There are so many ways to enjoy life at Main Street at Granite Run, you’ll want to return again and again… for fabulous shopping, delicious dining, and all the amenities of a luxurious lifestyle community.
1512 west Baltimore Pike • Media, Pennsylvania 19063
Welcome to Main Street at Granite Run! The Development Team of Wolfson Verrichia Group, Pennrose Properties, The McKee Group, and The Dewey Companies proudly presents Main Street at Granite Run — an exciting, mixed-use lifestyle center development project on 200 acres. Building on the success of Wolfson Verrichia Group’s award-winning Main Street at Exton lifestyle center, the company’s groundbreaking multi-use project in Chester County, Pennsylvania, the Development Team has designed a first class community for Main Street at Granite Run — a desirable towne center where upscale and anchor retail, elegant and family dining, a mix of housing types, Class A office space, a hotel and conference center, and recreational facilities blend into a delightful, pedestrian-friendly village with ample garage and surface parking and excellent accessibility.
The architectural and environmental design of Main Street at Granite Run artfully integrate the historic heritage and rural countryside of the area with the sophistication of the country’s fifth largest metropolitan market. Designed to be the premier shopping destination in Delaware County, Main Street at Granite Run will be a proud, productive location for many of the country’s finest retailers. Shoppers and diners, residents and guests — all will find much to enjoy, again and again, at Main Street at Granite Run.
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A New Towne Center Main Street at Granite Run is planned as a neo-traditional community built around an open-air shopping plaza of approximately 1.3 million square feet. The center will be surrounded by a range of residential opportunities, including a total of 1,300 townhouses, apartments, condos, and multi-family flats, 400,000 square feet of Class A office space, a 100-room hotel plus a 200-room hotel and conference center, and a 75,000 square foot, 16-screen movie theatre, to create an upscale neighborhood distinguished by dramatic streetscapes, elegant landscaping, and unique storefronts. In this towne center setting, it’s easy to forget that Main Street at Granite
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Run is located about midway between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware — making it accessible to the commercial and cultural resources of these cities in less than 30 minutes. Just one mile east, the historic town of Media — the government seat of Delaware
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destination center will be built on the grounds of the former Franklin Mint property, and surrounded by the lovely rural landscape of Delaware County.
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Near the County Seat and Close to Two Cities Main Street at Granite Run is situated at the heart of centrallylocated Middletown Township, Delaware County’s third largest municipality,
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Wawa’s corporate office and Riddle Memorial Hospital — Middletown Township’s largest employers — and Penn State University Delaware County, are located within one mile from Main Street at Granite Run. Neumann College and Deloitte — with 1,100 employees, the area’s largest management consulting firm — are located within three miles. In addition, the corporate headquarters of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals US, QVC, CIGNA Healthcare and Boeing Philadelphia are all located within the primary trade area of the project. The region is also supported by some of the largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology and public technology companies, including Wyeth, AmerisourceBergen Corp., Centocor, Cephalon, IKON Office Solutions, Vishay Intertechnology, SEI Investments, and SunGard Data Systems. The easy accessibility of Main Street at Granite Run will make the center a popular destination for shopping and dining at lunch, and before and after work. And the close proximity of the center’s hotels will offer upscale convenience for the guests of local businesses and residents. Main Street at Granite Run’s primary trade area includes the popular and historic towns of Chadds Ford, Concordville, Glen Riddle, Granite Run, Media, Newtown Square, Springfield, and Village Green. As of 2005, the population in this area was 716,870 persons, residing in 273,800 households where the average household income exceeds $90,635.
