Plan caption: Uptown Worthington

On August 21 NPR reported on a steel mill that is being converted to a town center at the interestion of state routes 29 and 202 in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The 100-acre Uptown Worthington, now under construction, is planned to  include 745,000 square feet of retail, 185,000 square feet of office space, 753 residential units, and 6,300 parking spaces. The plan also includes stand-alone, conventional big box stores — one a Target, according to NPR. The core of the plan is walkable mixed use. The project is also adjacent to — an walkable to — the Vanguard headquarters. Host Steve Inskeep of NPR described Uptown Worthington as “a different Chester County,” a sign of the kind of development that could prevail in the next decade. O’Neill Properties of King of Prussia is the developer and the plan is by Antunovich Associates of Chicago.