Lansdale Named a "Classic Town" by DVRPC

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission inducted the borough of Lansdale into its Classic Towns program on Wednesday, as part of their second-annual Classic Towns Trolley Tour.

DVRPC Executive Director Barry Seymour presented Borough Manager Timothea Kirchner and communication coordinator Tracy Flynn with a plaque commemorating the borough's accomplishment.

"It [the program] puts us in with a group of great destinations and helps us improve our whole marketing approach to bring people in to Lansdale. It gives us all those best practices so we don't have to try to reinvent things ourselves, but, of course, we'll put our own touch on it. Lansdale's very unique," Kirchner said.

Seymour said that the Classic Town initiative serves as an umbrella program to help the member towns with both preservation and with marketing themselves as a destination.

"We found that each community marketing themselves wasn't enough, so we created this umbrella program," he said.

Lansdale joins Kennett Square, PA, and Bordentown, NJ, in the program this year.

The 21 Classic Towns are Ambler; Ardmore; Bordentown City, NJ; Bristol Borough; Collingswood, NJ; Germantown; Glassboro, NJ; Haddon Heights, NJ; Kennett Square; Lansdale; Lansdowne; Manayunk; Media; Merchantville; Moorestown, NJ; New Hope; Overbrook Farms; Phoenixville; Souderton/Telford; Wayne; and West Chester.

Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia is a DVRPC program that is dedicated to promoting growth and revitalization in older towns in the region. The program helps its members with planning and with marketing themselves as ideal places to live in, work in and visit.

The DVRPC is a metropolitan planning organization created in 1967 to bring local governments together to work on transportation, land use and environmental issues.