Shopping mall idea back for Route 202
It’s back in the news. The Philadelphia Business Journal reported that a New Jersey firm — Retail Sites— has purchased the 25-plus-acre vacant lot at Route 202 and Ridge Road across from Olde Ridge Village and wants to act on the approved shopping center development.
According to that report, Retail Sites is buying the property which will have some sit-down and fast-food restaurants as well as retail shops. The name would be Shoppes at Concord.
Chadds Ford Live contacted Concord Township but officials there said they didn’t have enough information to comment. Retail Sites already has two shopping centers in Delaware County, Shoppes at Brookhaven and Shoppes at Upper Providence.
The property is in Concord Township, but it borders Chadds Ford Township. Concord approved the development in October of 2008 and reaffirmed approval for Pettinaro in 2014. There had been several lawsuits between Chadds Ford, Concord, and Pettinaro, but the approval stood. The original plan, as approved, called for 21 retail pads, including three for restaurants and a large 58,000-square-foot retail pad for an anchor store.
Part of the plan included widening Ridge Road to three lanes in each direction for approximately one-quarter mile. from its intersection with Route 202 to the Chadds Ford border.
However, Pettinaro took no action on the development and, in 2021, leased the property for the farming of soybeans and wheat for two years. Nothing has been done with the site since.
Chadds Ford Live will follow up on this as more information becomes available.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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