Across the street from the hardware store, where the outdoor display of riding lawn mowers stretches almost two blocks, there’s now a coffee roastery and espresso bar. Meagher has watched a work-boot shop become an art gallery and a dilapidated pharmacy morph into a craft brewery. (He’s actually sold most of the buildings they’re happening in.) Out on Main Street, Honesdale’s primary commercial artery, where American flags hang on nearly every block and the sensible square brick buildings never exceed three stories, once-empty storefronts are filling back up. But perhaps you should.Īs a co-owner of RE/MAX Wayne - arguably the biggest commercial and residential real estate firm in this tiny town of just 4,300 - Meagher has had a front-row seat to a lot of Honesdale’s changes lately. When you think of somewhere like Honesdale - you know, rural small-town America - you probably don’t think of hustle and bustle, of people zipping around in preparation for buzzy loft openings. It’s the sort of style you’d expect to see in Fishtown, or Williamsburg, or Silver Lake - anywhere, really, other than where we actually are: Honesdale, Pennsylvania, a tiny whistle-stop - just four square miles - nestled in a woodsy Poconos valley in the northeastern tip of the state, about two and a half hours from both Philly and New York.
Designed by local artist Samuelle Greene, who’s worked on installations for the likes of Bergdorf Goodman and the Guggenheim, the spaces are bona fide Instagram catnip: Cool geometric murals cover the floors, and graphic wallpaper is splashed behind the beds. He’s spent the better part of this bright August morning winding me through Wonder, the complex of trendy Airbnb-style lofts he’s opening in a month.
Wearing gray jeans and a crisp paisley button-down, with a hint of salt-and-pepper stubble washed across his broad face, he’s dressed for a day of getting things done.
He’s being nice about it - really, really nice - but I can tell Tim Meagher is ready to wrap up our time together. Rural Northeast Pennsylvania town of Honesdale.
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