https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1515-visit-phandalin-d-ds-most-popular-starter-town
Learn about the upcoming Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk book and Phandalin, the beloved D&D starter town at the center of the adventure!
This is really cool. We found the Lost Mines to be a really good starter pack (though we never finished it), and the starter set that replaced it was lackluster and incredibly generic in comparison. I thought the description that the Lost Mines included for Phandalin and the people living in it was great, and it's really cool that they're expanding on it.
When we started over and took up another campaign, I missed the "small" feeling of Phandalin. A lot of the published stories felt like we would be diving into too much of the Really Important Places too fast, so I hope that they keep Phandalin feeling like a small, out of the way starting point.