After some wrangling, the Radnor Board of Commissioners approved a new 25-year lease with the Willows Park Preserve (WPP), a nonprofit group that plans to renovate the more than 100-year-old mansion in the park. There is a non-disturbance clause that construction will not bother neighboring residents from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. The group is restricted to 25 major private events a year at the mansion. Those events do not extend beyond the red line drawn around the mansion.
If the WPP has a community program, it must work with the director of community programing to make sure there is nothing else going on and the park will not be closed. WPP President Tish Long said the renovated Willows mansion will have a dedicated public space with restrooms that will be open during park hours. Now that the WPP has secured the township approval of the lease amendments, they are moving ahead on fundraising efforts and phase one of construction. The first order of business will be to make the mansion watertight by replacing the roof and windows, among other exterior projects. That work will begin in the next six months.
Source: Main Line Suburban Life; 7/27/2019