Premiums are set to jump by double digits for Pennsylvania residents and businesses that buy health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. State insurance
A prominent office in downtown York could be the next building to undergo a residential transformation. York-based developer Royal Square Development and Construction has put the Wolf Building at 14 W. Market St. under contract and convinced city zoning officials to allow up to 50 apartments in the four-story office. Existing limits would have allowed […]
Ashley Lacis has joined RKL LLP as practice leader of a new senior living financial planning and analysis practice, part of the Lancaster-based advisory firm’s senior living services consulting group. Lacis will oversee the development and delivery of financial planning and analysis services to continuing care retirement communities, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, memory care […]
In a speech last week in Pittsburgh, Gov. Josh Shapiro tried to stake out a middle ground in the raging national debate over regulating the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence. Advocates of stricter regulation warn unrestrained development could end in the destruction of humanity. Opponents say the fears are overblown and that onerous regulation […]
Column by Martin Fedorko Pennsylvania builds companies in places that don’t look like startup towns. A bakery on Market Street in York. A donkey and
Retail establishment Moon Bird Distilling opened this month in a restored building at 133 S. Hanover St. in Carlisle following a 12-year, $1 million-plus rehab project led by the husband-and-wife ownership team of Eric Storms and Kathleen Calvert. They transformed the once-dilapidated building, known as The McLellan Place, into a small-batch craft distillery, brick-oven pizzeria, […]
Despite ample headwinds from tariffs and higher oil prices, Central Pennsylvania has outperformed the nation this year when it comes to job growth, according to a new analysis by an economist from The PNC Financial Services Group. The question is whether the regional economy can withstand a period of rising interest rates ushered in yesterday […]
The company building data center campuses in Lancaster is locked in another battle over zoning. Affiliates of Virginia-based developer Chirisa Technology Parks are asking a Lancaster County court to quash an appeal by a group of more than two dozen city residents challenging what they see as a zoning decision for the company’s data center campus […]
Mike McKenna has been named vice president of strategic initiatives for the High Foundation, effective Sept. 8. He will oversee the Lancaster-based philanthropy’s priorities in the areas of the environment and affordable housing. McKenna, a veteran nonprofit leader, also has been named executive director of Lancaster Housing Works, a startup nonprofit backed by a $10 […]
After a years-long fight to stay open, Moon Dancer Vineyards & Winery has filed for bankruptcy protection. The business, based in Lower Windsor Township, York County, filed for Chapter 11, which gives it a chance to shed debt and reemerge as a going concern. Moon Dancer is pinning its hopes, in part, on overturning a […]