Once known as The Delaware Market House, The Gladwyne Market House is in a building has been a market at the corner of Youngs Ford and Righters Mill roads in Gladwyne since the early 1900s. It could be longer. I’m just not sure.

Delaware Market originally was a beloved small gourmet grocery with prepared food as well in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, that closed in September 2009. It was like the Instacart of its day because you could get groceries delivered. Now mind you, that was a paid privilege and the market was pricey, but the quality was amazing of pretty much everything.

I do not know or remember when they started doing more prepared foods because when we ever use the market, we didn’t use it for prepared foods per se.

I actually went to the Delaware Market House the day it closed and that was around 2009.

I still have my Delaware Market House bag from that last day they were open and the last chance to shop. It was a really nice store run by really nice people. At the time those owners were successor owners to the original owners who had sold it to them. It was reported back then that economic downturns made it too expensive for them to stay open.

I never went back there after it closed as Delaware Market House, but it was resurrected thanks to a caring local resident. It then became the Gladwyne Market House or Gladwyne Market. So when it was resurrected at that point it became a slightly more modern iteration of what it had been. And there was catering and more prepared food, and it was still beloved by the community.

Well, we all recently learned if you ever follow things in Gladwyne that the market had its last day the other day forever.

Once again the property has been sold and the business closed.

According to a social media post I saw the new owners do not have a desire of just getting rid of the market building or the shops across the street which also sold from owners different than the market to these new people “RMR Property Holdings LLC.”

It seems that their goal is restoration, revitalization, and reimagining what could be. Again, saw it on a social media post.

But it sounds like it’s not an end per se in Gladwyne, but a new beginning. I am going sign off feeling hopeful.

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