Ken Weinstein

About Ken Weinstein

Ken is an active entrepreneur and real estate developer in the Philadelphia area. He serves as President of Philly Office Retail, which has renovated and restored more than 350 vacant and deteriorated commercial and residential units in the Philadelphia region during the past 30+ years. Philly Office Retail currently owns and manages more than square feet of commercial and residential space in the Philadelphia region. Ken founded and operated Cresheim Cottage Cafe from 1996 until 2004, Trolley Car Diner, Deli and Ice Cream Shoppe in Mt. Airy from and Trolley Car Cafe in East Falls from 20••••21. Previously, Ken served as Chief of Staff for Philadelphia City Councilwoman Happy Fernandez from 19••••95 and President of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC), as a Mayoral appointee, and currently serves as Chair of the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District which he co-founded in 2007. Ken is Founder of the Trolley Car Teacher’s Fund, which contributes in small grants to public school teachers, Trolley Car Table Tennis Club, the only full time table tennis club in the Philadelphia area and Jumpstart Germantown/Jumpstart Philly, which mentors, networks and provides funding to aspiring real estate developers. Ken was an Organizer/Board Member of Valley Green Bank for 8 years until it was sold to Univest Bank in January 2015.

Experience

1. Founder

   Jumpstart Germantown

   Jan 2015 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  Masters

  1990 — 1991

• University of Delaware

  BA

  1981 — 1985