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10/23/2026

Marshall Square Park is the oldest public park in West Chester. But the houses around it are the ones people picture when they say they want to live in the borough.

The borough bought the land in 1841 because it’s the highest point in town and they needed a reservoir. It was dedicated as a square in 1848 and named for Humphry Marshall, the botanist Marshallton is named after. In 1878 it became a park, laid out as a small arboretum by nurseryman Joshua Hoopes and modeled on Washington Square in Philadelphia. The Civil War monument to the 97th Regiment went up in 1887 right where the water basin used to be.

In 1889, 3 residents went to Philadelphia and bought a 12 foot cast iron fountain for about $170. 5 scalloped basins and a metal basket on top holding a ball that the water keeps moving. It was the center of the park for 60 years.

Then in the early 1950s the borough pulled it out. The pieces ended up on a farm in East Bradford, sitting in private hands for the next 6 decades while the park went without. Friends of Marshall Square Park tracked the sections down, restored it, and put it back in 2016. The ball is moving again.

Parks like this are what really gave West Chester character. People are driven to move somewhere around here for the beauty that it offers.

Which house on the square would you pick?

10/20/2026

The clock tower on the Chester County Courthouse is the tallest thing in West Chester. At 120 feet, the bell inside it has rung over the borough since 1838, and has never cracked.

The courthouse was designed by Thomas U. Walter, a young Philadelphia architect who later went to Washington and designed the dome on the U.S. Capitol. The bell is older than the building. It hung on the original 1786 courthouse first and moved into Walter's tower when it was finished in 1847.

It was cast in Philadelphia by John Wilbank, the same bellmaker the city hired in 1828 to cast a replacement for the damaged bell at Independence Hall. The damaged 1 is the Liberty Bell. West Chester got 1 that still works.

For its first century the clock had to be wound by hand. The borough's watchmaker climbed the tower every 8 days and cranked it for about 45 minutes. It's electric now.

On the morning of April 10th, 1865, the bell started ringing at sunrise and didn't stop. The telegraph lines were down, so 2 men, Samuel J. Williams and Alexander Gladman, had ridden through the night from Philadelphia to carry the news themselves. Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox the day before, and West Chester found out from the bell.

Next time you're at Market and High at the top of the hour, stop and listen.

10/15/2026

Exton Park is 727 acres that West Whiteland Township and Chester County own together, and the next phase just got funded.

On October 7th, State Senator Carolyn Comitta announced state money through DCNR’s Community Conservation Partnerships Program for Phase 3 of the park: new tennis, pickleball and basketball courts, plus an added parking area.

The township hasn’t announced where in the park they go or when construction starts, so this is funded, not under construction yet. Phase 2 was the Swedesford Recreation Area at Swedesford and Ship roads... the playgrounds, the zip line, the dog park and the big lot, and the master plan has had the courts queued up behind it since 2017.

Funding like this, expanding a public park, makes the area that much better and more desirable. People tend to hear that as “more people will want to move here,” and we’re not sure that’s as big a driving factor as it sounds.

What it does for certain is make the quality of life better for the people who already live here and will use what’s being built. And it gives everyone something really good to look forward to.

Which court are you waiting on?

10/14/2026

Decades of memories have been made at 304 West Swedesford Road, and it’s ready for the next ones.

This is a 1971 Colonial on almost half an acre in Whitford Hills, the kind of lot Exton doesn’t build anymore. The pool is out back, the deck comes off the house, and the covered front porch is where the coffee happens on a Fall morning when the leaves are changing.

Inside is the layout people ask us for. A kitchen with an island and room for a table that opens to the family room, a separate dining room for the nights that call for one, and a brick wood burning fireplace with glass doors that’s going to earn its keep this weekend when it’s 30 degrees. All 4 bedrooms and both full baths are upstairs. The basement is finished and walks right out to the yard, so wet feet go downstairs instead of through the kitchen.

West Chester schools, Mary C. Howse, Peirce and Henderson. 2 car garage with a driveway for 4 more, natural gas, public water and sewer. The things that don’t make a video but make a Tuesday.

Somebody put decades of love into this home, and it shows. The next 30 are yours.

