Jenkintown

PROUD OF ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Jenkintown residents cherish where they’ve been and look ahead to where they’re going! Jenkintown2035 is a comprehensive plan developed by the borough to boost the economy, sustainability, and transportation all while maintaining the qualities its residents love. This means revitalizing public spaces, enacting traffic calming infrastructure to promote healthy habits like walking and biking, preserving tree cover, and encouraging the installation of renewable sources of energy for individualism properties. Rather than cutting down and starting from scratch, Jenkintown has committed to maintaining its affordability, walkability, diversity, and character for the benefit of its current and future residents.

A DESIRABLE LOCATION, 11 MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA

The walkability score of Jenkintown is an impressive 90/100, simultaneously curating the small town feel and boosting the local economy, as residents can accomplish most of their regular shopping within the borough limits. When it is time to visit the city, the train is a fast and inexpensive option for travel into Center City Philadelphia. Plans have been drawn for the Jenkintown-Wyncote train station to be rebuilt in the name of accessibility including high-level platforms, a new pedestrian overpass above the tracks, and covered walkways, making it easier for those with disabilities, small children, and the elderly to navigate the regional rail.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Warm weather in Jenkintown means the Summer Music Series! May to September, Jenkintown township hosts free live music events in the Town Square. Preserving arts and culture is important in Jenkintown, and the borough is known for its intricate architecture dating back to the town’s founding in the 19th century. This includes the Jenkintown Hiway Theatre, built in 1917 and modernly revitalized to accommodate digital projectors, which screens primarily independent, art house, and foreign films. A half-mile outside of the borough is Abington Art Center at Alverthorpe Manor, a community center focused on music, drawing, painting, oil, ceramics, metals, sewing, embroidery, pottery, and jewelry classes.

“J-TOWN” HAS IT ALL, COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!