Directors of the Chestnut Hill Business Association and the Chestnut Hill Community Association agreed last week to establish a joint committee to study more than 30 vacant commercial properties along Germantown Avenue and try to find ways to fill them with tenants.
The CHCA board was initially considering the creation of an ad hoc committee to study the vacancies, but board member Fran O’Donnell, who is also the business association’s main street manager, withdrew the motion to form the committee when Bob Rossman, another CHCA board member, noted that the committee would have to hold public meetings as required by CHCA bylaws.
Katryn Lavanture, a Chestnut Hill area resident who was once referred to as “Mt. Airy’s dolphin lady,” has opened — with business partner Tracie Nichols — the New Way Community Sanctuary, a holistic walk-in stress-reduction, relaxation and wellness clinic, at 709 Bethlehem Pike in Erdenheim. More
When Urban Partners LLC, a real estate planning and investment firm, released a study of the Germantown Avenue business corridor in April of 2005, it cited vacant properties as the number one problem facing Chestnut Hill’s shopping district. MorE
Hill resident Ed Budnick helped other members of the new Chestnut Hill Residents Association clean the SEPTA station behind Borders Bookstore on Saturday, June 27. (Photo by Jaime Perez)
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