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Inner-City Suburbs Rebranded as 'Classic Towns'

Posted by: Tim Halbur
Thanks to: Brad Gudzinas
5 August 2008 - 5:00am

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the MPO for the Philadelphia metropolitan region, has introduced an innovate way of making people aware of the benefits of older, established suburbs: market them.

In launching its Classic Towns program the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission hopes to encourage people to move into inner-ring suburbs.

"All the Classic Towns - the boroughs of Ambler, Bristol, Collingswood, Doylestown, Haddon Heights, Lansdowne, Media, Riverton and West Chester, along with Philadelphia's Manayunk and Overbrook Farms neighborhoods - have made significant comeback strides with a variety of revitalization efforts."

"What they - and nearly 100 older communities like them in this region - now need is a way to get the word out that they are worth considering as a place to live."

Full Story: Campaign will market older towns
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 28, 2008
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