Life is changing drastically for the 40-year-old Great Valley Corporate Center on Route 202 in Malvern. A year from now, its mid-life crisis will start creating three or four taller 200,000-square-foot office buildings mixed amongst two or three luxury rental complexes, a hotel, retail storefronts and open green space.

“To attract and maintain employees, employers tell us their (workers) want to have a sense of place, a sense of where they are,” said project developer Liberty Property Trust’s Vice President and City Manager Anthony ‘Tony’ Nichols in a Daily Local News feature. “They want to be part of a place that has life, and that means walkability and-mixed use are key elements.”

Helping push for the drastic 50-acre redevelopment was the opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s new next-door interchange, a widened Route 202 and a rash of other new residential developments in the area.

“The glass and metal-paneled 3 Quarry Ridge in Great Valley would be the office building model for what Liberty wants to build in coming years,” the article stated. “Vanguard operates a technology operation in the six-story building. It has the prerequisite fitness center as you walk in, collaboration spaces on each floor with food available in common areas, an outdoor patio, televisions, a cafeteria, ATMs and a sculpture that spans a staircase all the way up the six stories.”

And the new buildings will cost $45 million to $60 million, split up over three phases beginning in 2016.

Read more about the plans for the new Great Valley Corporate Center in the Daily Local News here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of the project here.