King of Prussia, Pennsylvania King of Prussia .
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania King of Prussia Mall entrance between Neiman Marcus and Macy' King of Prussia Inn February 2017.jpg Old King of Prussia PA from Clockwise from top left: King of Prussia Mall, King of Prussia Inn, Airplane view of King of Prussia, and Old Swede Cemetery King of Prussia is positioned in Pennsylvania King of Prussia - King of Prussia King of Prussia (also referred to as KOP) is a census-designated place in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The improve took its name in the 18th century from a small-town tavern titled the King of Prussia Inn, which was titled after King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Like the rest of Montgomery County, King of Prussia continues to experience rapid development.
The biggest shopping mall in the United States in terms of leaseable space and size (nearly 3 million square feet), the King of Prussia Mall, is positioned here.
King of Prussia is considered to be an edge town/city of Philadelphia, consisting of large amounts of retail and office space situated at the convergence of four highways.
The eponymous King of Prussia Inn was originally constructed as a cottage in 1719 by the Welsh Quakers William and Janet Rees, framers of Reesville.
It was possibly retitled with respect to Benjamin Franklin's pro-American satirical essay "An Edict by the King of Prussia". At some point a wooden signboard of the inn depicted King Frederick II (Frederick the Great) of Prussia.
Its assembly as a undivided expressway would have caused the destruction of the King of Prussia Inn; however, historic preservationists managed to prevail upon the state of Pennsylvania to avoid this meaningful structure by building north and southbound lanes on either side of it.
The extensive suburban evolution that has taken place since the 1960s in King of Prussia has led urban planning scholars like Joel Garreau to label the region as an epitome of the edge town/city phenomenon, a situation where the most vibrant economic expansion and prosperity in a urbane region (in this case, Philadelphia) no longer occurs in the urban center, but rather at its periphery.
Before 1960, the Greater King of Prussia region was known for little more than being the place of Washington's winter respite in 1777-8 (see Valley Forge National Historical Park). The expansion in King of Prussia advanced around the convergence of four highways with the assembly of the King of Prussia Mall, a large company park, and housing developments. In the late 1990s, developer Dennis Maloomian acquired a golf course near the King of Prussia Mall and prepared a mixed-use residentiary and retail evolution that would include a town center for King of Prussia.
The retail region would be known as the King of Prussia Town Center.
By the 2000s, the company park in King of Prussia was outdated and was losing tenants.
Improvements were made to King of Prussia including landscaping the median of US 202, installing King of Prussia signs at the borders to the community, creating a shuttle service connecting the company park to close-by train stations, and changing the zoning laws to allow for apartements and townhouses to be constructed in the company park.
On August 18, 2016, the two sections of the King of Prussia Mall, The Plaza and The Court, were joined to problematic one large shopping mall. There is no incorporated town/city of King of Prussia, although the United States Postal Service office there has carried that name since 1837.
However, the Greater King of Prussia Area is often cited to include Bridgeport, parts of Wayne and Radnor Township, King Manor, as well as most of Gulph Mills.
The small-town fire department carries the King of Prussia name, whereas the police department and the school precinct carry the Upper Merion name.
King of Prussia is positioned 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Philadelphia.
Climate data for King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Fire station in King of Prussia Upper Merion Township governs the King of Prussia CDP.
Police services in King of Prussia is provided by the Upper Merion Township Police Department, which has 67 police officers. Fire protection in King of Prussia is provided by the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company. Satellite view of King of Prussia Mall The King of Prussia Mall interior.
King of Prussia has an unemployment rate of 4.30% and an annual job expansion of about 1.44% and 38% over the next ten years. A large portion of that comes from the King of Prussia Mall, the biggest shopping complex in the United States by shopping region square footage and the various employers in the area.
The King of Prussia Mall consists of over 400 stores, including a several luxury retailers, and 8 anchor stores.
The mall attracts 22 million visitors annually and produces $1.1 billion in annual sales. A large company park is positioned to the northwest of the King of Prussia Mall, with over 60 commercial and industrialized companies on 676 acres.
King of Prussia is home to the command posts of Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region I, which oversees 25 nuclear power reactors at 16 nuclear power plants in the Northeastern United States. 1 Lockheed Martin 3,568 King of Prussia 2 Glaxo - Smith - Kline 2,732 King of Prussia 3 Radial 991 King of Prussia 4 Pershing 853 King of Prussia 5 Upper Merion Area School District 691 King of Prussia 7 Yellowbook 648 King of Prussia 8 Shellville Services 530 King of Prussia 9 Nordstrom 486 King of Prussia In addition, primary commercial property owners in King of Prussia formed an organization in 2010 called the King of Prussia District (KOP-BID) that works to advancement the physical surrounding, market the area, and promote for zoning, tax and transit policies that will keep King of Prussia competing in the region. The Philadelphia Freedoms tennis team of World Team - Tennis played in King of Prussia in 2008 and 2009.
