• Saint-Gobain Awarded LEED Platinum Plaque for Its Malvern Headquarters

    Saint-Gobain Awarded LEED Platinum Plaque for Its Malvern Headquarters

    Saint-Gobain has received two LEED Platinum certifications for both the interior and exterior of its Malvern area headquarters building, writes Brian McCullough for Daily Local News. Nearly $80 million was invested into the renovation of the 277,000-square-foot structure before employees of Saint-Gobain and its CertainTeed subsidiary moved in nearly a year ago. The headquarters features…

  • Chadds Ford Live: Hope Fading for Saving Historic Crebilly Farm

    Chadds Ford Live: Hope Fading for Saving Historic Crebilly Farm

    Despite attempts by residents, historians, and preservationists to save historic Crebilly Farm situated at the intersection of Routes 202 and 926 in Westtown Township from development, their hopes of success are fading, writes Kathleen Brady Shea for Chadds Ford Live. After Horsham’s Toll Brothers obtained an agreement to buy the 330-acre property in July, it…

  • Malvern’s IMC Construction to Receive Inaugural Lasallian Impact Award

    Malvern’s IMC Construction to Receive Inaugural Lasallian Impact Award

    Malvern’s IMC Construction will be the first ever recipient of La Salle University’s Lasallian Impact Award during the University’s 25th Annual Charter Dinner on March 25, at Normandy Farms in Blue Bell, according to a staff report from La Salle News. President and CEO of IMC, Robert Cottone, will receive the award, which honors organizations…

  • Saint-Gobain Receives LEED Platinum Plaque for Its Brand New Sustainable Malvern HQ

    Saint-Gobain Receives LEED Platinum Plaque for Its Brand New Sustainable Malvern HQ

    Saint-Gobain held a celebration on Wednesday at its Malvern HQ, where the company was recognized for its commitment to sustainability with the LEED Platinum Plaque by the U.S. Green Building Council and Delaware Valley Green Building Council. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum Certification is the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest level of…

  • Malvern’s Saint-Gobain’s Shows Philly’s LOVE Park Some Love

    Malvern’s Saint-Gobain’s Shows Philly’s LOVE Park Some Love

    Fresh off a transformation of its new headquarters in Malvern, Saint-Gobain is now assembling its building materials expertise for a transformation of downtown Philly’s LOVE Park. A $700,000 recent donation ensures Saint-Gobain will be the park’s presenting sponsor for the first 10 years after it receives its $19.7 million redesign featuring more green space, seating…

  • Saint-Gobain’s LEED Platinum Outshines All Others

    Saint-Gobain’s LEED Platinum Outshines All Others

    Malvern’s shining example of a corporate transformation and sustainable renovation done right officially has no equal. Saint-Gobain and its leading brand, CertainTeed, were just named the prestigious corporate Groundbreaker Award recipient by the Delaware Valley Green Building Council in recognition of the company’s new LEED Platinum-certified headquarters. “Our headquarters is designed to maximize the comfort…

  • Chester County Leadership: Tom Musser, Founder & Chairman of Tri-M Group

    Chester County Leadership: Tom Musser, Founder & Chairman of Tri-M Group

    Publisher’s Note: This Chester County Leadership profile was originally published on April 7th, 2016. When the Chester County Economic Development Council inducts Tom Musser, Founder and Chairman of Kennett Square-based Tri-M Group, into its Business Hall of Fame this evening, they’ll be acknowledging Musser’s 52 years of “outstanding endeavors and achievements within the business community.” …

  • Tri-M’s Chairman and Chester County Business Hall of Fame Inductee W. Thomas Musser Passes Away at 81

    Tri-M’s Chairman and Chester County Business Hall of Fame Inductee W. Thomas Musser Passes Away at 81

    Thomas Musser, Chairman and co-founder of The Tri-M Group LLC and Chester County Business Hall of Fame inductee, passed away on Saturday after battling brain cancer, writes Brian McCullough for Daily Local News. Musser, beloved in Kennett Square and around the County, was remembered this week as a deeply committed and inspirational leader by business…

  • Tri-M Group Co-Founder Lands in Business Hall of Fame

    Tri-M Group Co-Founder Lands in Business Hall of Fame

    He took the concept of an electrical transformer to a whole new level, and now the lifelong Chester County man whose shocking electrical contracting success was transmitted across the eastern seaboard is a business hall of famer. The Tri-M Group Chairman W. Thomas Musser will officially be inducted into the Chester County Business Hall of…

