Delaware County Father Is Opening Coffee Shop To Create Jobs For People With Disabilities

CBS Philadelphia

January 16, 2026

A new café opening soon in Glen Mills, Delaware County, is giving people with disabilities a place to work, grow and thrive.

Ryan's Rise Up Café, located on Evergreen Drive in the Concordville Town Center, near U.S. 322, is the vision of Concord Township father of four Jim Vail. He said he sold his construction company to focus full-time on creating a space where his 20-year-old son, Ryan Vail, could work and where others with disabilities could have the same opportunity.

"There's a stigma that's been going back for years now that people with disabilities really have limitations," Jim Vail said. "Ryan has Down syndrome, and I see what he can offer. He has the ability to do so much more than what this stigma will allow you to think."

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