Now, I don’t want to offend anyone living in the Mt Airy neighborhood (because it’s a great neighborhood with great people), but it looks like they have been emulating the Chestnut Hill model over the past few years. Invest in the commercial district, and they will come.

To tell you the truth, the stretch between Cresheim Valley Rd and Mt Pleasant Ave is starting to look like one contiguous commercial district that technically starts 2 miles away at Chestnut Hill Ave. Mt Airy & Chestnut Hill are not the same neighborhood, nor are they trying to look like one another; but what they have found is a way to make their shared commercial corridor even more successful.

This article will help shed some light.