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These Fine Wine & Good Spirits Stores Now Open on Sundays
The Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores located in the Hillcrest Shopping Center in Lansdale and on Shelly Road in Harleysville are now open on Sundays. Pennsylvania’s bipartisan liquor reform signed into law by Governor Tom Wolf this past spring is now in effect. As part of this reform, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is…
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Trio of Attorneys from Lansdale Firm Selected for Best Lawyers in America
J. Edmund Mullin A trio of attorneys from the Lansdale law firm of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2017. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Steven…
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Ardent Credit Union Breaks Ground on New Flagship Location in Oaks
Ardent Credit Union recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at its soon-to-be flagship location, scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of next year in the Oaks Shopping Center. Distinguished guests included Pennsylvania State Representative Warren Kampf, Vice President of the Black Rock Volunteer Fire Department Matt Wanamaker, and Phoenixville Area Community Services representative Donna…
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Ribs, Pulled Pork, and All, Mission BBQ Coming to King of Prussia
Barbeque lovers are in for a treat next year, as Maryland’s Mission BBQ is expanding its number of restaurants in the region by opening one in the upcoming 260,000-square-foot King of Prussia Town Center, writes Kenneth Hilario for the Philadelphia Business Journal. It will join the eight other restaurants that have already signed on to be…
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POKEMONTCO.COM Drawing Tourists to Montgomery County
In the following video, Ed Harris of the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board discusses with Fox 29 the launch of POKEMONTCO.COM, the organization’s attempt to capitalize on the interest in Pokemon Go. “Our new website makes it easier for people who love the Pokemon Go app to come out to Montgomery County and see…
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Horsham’s Toll Brothers Looks to Integrate Residential Development into Jewelers Row
Horsham’s Toll Brothers City Living is fighting an uphill battle with preservationists in Philadelphia over its proposed mixed-use residential and commercial project in the heart of Jewelers Row, writes Sandy Smith for Philadelphia Magazine. Toll Brothers Vice President Brian Emmons recently discussed how Toll Brothers plans to integrate its development into the historic feel of…
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Bryn Mawr’s Aqua America Promotes ‘Top Pick’ to VP, Finance and Treasurer
David P. Smeltzer, CFO of Aqua America, the publicly traded water utility based in Bryn Mawr, has announced the promotion of Stan Szczygiel to vice president, finance and treasurer. In addition to his previous responsibilities, Szczygiel will assume oversight of the company’s accounts payable, payroll, and treasury operations — all areas in which he has…
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One of World’s Oldest Piano Companies Opening Location in King of Prussia
Cunningham Piano, one of the oldest piano companies in the world, is relocating its Philadelphia store and opening a second location across from the King of Prussia Mall, writes Kenneth Hilario for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Founded in 1891, Cunningham Piano started out making pianos by hand, a tradition it continues today and also now…
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Three Montco Restaurants Earn Wine Spectator’s 2016 Award of Excellence
Three Montgomery County restaurants are among the winners of Wine Spectator magazine’s 2016 Restaurant Award of Excellence, which recognizes outstanding restaurant wine selections, writes Ed Williams for The Town Dish. Savona, Joseph Ambler Inn, and Yangming all boast wine lists featuring a well-chosen assortment from quality producers, creating a high-caliber selection. Savona, with one of…
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Rep. Brendan Boyle Tours KOP’s Genomind with Eye Toward Mental Healthcare
King of Prussia’s Genomind, a personalized medicine company bringing innovation to mental healthcare, highlighted the importance of the biotech industry to Pennsylvania when Rep. Brendan Boyle toured its lab last month. Boyle, who represents Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, visited Genomind’s CLIA certified laboratory, where the company performs its proprietary genetic testing focusing on neurotransmitter and…
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Bryn Mawr Resident’s B.Good Franchises Offer Healthier Food Choices
Deb Lutz spent more than 20 years in Corporate America, first as a CPA, then an investment banker, and finally a manager of brands like Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. Despite her success, or perhaps because of it, the 47-year-old graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania had always dreamed…
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Breakaway KofP Wealth Manager, 48-year Career Featured in Wall Street Journal
Most people are retired by their 70th birthday, but Gerald Strid instead saw an opportunity to co-found, with his sons in 2014, King of Prussia’s Concentus Wealth Advisors, writes Norb Vonnegut for The Wall Street Journal. A relatively small fish in the world of wealth management, controlling assets of around $420 million, Concentus is part…
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A Quarter-Billion Dollars Later, Two Finally Become One at King of Prussia Mall
For the first time in its half-century of existence, the King of Prussia Mall will be one huge, gigantic, enormous entity. On Thursday, execs at powerhouse mall owner Simon Property Group plan to connect two ribbons, writes Suzette Parmley for the Philadelphia Inquirer. They’ll take one ribbon from the Plaza, one from the Court, and…
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Destination Montco: Elmwood Zoo: Not Just for Kids
By Rachel Stevenson Is it just me, or has date night become routine? My wife Fay and I have our favorite fallback dates. The standard is dinner, music, and cocktails. On special occasions, we might join friends for a show at the Colonial Theater in downtown Phoenixville. But like most couples, we often end up…
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Four Montgomery County Schools Make Newsweek’s Top 500 List of Best High Schools
Four high schools from Montgomery County have made it onto the Newsweek’s America’s Top High Schools listing for 2016, once more confirming the high quality of education in the area. Newsweek assessed schools across the country based on a number of criteria, among them their student retention, counselor-student ratio, graduation rates, college enrollment rates, as…
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Valley Forge Tourism Board Uses PokeMarketing Genius to Promote Montgomery County
For those still “Zubats” over PokemonGo, the Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board (VFTCB) has you covered. Their new website, PokeMontCo offers the inside scoop on everything Pokemon. While experts anticipate the excitement over PokemonGo to dwindle as school approaches and others can’t wait for the craze to be over, the VFTCB encourage fans to…
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Judge Group Recognized for 2016 Growth
West Conshohocken’s The Judge Group has “once again been recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts on their 2016 list for Largest Staffing Firm in the US and Largest IT Staffing Firm in the US,” according to an article by Yahoo Finance. A leading professional services firm, The Judge Group now sits in the “top tier of…
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Philadelphia NHL Franchise Celebrates 50 Years as “The Flyers” Thanks to a Narberth 9-Year-Old.
Fifty years ago this week, the Philadelphia Flyers announced their new name, according to an article on the NHL Hockey News website. “When the National Hockey League awarded a conditional expansion franchise on Feb. 9, 1966 to a Philadelphia-based group of bidders (Philadelphia Hockey Club) eventually led by Ed Snider, the new team did not…
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