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Prime Retail Opportunity Main Street at Granite Run presents an ideal opportunity for retailers to enter or expand in one of the Philadelphia area’s most rapidly growing markets, in a master-planned shopping center that is poised to become one of the region’s leading retail destinations. In design and execution, Main Street at Granite Run is an all-new development for this metropolitan region. It will delight and surprise; it will exceed your expectations. Situated on U.S. Route 1-Baltimore Pike at State Route 452-Pennell Road in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Main Street at Granite Run is just minutes from the Mid-County Expressway (I-476), which provides quick access to the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276) to the north, and Interstate 95 and Philadelphia International Airport to the south. On busy Route 1 — a major regional north-south artery that intersects U.S. 202 — the site enjoys a daily traffic count of 65,000+ vehicles per day. Over one million people live within a one-day drive. And, for residents, commuters, and shoppers who prefer public transportation, a new SEPTA Regional Rail Line terminal will be located adjacent to Main Street at Granite Run. Lower Level Entrance
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Exciting Retail Destination This exceptional retail destination will introduce
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dozens of new-to-the-market specialty stores, and showcase some of the country’s most popular retailers,
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in a beautifully landscaped, highly accessible setting. Three miles of road improvements and four individual
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traffic signals will moderate the traffic flow, while an interior loop road will make it easy to circumnavigate the open-air retail center, and to access six four-story parking garages — each with enclosed skyways to retail levels — plus ample surface parking.
prestigious must-have apparel, housewares, and lifestyle stores, as well as
Main Street at Granite Run will be anchored by two traditional Fashion Department Stores, a Bookseller, four Junior Anchors, a Movie Theatre, and a Fitness
a delicious array of dining options ranging from quick
Center. Complementing these popular stores, the Main Street storefronts of more than 70 specialty retailers and restaurants will be accented by decorative landscaping on beautiful pedestrian walkways filled with vibrant color, style, and life.
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The Development Team Wolfson Verrichia Group, Inc. and its principals have since 1992
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built a reputation as one of the leading real estate development and management firms in the Delaware Valley. The Company specializes
invites you to consider the outstanding benefits of Main Street at Granite Run, the company’s newest
in high-quality, non-speculative, commercial real estate projects, which includes a portfolio in excess of 7.2 million square feet, including Main Street at Exton, an award-winning model lifestyle center. Headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA, the company has been successful in fostering long-standing relationships with its clients, tenants and business associates, including many of the nation’s largest and most prominent retailers.
Lifestyle Center. We The Dewey Companies, based in Wayne, PA, is a five-time winner of
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the Main Line Builders Association’s “Best Community Award.” Known in Pennsylvania for the developments of Brinton Estates at Cherry
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Creek, Ravens Claw, and Station Square, among other outstanding projects, Dewey Homes excels at creating walkable communities that
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conserve the environment and build a positive legacy. Specializing in multi-family projects and multi-use developments, the company has constructed over 1,000 homes since 1990.
The McKee Group of Springfield, PA, a nationally-recognized pioneer in active adult communities, has earned 11 awards from the Home Builders Association for The Courtyards at Cherry Creek, plus six Pyramid Awards for Excellence from the Main Line Builders Association and the “Community of the Year” award from the Homebuilders Association of Chester and Delaware County for The Villas at Golf View. In 2003, the editors of Where to Retire magazine recognized the company’s Springmill development in Middletown, Delaware as one of America’s 100 Best Master-Planned communities. Pennrose Properties, located in Philadelphia, PA, is nationally recognized as one of the region’s premier developers of mixed-use and multi-family master-planned residential communities. For The Landreth, a former Philadelphia school building that it converted into affordable housing units for seniors and a branch of the Free Library, the company received a “Pillars of the Community” award from the Federal Home Loan Bank. The company’s Salem Historic Homes development in Salem, NJ, earned the “Best Adaptive Reuse” award from Future Smart Growth of the State of New Jersey.
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WOLFSON VERRICHIA GROUP, INC. Meetinghouse Business Center
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Tel 610.277.8899 ◆ Fax 610.277.8880 info@wvgroup.com www.wvgroup.com Developed and managed by an affiliate of Wolfson Verrichia Group, The Dewey Companies, The McKee Group, and Pennrose Properties.