Open house Saturday, October 17th, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm.

Listed by Kerry Stutzman, RE/MAX Action Associates. Message the page or comment HOME and we’ll send the details.

10/08/2026

If you've driven Worthington Road near Bausman lately, you've watched the Gray Farm turn into a construction site.

That's Worthington Farm, 73 single family homes NVHomes is building on about 80 acres in Uwchlan Township. These are big houses, 3 floorplans that run up to 6,345 square feet with finished basements, deep lots, and a lot of them backing to wooded open space.

What people driving past don't know is why it took so long. The old farm had to go through a state Act 2 environmental cleanup before the township would approve a plan, the developer and Uwchlan ended up in court over it, they settled in January 2024, and the plan was finally approved that October.

Howell Engineering in West Chester has been drawing the plot plans for every lot since.

Development is continuing to happen in this area of Chester County because of the demand.

We have no stake in this project. We just think people who live around here should know what's going up.

Who do you know that's already looked at one of these?

Selling the house you've been in for 30 years is a different job than selling one you've been in for 5.Here's what we te...
10/06/2026

Selling the house you've been in for 30 years is a different job than selling one you've been in for 5.

Here's what we tell people the first time we sit down.

- Start decluttering before you have a moving date. After 30 years the attic, the basement and the garage can feel like the biggest obstacle in the whole process, so start with 1 closet, not the whole house. If your kids have things stored there, give them a date to come get them. Take photos of the sentimental things you don't have room to keep. Sell some, donate a lot.

- Walk through with us before you spend money fixing anything. Please don't order a new kitchen because you think you need one to sell. We walk the house first and decide together what's actually worth doing, and cleaning, paint, lighting and small repairs are usually where we start. We also want to look at the basement, the roof and the heating system, and if you're on a well or septic like a lot of the older houses around here, that conversation happens before the sign goes in, not after a buyer's inspection.

- Figure out where you're going before we list it. Do you want to stay near friends in Exton, West Chester, or Downingtown? Do you need fewer stairs, less yard work, or room for the kids and grandkids to visit? There's more 55+ going up around here right now than we've seen in years, and a smaller home won't necessarily mean a smaller monthly expense. So we sit down with actual options, taxes, association fees and maintenance included, and look at where your budget needs to be 5 and 10 years from now, not just today. Taxes and insurance do go up.

- Expect the emotions to show up at unexpected times. You can be completely ready to move and still cry when you empty a bedroom. That's normal. You're sorting through 30 years of memories while making a major decision, so we build in time to pause, and we talk early about how you want your kids involved so you still feel in control of it.

- Your home doesn't have to look brand new, but buyers need to see themselves in it. We keep its character while making rooms easier to see and walk through, which may mean removing extra furniture, clearing the counters and packing up personal photos. Then we make a plan for showings, pets and your schedule, so you know what living through the sale is actually going to look like before it starts. You can control all of that.

If you're thinking about this for yourself or for your parents and haven't talked to anyone yet, message the page. The first conversation is just a conversation.

10/02/2026

QVC has been part of West Chester since Joseph Segel started it here in 1986. But this year it came closer than ever to going under.

In April, QVC Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to cut more than $5 billion in debt. A lot of people around here held their breath, because this is 1 of the biggest employers in Chester County, and HSN had just moved its entire operation from Florida onto the West Chester campus the year before.

But the network never went dark. It operated as usual the whole time, and on August 6th it came out the other side with more than $5 billion less debt. Mike George, who ran QVC for 16 years, is back as interim CEO, and the company is still right here in West Chester.

The trouble came from years of people cutting cable and shopping on social media and online video instead of TV. Coming out of bankruptcy, QVC is repositioning the business around streaming, social media and digital shopping, and it's doing it all from the same West Chester campus that broadcasts to more than 350 million households in 7 countries.

Here's why that matters if you own a home around here or you're thinking about buying one. When a big employer stays put, the people who work there stay put too. They keep living in West Chester and the towns around it, they keep buying homes here, and new hires keep moving in. A company that size leaving would have been felt in a lot of neighborhoods, and it didn't happen.

