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What $3,000 – $7,300 rent buys you in Suburban Square: Easy living, 21st-century style. The first Coulter Place residents move in this week.

January 22, 2026 / By Caroline O'Halloran / 1 Comment /

With 70 swanky shops and restaurants literally at your feet, life at the new Coulter Place apartments offer copious conveniences – if not a whole lot of personal square footage.

It took five years for Suburban Square’s first on-site residences to go from concept and design to demolition and construction.

Are they worth the wait … and their steep price tags?

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore, Bozzuto, Coulter Place, Kimco Realty, mixed-use, new apartments, Suburban Square

Machines think but can they FEEL? A new exhibition in Wayne has answers.

January 19, 2026 / By Caroline O'Halloran / Leave a Comment /

Tucked away on historic Louella Court in Wayne, one of the Main Line’s most futuristic merchants, Colonna Contemporary, is doing its usual visionary thing: getting us to use our eyes to expand our brains.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AI art, art gallery, colonna contemporary, digital art, Louella Court, michele colonna, michele gallagher, syntax of sorrow, Wayne

Popular Wayne restaurant to expand to the former Il Fiore space in Bryn Mawr

January 16, 2026 / By Caroline / Leave a Comment /

It won’t be Enoteca Tredici reincarnated but fans of that dearly departed spot should raise a glass to this news: always bustling Alessandro’s is coming to the ill-fated Il Fiore in Bryn Mawr Village.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: alessandro's, alessandro's pizzeria, Alessandro's Wood Fired Italian & Bar, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr Village, enoteca tredici, il fiore, new restaurant, north wayne ave., Wayne

Can the ultra-rich buy up and reshape a town? Gladwyne’s would-be fairy godparents Janine & Jeffrey Yass and Haldon House plan to remake the historic village in one of the Main Line’s toniest zip codes

January 9, 2026 / By Caroline O'Halloran / 5 Comments /

Colonial Wiliamsburg had John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Northern Delaware had Pierre du Pont.

And now, it seems, historic Gladwyne has Jeff Yass.

The richest man in Pennsylvania, and his wife, Janine, have partnered with a younger husband-and-wife development/design team to both turn back the clock on Gladwyne Village AND propel it into the next century.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andre Golsorkhi, Autumn Oser, Gladwyne, Gladwyne Pharmacy, Gladwyne Square, Gladwyne Village, Haldon House, historic preservation, Homeroom, Janine Yass, Jeff Yass

Radnor Township will buy – or seize – part of Valley Forge Military Academy’s campus for public use

January 6, 2026 / By Caroline O'Halloran / 3 Comments /

Yowza! Radnor Township just rang in the new year with a bang.

At last night’s meeting – their first of 2026, commissioners voted unanimously to take a first step toward seizing by eminent domain roughly 14 acres at Valley Forge Military Academy..

Why? To create a township park and build a recreation center to supplement – and perhaps, replace – Sulpizio Gym in South Wayne.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: eminent domain, Jack Larkin, public park, Radnor commissioners, Radnor rec center, Radnor Township, rec center, Sulpizio gym, Valley Forge Military Academy

Musings on a year of Very Main Line moments

January 3, 2026 / By Caroline O'Halloran / 18 Comments /

Well, that was something. Promising beginnings. Bittersweet endings. Bubbling controversies. And nagging questions.

Long vacant and forlorn, two sleeping giants were nudged awake in Wayne and Devon.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: main line year in review

Glad tidings! Aroma on Ford smells like a winner; Plus, This and That and news worth knowing

December 22, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

After Stella Blu closed in 2018, its handsome West Conshy home, mere minutes from the Main Line, has ricocheted – repeatedly.

For a six months, it was Imbibe Food & Drink, a small-plates spot operated by the chef/owner of Malvern’s Alba.

Then it was Jasper’s West Side Tavern. Then, West Side Bar & Grill.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: alessandro's, aroma on ford, Ballard designs, bsrry's bootcamp, Cardillo, Conshohocken restaurants, desanto, Stella Blu, Vibe Indian Plates & Taps

Hungry to help: The Main Line rises to meet growing food insecurity. One church uses the Eagles to spur donations.

December 21, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

In this land of milk and honey and horses, many go hungry.

Or would go hungry over these holidays were it not for the Main Line’s myriad pantries, food banks, volunteers and donor businesses and comunity groups.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ardmore Food Pantry, Caring Cupboard, ElderNet, food banks, food insecurty, St. Norbert food pantry, Trinity Presbyterian Church, wayne cares, wayne food pantry, Wayne Presbyterian Church

Juggling work, kids and care for older parents? Berwyn-based BOBIcares wants to help.

December 15, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A new kind of matchmaker – pairing families with on-demand caregivers for seniors – just launched on the Main Line.

BOBIcares helps “families and caregivers choose each other directly, almost like a dating app,” explains co-founder Alison Bowers, who lives in Berwyn.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: alison bowers, bob bowers, BOBIcares, homecare, on-demand senior care, senior care

Philly fave Love & Honey Fried Chicken debuts in Bryn Mawr

December 12, 2025 / By Caroline O'Halloran / /

A whole lotta love and a wee bit ‘o honey are the secret sauce fueling Bryn Mawr’s new Love & Honey Fried Chicken.

Locally owned and operated by a Berwyn family, this is Love & Honey’s first Main Line store and second franchise location with many more en route, including one in King of Prussia.

A flotilla of foodies, influencers and regular folk have long deemed the original Love & Honey in Northern Liberties Philly’s finest fried chicken.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bill Kirkland, Bryn Mawr, chicken sandwiches, chicken tenders, fried chicken, Love & Honey Fried Chicken, Sharon Purser

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  • What $3,000 – $7,300 rent buys you in Suburban Square: Easy living, 21st-century style. The first Coulter Place residents move in this week.
  • Machines think but can they FEEL? A new exhibition in Wayne has answers.
  • Popular Wayne restaurant to expand to the former Il Fiore space in Bryn Mawr
  • Can the ultra-rich buy up and reshape a town? Gladwyne’s would-be fairy godparents Janine & Jeffrey Yass and Haldon House plan to remake the historic village in one of the Main Line’s toniest zip codes
  • Radnor Township will buy – or seize – part of Valley Forge Military Academy’s campus for public use

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