About
The Borough of Phoenixville was incorporated in 1849. Phoenixville is a growing community of over 16,000 people, situated twenty-five miles northwest of Philadelphia, in the northeast corner of Chester County. Phoenixville sits at the juncture of the French Creek and the Schuylkill River and is only four miles north of Valley Forge National Park. Phoenixville grew, developed and prospered because of its geography and the production of iron and steel products. More
Philadelphia Area Idiotarod to be held July 4th
Phoenixville's Fourth of July celebration will feature a new race component with the addition of the Philadelphia Area Idiotarod. The Idiotarod is a take off on the 1,000 mile Iditarod dog sled race.
The Idiotarod features shopping carts sometimes modified for the team. Four "idiot" team members are tied to the cart, run along side of the cart and a "musher" guides the cart from the back. The race will have no course. There will be a number of stations located through the south side where the teams will be required to check-in. There will be special judges located in the race area who may disqualify teams that do not maintain continual shopping cart connection throughout the race. The team that completes the course in the best time without being disqualified or missing a station is the winner. The original race was run in San Francisco in 1994 and races are run in New York, Phoenix, Seattle and Toronto.
2009 Phoenixville Summer Street Music Festival
For 2009, the Phoenixville Summer Street Music Festival will feature live music on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons. Click here to view the list of scheduled artists.
Marketing Info for Main Streets Festival
Three premier Main Streets of the Brandywine Valley -- West Chester, Kennett Square and Phoenixville -- are
offering three days of block parties and events May 15, 16 and 17. It is called the Towns & Main Streets of the
Brandywine Festival.
In downtown Phoenixville, all shops and restaurants are encouraged to offer specials for browsers and/or activities for visitors. This program is funded by the Chester County Conference & Visitors Bureau (CVB) and downtown members of the CVB are highlighted in the promotional materials.
One of the marketing items will be a tab published on May 14 that will be in the Daily Local News, The Phoenix, and The Kennett Paper with a circulation of 32,000. The ad deadline is May 6 so get your ad in as soon as possible. See the tab flyer at Main Streets TAB Information Sheet PDF.
Citizens for the Train
"Citizens for the Train" was established through the efforts of the Main Street Community Development Corporation. The corporation reviewed the current public transportation linking Phoenixville with the other parts of Chester County. It was determined that there was a need to increase the level of transportation service to enable the citizens to more connect with Chester County.
The initial idea was to connect underutilized networks of transportation, reviewing railroad right of ways and lines currently active for freight. Through a series of meetings with government, planning and practitioners it was determined there was little interest by any existing group to take the lead in this kind of rail project. It appeared that there was great popular interest for rail service connecting to the R-5.