Somewhere, J. Howard Pew is smiling today.
The company founded by his father, and which he turned into the juggernaut called Sun Oil, is coming home. The Pew family started their oil business in Marcus Hook.
Sunoco announced yesterday they would move their corporate headquarters out of Center City Philadelphia and relocated to new digs in Newtown Square, on a tract known as the Ellis Preserve. Ironically, it's just down West Chester Pike from the former home of one of their old rivals, Atlantic Richfield Co., later known as Arco Chemical.
For years Sun's headquarters also called Delco home, with corporate offices in Radnor.
The move to Newtown Square also will affect employees at the company's Airport Administrative Center in Lester, Tinicum Township. They also will be moved to Newtown Square. In total the move affects 340 workers from Tinicum, and another 120 workers at the firm's Center City headquarters in Philadelphia.
It also comes just a year after the company shuttered its iconic Marcus Hook refinery.
Welcome home, Sunoco.
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