Beiler-Campbell Realtors Day of Service

Our company is all about community. We have served our local community since 1973 with integrity and excellence. One of the things, I believe, that really sets us apart is our collective heart for service. We firmly believe in supporting our neighbors.

This year we hosted our Annual Charity Golf Tournament and raised over $40,000 for Family Promise of Southern Chester County and After the Bell Kennett Square. Our Spring Community Food Drive provided over 10 truckloads of food to families in need in our area.

Every fall, we take a day as a company and perform acts of service in tangible ways within our neighborhoods. This year we sent a group to Tick Tock Early Learning Center in Avondale to build cubbies, a home of a Veteran in Coatesville needing maintenance, cleanup and landscaping at a volunteer-maintained Oxford Cemetery, dance parties, karaoke, manicures and games with the folks at Friends Home in Kennett, and repairs to a home in Nottingham. Additionally, we held a food drive in which Anvil Land Transfer and Delaware Valley Financial Mortgage matched the donations! The food was delivered to local food cupboards. This is a re-build of a deck and ramp so that one of our neighbors can easily access their home.

In just a few hours, the deck and ramp looked brand new! Great work!!

The Oxford Cemetery is “volunteer maintained”, so Beiler-Campbell volunteers manicured and spruced up the gravesites in honor of those who’ve gone before us and their families.

New Site for the Kennett Library

The Weinstein Lot has been sold to the Kennett Library for the proposed new site for the library. It is conveniently located just one block east, so it won’t affect walkability and accessibility for the residents of Kennett Borough.

In the meantime, the borough has received a $500,000 grant to fund a parking garage expansion, which should assist in relocating those who were utilizing the Weinstein lot.

Win win for everyone – talk about timing, right? The stars must’ve aligned just right. The Kennett Library has started a fundraising campaign for their new building and looks forward to construction of a huge auditorium inside the new to-be-built library, and underground parking.

 

Chester County US1 – The Next Frontier

According to the CCEDC (Chester County Economic Development Council) a new CCEDC-led taskforce has been created to facilitate new business along the US1 corridor from Kennett Square and traveling Southbound to the Maryland line. This is our backyard folks. We are excited and anticipating the opportunities this poses for the Southern Chester County business community, not to mention the Commercial Real Estate biz in our local region.

Representatives from a dozen municipalities have come together to brainstorm and create a “draw” to this specific area of the Greater Delaware Valley. Within the next ten years, they estimate 3 million sf of commercial real estate to be in the project development stages.

The foremost hurdle they must bound is targeting the issues that hinder new growth and interest. Pinpointing those ball-and-chains is paramount before moving forward with new marketing and splash about Chester County. Key infrastructure challenges include public transportation, sewer and water utilities, affordable housing, land planning and the overall approval process. Without a coordinated effort by all key parties, we lose countless opportunities to other states. Jobs and revenue cast away for naught. Agencies working together, efficiencies in executing new utility extensions honed and innovative implementations by the local leadership would all be integral portions of this new “plan” as I see it.

We do have positive attributes going for us. Large thriving companies have made their home here. They include:

• Herrs Corporation
• Dansko Corporation
• Everfast
• Dole Mushroom
• Flowers Foods/Tasty Baking Oxford
• Genesis Health Care
• W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
• Neuchatel Chocolates dba Confiseurs, Inc.
• Leading Edge Composites, Inc.
• Pollert Plastic Systems
• Endo Pharmaceuticals

We look forward to new possibilities, challenges and successes for the Southern Chester County corridor and are very proud to be a part of the transformation of a new portal of flourishing business and industry.