• New 230-unit Waterfront Apartment Project Coming to Conshohocken

    New 230-unit Waterfront Apartment Project Coming to Conshohocken

    High Street Residential, a subsidiary of Trammell Crow, is planning to develop a 230-unit apartment building on a site beside SEPTA’s Conshohocken Regional Rail station, writes Jacob Adelman for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Trammell Crow unit builds apartment and condominium projects. It recently acquired a six-acre waterfront tract where it will construct a five-story building…

  • Pottstown Singer One of Most-Followed TikTok Influencers

    Pottstown Singer One of Most-Followed TikTok Influencers

    Loren Gray, the Pottstown teenager who rose to fame five years ago on Musical.ly, is one of the most-followed influencers on TikTok, according to a staff report from Yahoo!Life. Gray created an account on the musical platform which has since merged with TikTok while she was still in middle school. At the time, she did…

  • Wiser Wealth Wednesday: The 30 Biggest Money Mistakes People Make in an Economic Downturn

    Wiser Wealth Wednesday: The 30 Biggest Money Mistakes People Make in an Economic Downturn

    Sometimes the right decisions aren’t always the most obvious, especially when coping with the stress of a recession or financial crisis, writes Justin Metz for The Wall Street Journal. Many of us haven’t faced an economic downturn in a long time and need help navigating it. Avoiding common pitfalls in the way we save, invest,…

  • Hotel of the Week: Hilton Garden Inn Valley Forge in Oaks

    Hotel of the Week: Hilton Garden Inn Valley Forge in Oaks

    With 80 world class hotels in Montgomery County, The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board spotlights the Hilton Garden Inn Valley Forge located in Oaks as the Hotel of the Week. The hotel offers 135 spacious rooms, more than 4,000-square-feet of flexible event space, a restaurant serving breakfast and dinner, and a full bar. “The…

  • A Refundable $100,000 Deposit Gives Any Buyers a Shot at Owning Region’s Most Expensive Estate

    A Refundable $100,000 Deposit Gives Any Buyers a Shot at Owning Region’s Most Expensive Estate

    Arbor Hill in Fort Washington, a sweeping estate owned by Dennis Alter, former chief executive of now-defunct Advanta, has been put up for private auction after spending eight years on the market, writes Katie Park for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Alter is auctioning off 50 of the estate’s nearly 70 acres. When the entire property first…

  • Jerusalem Post: Presidential Election Is Polarizing Philadelphia Region’s Large Jewish Community

    Jerusalem Post: Presidential Election Is Polarizing Philadelphia Region’s Large Jewish Community

    With the presidential election only weeks away, the Philadelphia region’s large Jewish community is becoming increasingly more polarized on the issue, writes Omri Nahmais for The Jerusalem Post. Capturing every vote in Pennsylvania is of crucial importance to both candidates, as both FiveThirtyEight and The Economist presidential models highlight the Keystone State as the likeliest…

  • Philadelphia Inquirer Closing Upper Merion Printing Plant, Laying Off 500 Employees

    Philadelphia Inquirer Closing Upper Merion Printing Plant, Laying Off 500 Employees

    The Philadelphia Inquirer is closing and selling the Schuylkill Printing Plant in Upper Merion Township, laying off around 500 people in the process, write Andrew Maykuth and Juliana Feliciano Reyes for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The newspaper will shift production to a New Jersey contractor. The goal of this cost-cutting move is to ensure the survival…

  • KOP Business Community Honors First Responders with Week of Appreciation

    KOP Business Community Honors First Responders with Week of Appreciation

    The week of Sept. 21, King of Prussia District along with Upper Merion Township and sponsors honored the community’s first responders with UMT’s first annual First Responders Appreciation Week. The Appreciation Week, presented by the Valley Forge Shopping Center, kicked off with a luncheon and press event at Swedesburg Volunteer Fire Company. Speakers, including Executive Director of…

  • Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro Offers Sweet Spin on Traditional Presidential Poll

    Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro Offers Sweet Spin on Traditional Presidential Poll

    Lochel’s Bakery in Hatboro is putting a sweet spin on the traditional presidential poll by offering election cookies that represent each of the candidates, writes Matt Petrillo for CBS Philly. “We started our election cookie poll,” said Kathleen Lochel, the Bakery owner. Customers can show their political preferences by purchasing Trump or Biden butter cookies.…

