PAUL SELIGSON

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Paul Seligson is a native Californian.  After college he embarked on a hotel school in Switzerland. It was there he became professionally trained and found his wife. Returning to the United States , they lived in 16 cities as Paul worked for different hotel companies specializing in opening luxury properties. Paul was hired to open The Rittenhouse Hotel in 1988 which brought him to Philadelphia and he and his wife selected Newtown Square to settle in with their family. In 1992, Paul  joined RockResorts as VP Operations overseeing two Caribbean and two Hawaiian properties.  Always interested in entrepreneurism, Paul embarked on developing and owning two businesses. Out of this, he launched both of his sons in their successful professional careers. He and his wife moved to their present renovated Mill House on Crum Creek 26 years ago.

Paul became civically involved joining the EAC in 2003 and volunteered with the Special Olympics in 2006. From there, he volunteered as a Math tutor with Gesu School behind St Joe’s Prep and Northern School for Children in Manyunk once a week. Eventually Paul became Chairman of EAC  which led him to introduce the Hanging Basket Program 15 years ago. After he mastered the hardware and growing patterns, the program  became a Branding of sorts for Newtown Square. From there he developed a separate committee Newtown Square in Bloom, a 501(c)3 which took care of florals at Welcome Signs, Bus Stops, Hanging Baskets and for a time the center of St Albans Circle.

Over time Paul became a member and Chairman of the Township Parks & Recreation Committee and Board Member of the Newtown Square Business Association in 2009 leading to President of the Business Association in 2018. Paul is currently Vice President of the Business Association. He was part of the team spearheading the idea of the banner program“ Shop the Square” and launching the Directory / Brochure listing all the members in a handy reference guide.

Newtown Square joined membership with the national organization America in Bloom in 2014. The Judges suggested in 2015 that  a renaming occur of the beautification efforts of the committee to  Newtown Square in Bloom which we accomplished in 2016.  

Besides planting trees every Arbor Day while leading the EAC, in 2022, Newtown Square in Bloom received generous funding from Boiron to plant 24 street trees in open spaces along 252 North & South. Paul went door to door asking landowners permission to locate trees on their property. This past year Paul received enough funding to plant 35 Trees & 40 Shrubs / Bushes along Goshen Walking trail where many Ash trees had succumbed to disease.

Paul is still involved and has been Coaching Tennis for Special Olympics for the past 13 years.  Paul plays with a Senior Mens group during warm months at the Delaware County Community College nearly daily and as of this year leads the 2025 Marple Newtown Varsity and JV Tennis teams as Coach. This year he  is co director of Circle at Sundown Community Street Party planned for May 18  and a Trustee of the Newtown Public Library.

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