So if you've been holding off on a move because you weren't sure where things were headed in West Chester, this is 1 less question mark. And if you're thinking about selling in the next year, we can walk you through what's selling around you and what it means for your timing.

Do you know anyone who works at QVC?

09/30/2026

Bentley Systems might be 1 of the biggest companies in Chester County that a lot of people have never heard of.

It was started by the Bentley brothers back in 1984, and it's headquartered right here in Eagleview. Their software is used to design, build and run things like roads, railways, bridges, buildings, power plants and utility networks. So the roads and bridges you drive over on vacation may well have been designed using software from a company based in Exton. Today they have about 5,800 employees and do business in 189 countries, and it all runs out of Eagleview.

And that matters for real estate around here, because companies like Bentley bring people to this part of Chester County from all over.

If you're 1 of them, the first thing we tell you is don't pick a house before you understand the area. Chester County can change quickly from one community to the next, and where you work isn't necessarily where you'll want to live.

The biggest misconception we hear is that you need to live right in Exton to have an easy commute to Eagleview. You don't. Some people stay close in Exton, Chester Springs or Downingtown. Others go toward West Chester, Malvern, Phoenixville or farther west. And around here, the route and the time of day can matter just as much as the miles.

So we start with your lifestyle instead of a town. Walk to restaurants or more land? Newer construction or an established neighborhood? Once we know that, we can usually point you toward 2 or 3 areas that fit.

If you're moving here for a job, message the page and we'll help you figure out where to look before you ever tour a house.

Did you know Bentley was based in Eagleview?

09/28/2026

If you've never been inside Baldwin's Book Barn, you've been driving past one of the best afternoons in Chester County.

The barn on Lenape Road, just outside West Chester, was built by Quakers in 1822 as a 5 story stone dairy barn. For over 100 years it had nothing to do with books.

That part starts in 1934, when William and Lilla Baldwin opened a used book business down in Wilmington. In 1946 they moved the whole thing up to the barn.

They turned the old milking house into the family's home, and the stone barn became the bookshop, and for some years a country store museum too.

Their son Tom grew up in it, helping his dad run the shop from the time he was a young teenager. And what he remembered from those years was the people, customers gathered around the pot-bellied stove or sitting on benches talking politics, history and philosophy.

Tom eventually took over the store himself, and in 2010 he even thought about selling it, but he held on and kept it going as a piece of Chester County history.

80 years after the Baldwins moved in, it's 5 floors and over 300,000 used and rare books, plus maps and prints, packed onto shelves up every staircase and into little nooks where you can sit down and lose an hour.

And you don't really shop there, you wander. You walk in looking for nothing in particular and walk out with something you didn't know you were looking for.

It's open every day from 10 to 5, and it's even better once it gets cold out.

What's the best thing you've ever found in there? And if you've never been, who are you taking?

09/24/2026

If you've driven West Boot Road past the Wawa lately, you've seen the fence and the block walls going up behind the law office at 60 West Boot Road, right next to Boot Road Park.

That's The Darlington at West Chester. When it's done it will be 150 units and 176 beds of personal care and memory care, built by Westrum Development, the same company behind Arbour Square on the other side of town. Like Arbour Square, it's a rental, with meals, housekeeping and transportation rolled into 1 monthly fee.

It almost didn't happen. Westrum first filed for this land in 2022, then pulled the application in February 2023 and told the township financing costs had gotten too high. They came back, got approved, and broke ground this summer.

Here's the part worth paying attention to. This is the second senior community under construction in West Chester right now. Charter Senior Living broke ground April 30th on 162 units at 943 South High Street, with independent living, assisted living and memory care.

Put them together and that's more than 300 units coming to 1 town at the same time, with a third, Columbia Cottage on East Boot Road, approved and waiting to start.

For anyone with a parent starting to think about this move, it means options here instead of 30 minutes away. And every 1 of those units is somebody selling the house they've lived in for 30 or 40 years, which is a lot of homes that haven't been on the market in a long time about to come up in West Chester and Exton.

If that's a conversation happening in your house, message the page. We'll talk through timing on both sides of it.

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