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DVRPC Launches Campaign for 'Classic Towns'

PHILADELPHIA-The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and 11 older suburbs team up to promote residential and business growth.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on July 29, 2008

PHILADELPHIA-Eleven older suburbs will work with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission on Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia, a marketing program intended to promote residential and business growth in these communities. With the launch of the ClassicTowns.org website earlier this week, the DVRPC hopes to start raising awareness of communities that homeowners and businesses have frequently overlooked in recent years.

“We’re getting a lot of growth in Center City and certainly a lot of growth in emerging suburbs, but a lot of the inner-ring older suburbs were struggling with loss of jobs and loss of residents,” Barry Seymour, executive director of the DVRPC, tells GlobeSt.com. “There were a few that were doing their own marketing, but we realized that with so many communities in our region and each one trying to get their own message out, they would get lost. So we created the Classic Towns umbrella to help them market together.”

Eight of the inaugural “classic towns” are in Pennsylvania: Ambler in Montgomery County; Bristol and Doylestown in Bucks County; Lansdowne and Media in Delaware County; West Chester in Chester County; and the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Manayunk and Overbrook Farms. Also included are three New Jersey communities: Collingswood, Haddon Heights and Riverton. Each will kick in $2,500 per year to help fund the program, matched by DVRPC, Seymour says.

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