  • After Renovating HQ, Saint-Gobain Rehabs Neighbors’ Homes

    After Renovating HQ, Saint-Gobain Rehabs Neighbors’ Homes

    An impressive reconstruction effort on what’s now Saint-Gobain’s continental headquarters in Malvern is extending to the surrounding metropolitan area and making quite an impression on new homeowners. The Saint-Gobain Foundation and YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School just finished up renovations to two dilapidated Nicetown homes that showcase the global building materials company’s energy-efficient products and help…

  • Hundreds Flock to Colonial Theatre for Groundbreaking

    Hundreds Flock to Colonial Theatre for Groundbreaking

    The hundreds of Phoenixville movie fanatics and culture enthusiasts who flocked to the Colonial Theatre for its $8 million expansion groundbreaking caught a glimpse of what soon will be a blockbuster destination downtown. The next big scene in Phoenixville’s must-see revival is the addition of two more theaters — with seating for 100 and 60…

  • Developers Submit Revised Zoning Overlay Proposal for Devon Yard

    Developers Submit Revised Zoning Overlay Proposal for Devon Yard

    In the wake of opposition from numerous Easttown Township residents, a new zoning overlay ordinance proposal has been submitted by the developers for the plans to build Devon Yard, the new retail and multi-family housing development at and around Waterloo Gardens, writes  Linda Stein for the Daily Local. The revised Devon Yard proposal still includes…

  • New West Chester Apartment Building Exceeds Developers’ Expectations

    New West Chester Apartment Building Exceeds Developers’ Expectations

    As developers Chris and Andrew McCool noticed, there is no shortage of demand for high-end apartments in West Chester. In under a year since the opening of their new building, located at 124 Marketplace in the 100 block of East Market Street, all the apartments are fully leased, and calls looking for vacancies keep coming…

  • Regan Gallo of CertainTeed to Receive the STEP Ahead Award

    Regan Gallo of CertainTeed to Receive the STEP Ahead Award

    Always being the only girl on her school’s Olympics of the Mind competition team helped spur Regan Gallo to pursue her dream and achieve a career in the engineering field, writes Brian McCullough for the Daily Local News. Today, Gallo is Director of Operations in Roofing at CertainTeed, a Saint-Gobain subsidiary with its North American…

  • Sunoco Announces Delay to Mariner East 2 Pipeline and Review on Expansion

    Sunoco Announces Delay to Mariner East 2 Pipeline and Review on Expansion

    Tuesday bought temporary relief for angry landowners along the planned path of the unpopular Mariner East 2 pipeline project, as Sunoco announced that construction on the project has been pushed back due to issues in obtaining all the required permits, writes Andrew Maykuth for Philly.com. The Chief Executive of Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P., Michael J.…

  • West Chester’s Farmers and Mechanics Building is Transforming into a Hotel

    West Chester’s Farmers and Mechanics Building is Transforming into a Hotel

    Thomas Myles IV fell in love with the historic Farmers and Mechanics building during his high school years, and today he is about to fulfill his dream and start the renovations that will turn the beautiful structure at Market and High streets in the borough’s central business district into a hotel, writes Brian McCullough for…

  • CVS Developer Prescribes Historic Tredyffrin Township Building’s Demolition

    CVS Developer Prescribes Historic Tredyffrin Township Building’s Demolition

    A historic Tredyffrin Township destination for more than two centuries has just received a prescription for its demolition from the developer of chain CVS pharmacies, and it’s a hard pill to swallow for the many Chester County residents who share memories of the Old Covered Wagon Inn — and who watched the Mile Post Inn…

  • Eagleview’s Bentley Systems to Co-Design Canada’s Keeyask Dam Project

    Eagleview’s Bentley Systems to Co-Design Canada’s Keeyask Dam Project

    Harnessing the innovation and technical expertise of the region, Exton-based Bentley Systems, in collaboration with Hatch Ltd, has created a new technology which can quickly and precisely compute the design options for the Keeyask Dam, a challenging and groundbreaking CAN$ 6.5 billion project in Manitoba in Canada, according to a staff report fromTenLinks. The project…