The Plymouth Square Shopping Center just off Chemical Road is having what you might call a moment, and not the good kind if you were partial to fried chicken sandwiches. Federal Donuts & Chicken has closed its Conshohocken location, joining the shuttered Five Guys as a vacancy waiting for new tenants. Well, not waiting long.
NAYA, the Middle Eastern fast-casual chain, is taking the old Five Guys space and is already hiring. And per a report from the Philadelphia Business Journal picked up by MoreThanTheCurve, New York smash burger operation 7th Street Burger has signed a lease at the same shopping center. So the burger throne is not vacant, it just changed monarchs.
For families who plot weeknight dinners around what is within a five-minute drive, this is the sort of turnover worth tracking. Fewer fried chicken options, more shawarma, and a fresh smash burger contender headed our way. The center is looking less like a tired strip and more like a small food court experiment, which is either exciting or exhausting depending on how many times you have already explained to a seven-year-old that yes, we tried a new place last week.