• Restore Integrative Wellness Center to open marijuana dispensary in Elkins Park

    Restore Integrative Wellness Center to open marijuana dispensary in Elkins Park

    After opening its first medical marijuana dispensary in Philadelphia’s Fishtown section last March,  Restore Integrative Wellness Center is scheduled to open a second location. The Montgomery County site will be the 12th dispensary to open in southeastern Pennsylvania since the start of the year. The 5,000-square foot dispensary in Elkins Park, about the same size as…

  • Desmin and Jania Daniels opening an outpost of their Rose Petals Café in Elkins Park’s Yorktown Plaza

    Desmin and Jania Daniels opening an outpost of their Rose Petals Café in Elkins Park’s Yorktown Plaza

    Five years after opening their first restaurant, Desmin and Jania Daniels, the husband-and-wife team behind the beloved Rose Petals Café in Germantown, are set to open their second location this September in the Yorktown Plaza at Church Road and Old York Road in Elkins Park The Daniels’ second Rose Petals Café location, which will open…

  • House of the Week: Elegance in Elkins Park

    House of the Week: Elegance in Elkins Park

    This week’s House of the Week is an extensive 5,400 S.F. property was constructed at the turn of the last century for Harry W. Jayne, a Chemist who owned a series of manufacturing plants for the refining of coal-tar products. In the 1920’s, John H. Sinberg (a writer with the Philadelphia Record) purchased the home…

  • Elkins Park real estate company buys shopping complex for $55.3M

    Elkins Park real estate company buys shopping complex for $55.3M

    Abrams Realty & Development company, based in Elkins Park, has been reported to be the buyer of MacArthur Commons, a nearly 372,000 square foot complex whose anchor tenants include a Burlington Coat Factory, a GIANT grocery store and Dick’s Sporting Goods. A few months back, Abrams was part of a partnership that acquired another retail center…

  • Elkins Park’s Mark Levin getting his own show

    Elkins Park’s Mark Levin getting his own show

    Fox News has tapped popular conservative talker Mark Levin to host its newest show Levin, a longtime syndicated talk show host both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity cite as a major influence, will host a new weekend primetime program on Fox News that will debut in 2018, writes Rob Tornoe for philly.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″]   The hour-long…

  • Montco native Nicole Cashman talks PR, early learning and party planning

    Montco native Nicole Cashman talks PR, early learning and party planning

    Over nearly two decades, Nicole Cashman has grown her single-employee start-up shop into one of the most formidable public relations powers in the region. Cashman & Associates, now a 17-person Old City firm, reps bigwig restaurants and hotels (Starr Restaurants [No. 6], AKA), retail and development behemoths (Century 21 Department Stores, Brandywine Realty Trust [No.…

  • Physician at Temple University Hospital Also Serves as Chaplain

    Physician at Temple University Hospital Also Serves as Chaplain

    Jocelyn Edathil, M.D., Ph.D. from Elkins Park, serves both as a physician at Temple University Hospital and its unofficial chaplain as one of the Sisters of the Imitation of Christ, writes Tracey Romero for Philly Voice. Edathil wears her traditional white lab coat when making her rounds at the hospital, but underneath it is the…

  • German Doctoral Candidate Examines ’70s-Era History of Abortion in Local Jewish Community

    German Doctoral Candidate Examines ’70s-Era History of Abortion in Local Jewish Community

    Julia Gross, a German doctoral candidate and the current Elkins Park resident, is examining the history of abortion in the local Jewish community in the seventies, writes Rachel Kurland for Jewish Exponent. Originally from Germany, Gross moved to Elkins Park a year ago to be close to family in Blue Bell and began researching the…