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Plymouth Meeting Resident First to Receive Non-Invasive Treatment for Essential Tremor in Pennsylvania
John Lukens from Plymouth Meeting is the first person in Pennsylvania to receive a non-invasive brain procedure to treat Essential Tremor, writes Lynne Adkins for CBS Philly. The sixty-one-year old suffers from the movement disorder that makes everyday tasks almost impossible. To fix this, Pennsylvania Hospital doctors used ultrasound waves to target the portion of…
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City Avenue Shopping Center Thriving by Constantly Adjusting to Consumers Needs
City Avenue Shopping Center in Overbrook Park is addressing the growing threat from internet shopping by continuously adapting to consumer needs, writes Suzette Parmley for Philly.com. To achieve this, the 162,135-square-foot center on Route 1 at the edge of Montgomery County, is now occupied by smaller stores. These include TJ Maxx and Ross Dress for…
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MONTCO Careers – Inovio Pharmaceuticals
Plymouth Meeting’s Inovio Pharmaceuticals is engaged in the development of a new generation of vaccines, called synthetic vaccines, focused on cancers and infectious diseases like cervical dysplasia, avian influenza, prostate cancer, and HIV. Associate Director, Clinical Compliance This position manages and oversees the development and approval of control documents related to clinical study processes and systems, reviews…
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Keystone Property Group Gets Green Light for Ambitious Conshohocken Project
Keystone Property Group is bringing an ambitious new development project to Conshohocken, writes Matthew Rothstein for Bisnow. The company, which has its corporate headquarters in Conshohocken, has been given approval for a multifaceted development next to the town’s SEPTA train station. The project includes a 250,000-square-foot office building and a hotel with 171 rooms that…
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Bala Cynwyd Green Energy Company Not Worried About Future Business
Despite Trump’s recent withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Bala Cynwyd’s ERA Environmental Management Solutions is optimistic about future business opportunities, writes Joyce M. Rosenberg for Herald Dispatch. According to owner, Gary Vegh, “nobody’s coming out and telling us they’re going to stop doing a project.” In addition he noted that a big part of the…
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Main Line Chamber Foundation to Host Celebration of Hometown Heroes on Tuesday
The Main Line Chamber Foundation will host the 8th Annual “Celebration of Hometown Heroes” on Tuesday, June 13 at 6:30 PM in the Board Room of the Lower Merion Township Administration Building, located at 75 East Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore. The public is encouraged to attend as $53,000 in scholarships – the most ever awarded…
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Glenside’s Matt Rambo Wins Best American College Lacrosse Player Award
Glenside’s Matt Rambo, already regarded as one of the best ever lacrosse players from the Philadelphia area, has won this year’s Tewaaraton Award for the most outstanding American college lacrosse player, writes Joseph Santoliquito for Philly Voice. Rambo, who turns twenty-three next month, started his lacrosse career playing for LaSalle College High School. He then…
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Harriton, Wissahickon, Perkiomen Valley, Lower Merion and Souderton are County’s Most Challenging High Schools
Sometimes a good challenge is all it takes to push students to achieve their full potential, and in Montgomery County, that’s happening the most at Harriton, Wissahickon, Perkiomen Valley, Lower Merion and Souderton high schools. All five ranked among Pennsylvania’s top 20 for The Washington Post’s 2017 listing of America’s Most Challenging High Schools. The…
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All But Home Values on the Move in Philly Suburbs
Life is moving forward all across the Philly suburbs, but homeowners are struggling to move with it. Despite countywide population growth, abundant new developments like in King of Prussia and successfully redesigned downtowns in Ardmore and Media, the median value of all suburban homes — sold and unsold — is down 19 percent while homes…
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Sheetz and Wawa Battle for Customers’ Hearts
Of the 700 Wawa stores across half a dozen states, only 40 to 50 actually compete with a Sheetz, but the tug of war on customers’ hearts is all too real. Sheetz, one customer insisted in a NewsWorks report by Eleanor Klibanoff, is “a poor man’s Wawa. It’s the same concept as Wawa with the…
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Check Out Which Montgomery County-Based Companies Landed on This Year’s Fortune 500
Montgomery County is home to a trio of Fortune 500 companies: Universal Health Services, UGI, and Toll Brothers. King of Prussia-based UHS, led by Chairman and CEO Alan B. Miller, moved up 14 spots from its prior-year ranking, checking in at No. 276 after having generated $10.5 billion in revenues during the 2016 fiscal year.…
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Valley Forge Casino Resort’s Owner Donates $5M to Penn State
Ira Lubert, principal owner of King of Prussia’s Valley Forge Casino Resort and chair of Penn State’s Board of Trustees, has donated $5 million to the university, writes Mark Wogenrich for The Morning Call. $2.4 million of this will go to the Millennium Scholars program while another $1.75 million will help finance renovations to Penn…
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Ardmore’s Suburban Square Embracing Lifestyle Concept
Faced with mounting competition from King of Prussia and Center City, Ardmore’s Suburban Square is evolving from being just another a retail center into one that embraces a lifestyle concept, writes Richard Ilgenfritz for Main Line Times. “When we acquired the asset, the retail environment was a little bit different around Philadelphia,” said Tom Simmons,…
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Bala Cynwyd Welcomes Revitalized Citron & Rose Tavern and Market
Bala Cynwyd’s Citron & Rose Tavern and Market has reopened with a new look and a menu that offers homely comfort foods, writes Rachel Winicov for Jewish Exponent. David Magerman, CEO of Six Points Restaurant Group, said that originally Citron & Rose had a more expensive niche menu. This meant that customers mostly only came…
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West Conshohocken’s SMG Wins Major Management Contract in China
West Conshohocken’s facilities management firm SMG, has successfully landed a major contract in China for the upcoming Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, writes Harold Brubaker for Philly.com. Construction on the Center began in September last year with the first phase expected to open in two years. When finished, it will provide around 4.3 million-square-feet…
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Harleysville’s Griffin Quintuplets Heading to Montgomery County Community College
Harleysville quintuplets, Austin, Evan, Miranda, Lindsay, and Dillon Griffin, are about to graduate from Souderton Area High School and head to Montgomery County Community College in the fall, writes Bob Keeler for Souderton Independent. The five siblings got driven to school for their first nineteen years but “just recently, Evan got a car,” said their…
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Sunnybrook’s Andrew Turner Wins PGA Event on Home Course
Honey Brook’s Andrew Turner took full advantage of his home turf to win the coveted $100,000 first prize at the Haverford Trust Philadelphia PGA Classic held at Plymouth Meeting’s Sunnybrook Golf Club, writes Joe Juliano for Philly.com. “I think the biggest check I ever won before this was five or six thousand bucks,” said Turner.…
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Philadelphia Unemployment Project Aims to Reduce Suburban Jobs Inaccessible by Public Transportation
To help commuters reach jobs in the suburbs, Philadelphia Unemployment Project is lobbying Philadelphia’s city council for $750,000 to expand the organization’s Commuter Options program, writes Jane M. Von Bergen for Philly.com. The Commuter Options program currently provides around 150 city residents with a car pool option to get their jobs in nearby counties. To…
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