services, amenities, social activities, chef-prepared cuisine, and on-site care that includes personal care, skilled nursing, memory care, and rehabilitation services. Be…
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Delaware County Raises Hotel Tax to 5 Percent as Visitors Arrive
Delaware County Council unanimously approved an increase this week for the hotel occupancy tax to 5 percent, the maximum amount allowed by the state. The move was made in anticipation of all the visitors that will be flooding the county this year, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. Delaware County now collects about…
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Real-Life Simulation Part of Multi-Million Dollar Nursing Program Upgrade
A new custom-built space at the Marple Education Center in Broomall gives nursing students opportunities to experience real-life situations, writes Justin Udo for KWY Newsradio. The multi-million-dollar upgrade from the Delaware County Intermediate Unit adds four new classrooms and two simulation labs. “It’s great for the students to be able to practice on a non-human…
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PennDOT Plans to Ease Blue Route Congestion, but It Will Take Awhile
The Blue Route is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year as a fully operational link between I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Also known as I-476, it has become so popular that its original mission to reduce congestion on local roads has been turned on its head. These days, navigation apps will reroute drivers onto less…
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There’s a County in New York That Dares to Call Itself Delco
Delco always prided itself on its unique culture and general weirdness. Now Delaware County, New York, is promoting its own Delco culture, with a website and merchandise, writes Stephanie Farr for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The website promotes DELCO as a “ lifestyle brand celebrating rural culture, design & authentic content in Upstate NY.” It sells…
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Riddle Roundtable Highlights Crozer Impact on Patients, Hospitals
Overcrowding at emergency rooms and long waits to see doctors continue to plague Delaware County following the closure of the Crozer Health system. State legislators and Main Line Health executives met last week, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times. Chronic patients no longer have easy follow-up visits or easy medication refills, said Phil…
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Limerick Land Swap Would Bring State Game Land to Edgmont
A developer’s proposal to the Pennsylvania Game Commission could give Delaware County its first swatch of Pennsylvania Game Land, writes Frank Kummer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Game Lands are managed areas for hunting, hiking, fishing, and wildlife conservation. Limerick Town Center LLC, a warehouse developer, has proposed trading 559 acres of land across three counties,…
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Villanova University Acquires 8-Acre Site Next to Cabrini Campus
Villanova University has acquired an 8.3-acre residential parcel next to Cabrini University as it looks for opportunities to grow its campus. The parcel at 1250 Upper Gulph Road was purchased for $2.25 million, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal. It is located between the Cabrini campus in Radnor and St. David’s Golf Club in…
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New Crozer-Chester Owner Plans to Restore Hospital, Emergency Services
Chariot Equities has purchased the now-closed Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland for $10 million and hopes to have an agreement within six months with a health system that could restore hospital and emergency services there. The newly-created for-profit Chariot Equities completed the purchase on Wednesday. The plan is to open the first phase of the…
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What To Do When a Person with Dementia Doesn’t Remember You
It’s one thing to understand how dementia affects your loved one, yet it is something else entirely to experience these effects. So, what do you do when a loved one with dementia starts forgetting family members? It’s not uncommon for someone in the middle and later stages of Alzheimer’s disease or dementia to lose the…
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