​Looking Ahead 2025: New Businesses Coming To Newtown

NEWTOWN, PA — Newtown will be welcoming a number of new businesses in 2025, including the community’s first Wawa convenience store and gas station.

Ground was broken in 2024 for the new 5,500 square foot super Wawa convenience store and gas station at the intersection of Lower Silver Lake Road and the Newtown Bypass. The new store is expected to open sometime this year.

Another new addition to the town will be the arrival of the Picklr at the Newtown Shopping Center. The 30,000-square-foot indoor pickleball venue is expected to open this month at the former Bed, Bath and Beyond storefront.

This will be the first Pennsylvania location for the Utah-based company. The Newtown location will boast 11 indoor courts, a pro shop, professional-grade surfacing, private event area, locker rooms, and showers.

The Picklr will be opening this month at the Newtown Shopping Center. (Jeff Werner/Patch)

The Picklr is promising to bring "an unparalleled pickleball experience" to local players when it celebrates its grand opening this month.

A handful of new restaurants and eateries have also received approval to open in Newtown Township including a new Indian restaurant, a chicken eatery and an Eastern European restaurant.

Amma’s South India Cuisine is expected to open its doors this year at Goodnoe Corner inside the former Zoe’s Kitchen at 2820 North Sycamore Street.

Amma’s South India Cuisine has built a large following and a reputation for good food at its locations in University City, Center City and in Voorhees, New Jersey.

The restaurant, owned and operated by Sathish Varadhan, specializes in homestyle cooking from the southern regions of India and is named “Amma’s” after the Tamil word meaning “mother.”

After immigrating to the United States in 2010, Varadhan opened his first restaurant in Voorhees, New Jersey. He has since opened locations in Center City and University City across the river in Philadelphia.

Amma's South India Cuisine will be opening soon at Goodnoe Corner. (Jeff Werner/Patch)

Amma’s menu features innovative dishes based on centuries-old South India culinary traditions. The chefs use fresh produce, all-natural ingredients, and freshly ground spices, to create food that is like veetu sapadu (homemade).

Two other eateries will also be opening at the nearby Village at Newtown Shopping Center.

Flourish Cafe, which has a location at the nearby Village Shires Shopping Center on Buck Road in Northampton Township, received conditional use approval in 2024 from Newtown Township to open at the village.

The “Eastern European Style” restaurant would occupy approximately 3,210 square feet inside the former KO Korean Restaurant next to the Capital Grille.

In just three short years, Flourish has built a five-star reputation for its made-from-scratch
Eastern European food and baked goods.

The Flourish Cafe at the Village Shires Shopping Center on Buck Road in Northampton Township. (Jeff Werner/Patch)

Serving French, Ukrainian, Russian and Italian-made dishes, the cafe is known for its pumpkin soup, syrniki (fried Eastern Slavic curd cheese pancakes), and its “must try” potato pancakes.

The cafe serves an extensive breakfast menu featuring fresh fruit crepes, potato pancakes, waffles, oatmeal porridge, and syrniki (fried Eastern Slavic curd cheese pancakes).

A sampling of its dinner menu ranges from salmon steak, mozzarella stuffed chicken breast and signature rigatoni to Kyiv-style chicken, rabbit stew, and Bronzino steak. The BYOB cafe also offers an extensive selection of appetizers, soups, salads and desserts.

Another eatery waiting in the wings is Love & Honey Fried Chicken.

In 2024, Newtown Township granted conditional use approval for the chicken takeout business to open at the Village.

The shop would be among the first suburban franchise locations of Philadelphia’s Love & Honey Fried Chicken in Fishtown.

The new eatery will predominantly be a call in and takeout service although there will be a limited amount of indoor seating provided.

Rated as the best fried chicken restaurant in Philadelphia in 2018, the eatery is known for its hand breaded fried chicken sandwiches, its chicken tenders, chicken and waffles, 10 pack of dark meat, drumsticks, thighs, tater tots, wings, cornbread muffins, pimento cheese dip, and house made sauces.