Whenever a tennis event was to occur, a temporary tennis stadium that seated 3,000 was constructed in the parking lot of the King of Prussia Mall.
Public school students in the King of Prussia region attend schools in the Upper Merion Area School District.
King of Prussia also has a Private school, Mother Teresa Regional Catholic School.
The Penn State Great Valley ground was once positioned in King of Prussia from 1963 to 1974 before relocating to Great Valley.
In 1982, the college opened up a new facility called Penn State King of Prussia Center.
King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company 9/11 Memorial King of Prussia is home to the King of Prussia Mall, which is the biggest mall in the United States in terms of leasable space.
The mall has a several luxury stores that have their only Philadelphia region locale in King of Prussia. The King of Prussia Mall is surrounded by a several big-box stores, restaurants, hotels, and other businesses, including a United Artists Theatres and an i - FLY indoor skydiving center. The King of Prussia Town Center is a lifestyle center that consists of Wegmans, multiple other big-box retailers, and a downtown region with dining, retail, and service establishments and a Town Square. The town center is part of the Village at Valley Forge, a 122-acre mixed-use evolution under assembly that consists of retail, apartements, townhouses, condominiums, office space, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's "Specialty Care and Surgery Center". King of Prussia is also the locale of the Valley Forge Casino Resort, which has over 500 hotel rooms, 600 slot machines, table games, seven restaurants, a spa, eveninglife, a meeting hall, and a cyclic poolside club called Valley Beach. Valley Forge National Historical Park, which consists of the site where General George Washington and the Continental Army made their encampment at Valley Forge amid the winter of 1777-78 in the American Revolutionary War, is positioned to the west of King of Prussia. King of Prussia is home to the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company 9/11 Memorial honoring the lives lost in the September 11 attacks.
The memorial, which was dedicated by the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company on the 10th anniversary of the attacks in 2011, consists of two steel beams recovered from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center in New York City.
The 9/11 Memorial is positioned adjoining to the King of Prussia Volunteer Fire Company station on Allendale Road athwart from the King of Prussia Mall. Children's Hospital facility in King of Prussia Einstein Healthcare Network operates an outpatient healthcare facility in King of Prussia. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's 135,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) "Specialty Care and Surgery Center" opened in King of Prussia in 2015. The Gulph Road facilities includes practices in sports medicine, oncology, and pediatric imagery.
US 202 northbound entering King of Prussia at Gulph Road King of Prussia has retained its part as an meaningful crossroads throughout United States history.
Today, four primary highways meet in or near the center of King of Prussia.
The Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) from Center City, Philadelphia, ends in King of Prussia at the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an east-west toll road athwart the southern portion of the state that heads west towards Harrisburg as part of I-76 and east around the northern suburbs of Philadelphia towards New Jersey as I-276.
Important small-town roads in King of Prussia include PA 23, which runs through King of Prussia between Valley Forge and Bridgeport along Valley Forge Road; Gulph Road, which runs from PA 23 near Valley Forge National Historical Park and heads southeast to junctions with I-76 and US 202 near the King of Prussia Mall before dominant to Gulph Mills; and Henderson Road, a north-south road through King of Prussia that intersects PA 23 and US 202 before ending at Gulph Road near an interchange with I-76. King of Prussia Transit Center at the King of Prussia Mall King of Prussia is well served by SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes at the King of Prussia Transit Center at the King of Prussia Mall, which serves six bus routes providing service to West Chester, the Exton Transportation Center at the Exton Square Mall, the Norristown Transportation Center, Phoenixville, the 69th Street Transportation Center, Center City Philadelphia, Chesterbrook, Valley Forge, and Limerick.
King of Prussia is also served by theconnector shuttle bus, which joins the King of Prussia company parks with SEPTA Regional Rail's Manayunk/Norristown Line at Norristown Transportation Center and SEPTA Regional Rail's Paoli/Thorndale Line at Wayne station amid peak weekday hours. The KOP-BID operates theconnector shuttle buses. Taxicab and limousine service in King of Prussia is provided by three companies. There are a several trails for hiking and bicycles that serve the King of Prussia area, some of which are under development.
The Schuylkill River Trail joins Valley Forge National Historical Park via Sullivan's Bridge athwart the Schuylkill River to the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, following the riverbank. When complete, the Schuylkill River Trail will follow the river between Pottsville and Philadelphia for a total length of about 130 miles (210 km). A section of the Chester Valley Trail passes through King of Prussia; when complete, the trail will run 22 miles (35 km) between Norristown, where it will connect to the Schuylkill River Trail, and Exton. Michael Morrison, King of Prussia, Images of America series (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005); https://tehistory.org/news/2012/news - 201206kpi.html.
See also Morrison, King of Prussia, 2005 (above).
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In what is now King of Prussia was established in Reesville in 1820, changing to Upper Merion in 1829, and becoming King of Prussia on 5 April 1837.
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