  • The Lincoln Center: How to Give Your Brain a Break

    The Lincoln Center: How to Give Your Brain a Break

    By Rachel Gruen, LCSW, CCTP Do you ever feel like the inside of your brain is one of those amusement park Tilt-A-Whirl rides? You are not alone! We are bombarded daily with a non-stop flow of information from our phones, our computers and from television. These days, we seem to be connected to the internet…

  • One of Main Line’s Power Women 2020 is President, CEO of Bala Cynwyd Marketing Firm

    One of Main Line’s Power Women 2020 is President, CEO of Bala Cynwyd Marketing Firm

    Karen Crane, President and CEO of Bala Cynwyd-based Crane Communications, is one of Main Line’s Power Women 2020, writes Lisa Dukart for the Main Line Today. Crane spent years in the advertising business before she opened her own full-service agency made up of women who represent various local and national organizations. For more than 25…

  • Malvern Bank House of the Week: Stunning Main Line Colonial Masterpiece

    Malvern Bank House of the Week: Stunning Main Line Colonial Masterpiece

    The Fruits, a stunning colonial masterpiece with six bedrooms and six full and three half bathrooms is available for sale in Villanova. This turn-key mansion, designed by famous architect Fred Bissinger, is situated on a 4.07-acre property with impeccable landscaping, lush greenery, beautiful gardens, and spacious bluestone patios. There is also a Hamptons-style pool and…

  • Ambler-based Phenom Continues Growth with Acquisition of Silicon Valley Company

    Ambler-based Phenom Continues Growth with Acquisition of Silicon Valley Company

    Ambler-based Phenom, a hiring-software maker, is continuing to grow through the acquisition of My Ally, a Silicon Valley software firm that automates the scheduling of job interviews, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Their curious, energetic culture fits well with our own,” said Phenom CEO Mahe Bayireddi. The financial details of the deal…

  • If Sale Goes Through, Jefferson Plans to Shut Einstein Healthcare’s ER at Elkins Park

    If Sale Goes Through, Jefferson Plans to Shut Einstein Healthcare’s ER at Elkins Park

    If Thomas Jefferson University can complete its acquisition of Einstein Healthcare Network which the Federal Trade Commission is suing to block, it is planning to shut the emergency department at Einstein’s small Elkins Park campus, writes Harold Brubaker for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The university would also eliminate the 60-bed inpatient program and replace the two…

  • Toll Foundation’s $50M Penn Law Gift to Double Number of Public Interest Graduates

    Toll Foundation’s $50M Penn Law Gift to Double Number of Public Interest Graduates

    The Robert and Jane Toll Foundation has gifted 50 million to the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School to double the number of graduates who plan to pursue public interest careers, writes Sam Wood for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Robert Toll is a cofounder of Horsham-based Toll Brothers, the luxury homebuilder, and a Penn Law graduate.…

  • Hotel Hero: Aazheé Chapman, Sales Coordinator

    Hotel Hero: Aazheé Chapman, Sales Coordinator

    The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board recognizes Aazheé Chapman, Sales Coordinator at the Homewood Suites Horsham, as this week’s Hotel Hero. Nominated by Katelynn Weaver, Director of Sales and Marketing, Chapman joined the hotel’s pre-opening team in June 2019 as a sales coordinator and has proven to be an instrumental part of the hotel’s…

  • Narberth’s Madame Fromage Completes Her Mission to Try Every Cheese Di Bruno Bros. Offers

    Narberth’s Madame Fromage Completes Her Mission to Try Every Cheese Di Bruno Bros. Offers

    Tenaya Darlington, a St. Joseph’s University English professor who moved to Narberth fifteen years ago from Wisconsin, has completed her mission to try all 350 kinds of cheeses Di Bruno Bros. has to offer, writes Jenn Ladd for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “My Wisconsin neighbors told me, ‘When you get homesick for cheese, go to this…

  • Bala Cynwyd-Based Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to Merge with Florida-Based Childhood Cancer Nonprofit

    Bala Cynwyd-Based Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to Merge with Florida-Based Childhood Cancer Nonprofit

    Bala Cynwyd-based Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation will merge with I Care I Cure, a Florida-based nonprofit, to jointly continue their battle against childhood cancer, according to The NonProfit Times. The two organizations have previously partnered to fund 24 cutting-edge research projects. “We are seeing more of this consolidation of nonprofits within the childhood cancer community,…