Median Age Download This Place. September, June and May are the most pleasant months in Norristown, while January and February are the least comfortable months. Pros Arts and culture Education Historic interest. Cons Low economic growth Some urban decay Violent crime. Best Places to Live in Norristown Rankings. Housing Market in Norristown. It's a good time to buy in Norristown. Home Appreciation is up Reviews for Norristown 2 Reviews. Read More. Agree Disagree Norristown Real Estate values are on the rise Zillow.
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Most Expensive Listings. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, Norristown searched desperately for a renaissance. Wikimedia Commons. A promising development for Norristown was the return of theater to downtown. The Centre Theater , which opened in an old Odd Fellows Hall at DeKalb Street in , served as a home for several theatrical troupes and arts groups.
The performing company Theatre Horizon moved to Norristown in The troupe first staged its productions at the Centre Theater but moved in to the old Verizon building at DeKalb. For nearly twenty years, the Centre Theater also served as home to the Iron Age Theater Company , which was founded in Philadelphia and moved to Norristown in Beginning in , the troupe staged its productions in various venues in Norristown and Philadelphia.
However, efforts to start a movie studio in the old Logan Square shopping center at Johnson Highway and Markley Street foundered after the state legislature reduced film tax credits in and a California studio that had been interested in the project pulled out.
Main Street. An extension of Lafayette Street was expected to improve access to Main Street and the riverfront area and provide Norristown with its own interchange on the nearby Pennsylvania Turnpike. Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro b. Michael D. Schaffer retired at the end of after more than thirty years as a writer and editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He has a doctorate in American History from Yale University. Bean, Theodore W. History of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, Vol. Coll, Jack and Brian Coll. Norristown Then and Now. Charleston, S. Goldstein, Sidney. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Heysham, Theodore.
Norristown: Norristown Herald Printers, Hunsicker, Clifton S. Huskey, Stan. Toll, Jean B. Montgomery County: The Second Years.
Tolle, Michael E. What Killed Downtown? Norristown, Pennsylvania, from Main Street to the Malls. Norristown: Michael Tolle, Additional Sources Currall, Steve.
Fioriglio, Tony. McChrystal, Laura. Inquirer , January 18, Puleo, Gary. Rotenberg, Carl. Shields, Jeff. Wanger, Irving P. Norristown: Historical Society of Montgomery County, The succeeding home rule charter has not been so published, but may be read at the municipal website. Some areas outside the municipality, in the surrounding townships, also have "Norristown, PA" mailing addresses. Norristown was incorporated as a borough in , its population then being about West Norriton, PA 1.
East Norriton, PA 1. King of Prussia, PA 1. Plymouth Meeting, PA 1. Trooper, PA 1. Conshohocken borough, PA 1. West Conshohocken borough, PA 1. Property values in Norristown, PA. Here: 8. Health care Construction Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations 6. Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations 7.
Other office and administrative support workers, including supervisors 7. Air pollution and air quality trends lower is better. City: City: 0. City: 7. Services: enclosed waiting area, public restrooms, public payphones, paid short-term parking, call for car rental service, call for taxi service, public transit connection. Services: ticket office, enclosed waiting area, public restrooms, public payphones, ATM, paid short-term parking, paid long-term parking, call for car rental service, call for taxi service, public transit connection.
Services: ticket office, fully wheelchair accessible, enclosed waiting area, public restrooms, public payphones, paid short-term parking, paid long-term parking, call for taxi service, public transit connection.
Local government website: www. Average household size: This borough: 2. Percentage of family households: This borough: Percentage of households with unmarried partners: This borough: 8. People in group quarters in Norristown in people in mental psychiatric hospitals or wards people in nursing homes 74 people in other noninstitutional group quarters 26 people in homes for the mentally ill 17 people in other group homes 17 people in religious group quarters 11 people in other nonhousehold living situations 6 people in other types of correctional institutions 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded.
Education Gini index Inequality in education Here: Number of grocery stores : Montgomery County : 1. Pennsylvania : 2. Number of supercenters and club stores : 4 This county : 0. State : 0. Number of convenience stores no gas : 90 This county : 1. Number of convenience stores with gas : Here : 1. State : 2.
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