• Lynnewood Hall: An Abandoned Elkins Park Historic Mansion

    Lynnewood Hall: An Abandoned Elkins Park Historic Mansion

    Designed by renowned architect Horace Trumbauer at the end of the 19th century for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener, the historic neoclassical revival mansion Lynnewood Hall now stands abandoned in Elkins Park, writes Cuitandokter. This majestic building is considered to be the Philadelphia area’s largest surviving gilded age mansion. It has 110 rooms, including a…

  • Penn Valley Photographer Publishes New Book Featuring Photos of Women at Work

    Penn Valley Photographer Publishes New Book Featuring Photos of Women at Work

    Chris Crisman, a Penn Valley photographer, has published a new book titled “Women’s Work” that features 56 stunning photographs of women at work, writes Claire Sasko for the Philadelphia Magazine. At the beginning of his book published by Simon & Schuster, the artist writes about his childhood and how he helped his mother, Karen, run…

  • Rents for Premium Apartments and Condo Rentals in Delaware Valley Continue to Rise

    Rents for Premium Apartments and Condo Rentals in Delaware Valley Continue to Rise

    Prices for premium apartments and condo rentals in the area are continuing to rise, forcing many transient workers who come to the Philadelphia region to opt for renting single-family homes instead, writes Katie Park for The Philadelphia Inquirer. According to Barry Ludwig, principal of Conshohocken-based Ludwig Corp., prices have consistently increased in Montgomery, Delaware, Chester,…

  • Arbor Knoll’s Porter floorplan wins Synergy Award from Homebuilders Association

    Arbor Knoll’s Porter floorplan wins Synergy Award from Homebuilders Association

    At its annual Synergy Awards for excellence, the Homebuilders Associations of Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and Delaware Counties awarded Arbor Knoll’s Porter II floor plan the best multifamily floor plan for its size category. At nearly 1700 s.f., the Porter II townhome offers tremendous value for the money. The innovative back-to-back design has a tandem two…

  • Univest Financial awards $5,000 to winner of annual Caring for Community Giveaway

    Univest Financial awards $5,000 to winner of annual Caring for Community Giveaway

    Univest FinancialSM recently announced Quakertown Community Outreach as the winner of its seventh annual Caring for Community Giveaway, a contest that awards $5,000 to a local, nonprofit organization. Quakertown Community Outreach’s mission is to provide a network of resources, services and support to the homeless and at-risk in the Quakertown community. The group provides assistance and direction with the…

  • With New Acquisition, Tower Health to Become Region’s Largest Provider of Urgent Care

    Tower Health, a healthcare system that includes Brandywine Hospital, and Premier Urgent Care have signed an asset purchase agreement for Tower Health to acquire Premier’s 19 urgent care locations that will expand Tower Health’s network of urgent care facilities throughout its service area. When the transaction closes later this fall, Tower Health will become the…

  • West Conshohocken ‘vetera-preneurs’ target worker engagement

    West Conshohocken ‘vetera-preneurs’ target worker engagement

    ­Never ask a veteran how many people he or she has killed in the line of duty. Never assume, either, that a veteran suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and is likely to be emotionally unstable in civilian life. Such insensitivity can lead to problems in the workplace. Indeed, forty-two percent of veterans will leave their…

  • Mid Penn Bancorp Buys Malvern’s First Priority Financial for $82M

    Mid Penn Bancorp is entering the lucrative southeastern Pennsylvania market by acquiring Malvern’s First Priority Financial, writes Joel Berg for Central Penn Business Journal. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The area is attractive to the Millersburg bank due to its growing population and above average household income, according to Rory G. Ritrievi, Mid Penn’s president and CEO. The…