Philadelphia Region
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Broomall’s Visual Sound Made Sure Campaign Visit and Opioid Crisis Forum Were Seen and Heard
Sen. Elizabeth Warren made her first campaign stop in Philadelphia May 13, hosting a town hall meeting with teachers and students in Northeast Philadelphia, reported Visual Sound, which provided audio and visual support for the event. The meeting was attended by about 200 educators and 100 students from Abraham Lincoln High School in Holmesburg. The…
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Media Man Creates Trump Toilet Robot for London Protests
A man from Media built the 16-foot-tall robot of President Donald Trump tweeting on a golden toilet that’s making the rounds in London during President Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom, writes Taylor Horn for NBC Philadelphia. Don Lessem spent $25,000 to create his ‘Dumping Trump’ statue for Trump’s visit to the U.K. “We wanted…
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River Avenue Digital in Media Takes Small Business Award
So how did a digital marketing company at 24 Veterans Square in Media Borough end up with the name River Avenue Digital LLC? It was a natural choice for founder and owner Josh Irons of West Chester. River Avenue conjures up two of his favorite memories—his grandfather and baseball. His grandfather lived on River Avenue…
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Delco Firm Seeks Second Facility As Demand for Its Recycled Glass Product Grows
A Delaware County company that turns old glass into a stone-like product for construction projects raised $10 million to open a second facility outside the region, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Eddystone-based AeroAggregates turns recycled glass, often an undesirable product on the recyclables market that municipalities struggle to dispose of, into lightweight…
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Havertown Company Gives Norristown Food Cupboard a New Look
The Patrician Society of Norristown got a fresh new look recently, thanks to the generosity of Pennsylvania’s largest family-owned residential painting business, writes Guy Puleo for the Daily Times. Nolan Painting donated nearly $8,000 in labor and materials to renovate the charitable organization’s headquarters at 121 E. Chestnut St. The charitable effort is part of the Havertown-based…
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New Drexel Hill Hotel Completes Family’s Catering Mission
A ribbon cutting Thursday officially opened Drexelbrook’s Holiday Inn & Suites, concluding a family’s hospitality mission. William Kay II, general partner for Drexelbrook Associates, owner of the $16 million hotel, thanked everyone for celebrating “another milestone in our long and storied history.” The ribbon cutting included receptions and tours of the ultra-modern H4 hotel, the first…
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Chester Prison to Test ‘Prisoner-First’ Inmate Units
The state prison in Chester (SCI Chester) is testing a new kind of prison unit, one focused on a prisoner-first approach, writes Adam Hermann for PhillyVoice. The State Correctional Institution, Chester, will use a $163,000 grant to send 12 corrections employees to Sweden and Norway to research the Scandivanian countries’ prisons in the hopes they…
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Wawa Closing in on 7-Elevens in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia proper, Wawa is closing in on its competitor—7-Eleven, writes Danya Henninger for billypenn.com. The 7-Eleven store has been the Philly market leader for over a decade. As of May 2019 it maintains 55 outposts inside the city limits. Wawa has 44 Philly stores. That’s a big switch from the turn of the millennium,…
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Soccer Community Reaches Out at Union Game to Grieving Boy
For 9-year-old Ian Alexander, who recently lost his father, attending a Philadelphia Union game took on even more significant meaning, writes Mathew Ralph for brotherlygame.com. Alexander attended a game with his Roxborough United teammate, Ben Franklin Mitchell. The Mitchells, who knew Ian’s dad through his club involvement as a parent and coach, gave Ian the…
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Nancy Pelosi Visits Community College to Highlight College Affordability Proposal
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to Delaware County Community College in Media Friday to talk about making college affordable, and seemed eager to move on from recent, high-profile spats with President Donald Trump, writes Avi Wolfman-Arent for WHYY.org. “I don’t care about that and I’m not even going there,” Pelosi told the media in attendance.…
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New York Hotel Management Firm Opens Office in Drexel Hill
A New York hotel development and management company has set up its mid-Atlantic headquarters in Drexel Hill, with the goal of increasing its team as it adds properties, writes Kenneth Hilario for Philadelphia Business Journal. Prestige Hospitality Group from Albany, N.Y., expanded to the Philadelphia area with an office in Drexel Hill that will serve…
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Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show: Where Antiques and Art Meet
A 48-year tradition returns Memorial Day weekend when the annual Antiques Show opens at the Brandywine River Museum. Fine antiques, including furniture, rugs, porcelain, needlework and much more will be on sale and on display by 26 dealers from the mid-Atlantic and beyond. Proceeds from this fundraising event benefit the Museum Volunteers’ Purchase Fund and…
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Just In Time for HoagieFest, a Spotify Playlist of Wawa Tunes
For years, Wawa fans have written songs to their favorite convenience store, writes Stephanie Farr for philly.com. Now, a playlist of four songs entirely dedicated to Wawa and its HoagieFest has dropped on Spotify. Lettuce break these songs down for you: “H.O.A.G.I.E.F.E.S.T” by The Meatball Mann and Shorti K. This sounds like the Delco version if Taylor Swift wrote a…
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Radnor-Based Avantor IPO Most Valuable Seen in Years
Avantor, a drug-laboratory equipment and chemical supplier, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, raising about $3 billion for investors with an initial public stock offering of $14 a share that closed at $14.48, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for philly.com. It is one of the most valuable IPOs by a Philadelphia-area company in…
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See Which Local Universities Nabbed a Top 100 National Spot According to U.S. News
Six Pennsylvania’s universities found themselves in the top 100 national rankings from U.S. News & World Report’s annual report, writes Kim Strong for the York Daily Record. All of the schools tied with other schools in the nation. University of Pennsylvania ranked No. 8. U.S. News.noted the success of its graduate programs like the Wharton School and its…
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For Flexible Flyers, Startup Has Great Philly Deals
A new startup company called Moonfish finds cheap deals on flights leaving out of Philadelphia International Airport, writes David Murrell for phillymag.com. George Zeng, a Wharton MBA grad and former engineer at Facebook, started Moonfish when he noticed major fluctuations in flight prices. He designed a search engine that finds the best deals by tracking…
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Five High Schools in Delco Among Top 25 with the Best Teachers in Greater Philly
Delaware County is home to five of the Top 25 Public High Schools with the Best Teachers in Greater Philadelphia, writes Clara Lefton for The Philadelphia Business Journal. Niche.com recently published its 2019 list of the Public High Schools with the Best Teachers. It based its ranking on analysis of academic and teacher data from…
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Philly Metro Area an Accurate Representation of America’s Current Demographic Makeup
Philadelphia and its surrounding area accurately represent the country’s current demographic makeup, according to a new study by data website FiveThirtyEight, writes Adam Hermann for PhillyVoice. To discover which metropolitan areas with at least 500,000 residents best reflect the nation’s demographic makeup, the site used various measures, including age, educational attainment, race, and ethnicity. The…
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