I'm glad to finally see signs of life here beyond Target and Wegmans.

I hope they also add a Corner Bakery. Love that place!

Brings a lot of petty crime to the area....I'd rather travel 30 min than have this 5 min from where I live

Does E. Whiteland fire co. have a ladder truck to reach taller buildings? Is a fire station proposed for that area?

What's the time line for this ?

Three cheers for bike racks and walking trails. Want Chester County to get fit, our kids to stay healthy? Then give us a safe place to burn calories. Awesome!

Sounds like Nirvana! Here's hoping! :-)

Still hoping to see some progress over there.

Aside from the traffic/congestion from this; it is good news. Does anyone know the list of businesses coming to the East King Street project??

Ho hum, another shopping center.

GREAT!! MORE TRAFFIC, MORE CONSTRUCTION............. just what i always wanted to live in - a construction zone. Time to sell the house!!

Good point made about the need for a East Whiteland Fire Dept. substation for that area including the shopping center,corporate center and new turnpike interchange. I know it all cost money but it is an investment in public safety. Better to be pro-active ahead of an incident vs reactive after an incident occurs.A substation for the eastern part of the township is long overdue.Come on township,come on citizens.....let's hear some voices!

East Whiteland is in the process of building a new firehouse adjacent the East Whiteland Township building. I don't believe ground has broken, but the township has been discussing a move from their Planebrook Rd. station for a couple years now and seems to have settled on the site right by the township building. Placing the station by the township building will make in more centrally located and also closer to the GVCC and Uptown Worthington.

will believe it when we see it....O'Neill tried all this before! Is a request to be exempt from property taxes next? We discussed that before too....second the concerns on fire safety, paoli has a ladder truck so we could use theirs if we can't afford our own... Years ago, Rouse/ Liberty was going to fund a sub station but it never happened. On paper it all looks so pretty--this concentration of development will change the surrounding community...remains to be seen if it changes for the better--my prediction is it pulls business from the Rt. 30 corridor and it becomes more empty and sad looking.

Geoff....I was not aware of that plan, sounds real positive,I like that.

A movie theatre with leather seats, drinks and food? Sounds like another Movie Tavern. AWESOME!

Where's this bad economy I've heard so much about? Is there enough housing demand to support the apartments? Is there enough disposable income around here to support all those businesses? I'm sure the developer knows what he's doing. Seems like a good economic sign.

Any update on what's going in at the King Street development?

This is excellent news. I can't say I've seen any work going on there for sometime, is it due to start back up soon ? any estimations on the completion dates ?

I can't wait. Hopefully between this and the Malvern development, our properties will be worth more $$. In this day of skyrocketing gas prices it's nice to know that some comforts will soon be within walking distance for some. Hopefully we can get some good restaurants, not these chain restaurants that churn our the same crap.

I know the Malvern Fire Dept. has a ladder truck and they are right up the road.

I can't wait for all of the restaurants and the outdoor dining! The only places to go around here are McKenzies (good!), the Warren (expensive! but yummy) and the Desmond (not good.) CAN'T WAIT! Now we need to work on getting trails and bike paths from up hill Malvern down there safely!!!

This development will provide the amenities that single urban-oriented, young knowledge workers want to see before accepting a job in the boring old suburbs. Without newr talent, Great Valley Corporate Center will flounder. If GVCC flounders, further (have you seen all the empty offices?) corporate tax revenues will dry up, and local residents will have to make up the difference. So take your choice people: more taxes in a dying suburb; or a vital economically stable and demographically diverse community.

This looks much better than what was planned for the Franklin Mint property in Middletown.

Worthington was factored into the study for locating the new East Whiteland Volunteer Fire Company Station. Pete will be reporting on this great project soon.

For those concerned about aerial fire equipment, East Whiteland utilizes automatic mutual aid from surrounding companies such as Malvern, Paoli, and Berwyn for this service at this end of the township. This means that "ladder trucks" are automatically dispatched for reported building fires.

i love it. now i wont have to drive to wayne. everyone should stop complaining and thank mr oneil for bringing jobs to the area and increasing our real estate value becuase we will have a great "downtown". THANK YOU!!

Very excited about the growth in this area. A lot of opportunity is opening up. Our children will also benefit from the growth via financial support of our schools as well as part time jobs.

The interchange at Rt. 29 and Rt. 30 will have to be updated to handle the volumn of new traffic, not to mention The PA turnpike traffic to the area. Also a turning lane at Rt 30 and Old Lincoln will need to be added. King and Warren will be at dead stop with all this new traffic, so new traffic patterns, maybe "one way" going north on N. Warren ave will have to be studied.

Glad to see some more businesses coming in that will pay taxes to support Great Valley School District! No tax breaks, these businesses will make plenty of $ in the long run, and Great Valley has quite a few retired teachers' pension funds to pay!!

Why wait to condo the units?

Brilliant news. Can't wait for this next stage to be completed. It will be terrific to walk or hop on a bike to a small town area with lots to offer.

Need to connect to more neighborhoods such as Warren village and Malvern Boro itself.

What a positive thing for a former industrial site, it takes a tremendous amount of vision and energy to put something like this together. A very good thing for the residents, and businesses of East Whiteland.

I love this news, as well as all the developments that will be happening on East King Street. Now we just have to get Frazer looking better... that part of route 30 is a bummer!

Jessica, Thank you. I agree. The supervisors could mandate a signage requirement. The EWT supervisors say at their meetings that they don't have to conform to their own laws, so they could override the signage laws to conform to some new standard instead of the hodgepodge we have... Is Grandfathering to old sign zoning set in law??? Somehow I doubt so... At one meeting a couple of years ago, Supervisor Virgnia McMichaels was surprised to learn that the movie theater on Rt 30 could not post movie times closer to their entrance. Now that makes sense considering the controlled, pleasant, well defined signage on Rt. 30!!!

years ago Malvern Boro re-wrote their sign ordinance so all signs would have standard look and feel. If They can do it, EWT can do it

Does anyone know what they have done about the cyanide and VOCs in the soil for the area? Or are planning to do?