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Getting to the Pointe
All images courtesy of Montchanin Builders, except where noted
Spread across 13 acres on the corner of East Cypress Street and Ways Lane, Kennett Pointe will feature 53 “new urbanist” townhouses and a 41,000-square-foot mixed-use building – all in a village-like setting that will be walking distance to the Kennett Borough.
By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer In 2016, Kennett Square Borough partnered with Kennett Township and Historic Kennett Square – now Kennett Collaborative – to create the Kennett Region Economic Development Study, a 234-page report that contained the broad strokes for the future of economic, labor, real estate and land development in the Kennett area.
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It was a huge project – one that was hammered out through several conversations with local and regional stakeholders – and one that specifically spelled out the vision for how seven locations in the township and borough could someday be re-imagined to meet the needs of a growing community. The report cast a very large net of focus that included the State and Cypress street corridors; Birch Street from Walnut Continued on Page 62
