Business in York County has been growing for Lancaster County-based L.H. Brubaker Appliances & Water Treatment. The company is now planning its first retail branch there.
Tom Blefko has been named executive director of the Lancaster County Association of Realtors, effective April 7. He succeeds Michael Berk, who left in November to lead Longleaf Pine Realtors, a regional real estate trade group in southeastern North Carolina. Blefko worked most recently for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Homesale Realty. He managed five Lancaster County offices for the […]
A Pennsylvania startup that aspires to make gasoline from wood is celebrating a critical milestone. A third-party engineering firm has validated the system that Tioga County-based Woodland Biomass Innovations plans to use in its pilot plant, according to company co-founder and CEO, Luca Pandolfi. That allows the company to move into a final engineering and design stage […]
Childcare workers in Pennsylvania are in line for larger bonuses than initially projected. Last year, when the Shapiro administration unveiled a $25 million program designed to help retain and recruit people in the historically low-paid industry, officials forecast bonuses of about $450 per worker. Based on the number of applicants to the program, workers can […]
State lawmakers and tax collectors are pitching a new program designed to help businesses catch up on delinquent sales taxes. Under the program, eligible businesses would be required, for at least a year, to use software that automatically files returns and remits sales taxes to the state. The idea builds on a pilot program tested […]
A former office building at 1171 S. Cameron St. in Harrisburg could soon become a self-storage facility. Building owner Storage Five Harrisburg LLC has filed land development plans calling for conversion of the roughly 118,000-square-foot building into a self-storage facility with about 950 units. The construction work is expected to cost about $6.7 million, according to a resolution […]
Jonestown Realty Partners II LLC paid $1 million for a roughly 4,000-square-foot building at 49 Prince St. in Harrisburg, according to county deed records. Jessica Gasper and Arthur Campbell of Campbell Commercial Partners represented the seller, identified in deed records as Aspire Realty Group LLC. The investment property is leased by AFC Urgent Care. Mount […]
Victor Fields has been named president and CEO of Highmark Wholecare, a division of Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark. Effective June 1, Fields will succeed Ellen Duffield, who has led the division since 2021. Highmark Wholecare covers about 320,000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in Pennsylvania. Fields worked most recently as health plan CEO for UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Minnesota, […]
York-based developer Peel & Co. is transforming a former newspaper building at 9 E. Philadelphia St. in downtown York into a nearly 30,000-square-foot mixed use building with apartments, parking and retail space. The conversion is expected to wrap up by the end of this year, according to Eric Peel, managing member of Peel & Co. […]
A former Nationwide office in suburban Harrisburg sold for nearly $7.5 million, according to Jason Grace, CEO and managing principal of Landmark Commercial Realty in Camp Hill. He and Landmark president Michael Curran negotiated the deal directly between buyer and seller, and they represented the seller, a partnership headed by Philadelphia-area developer Eli Kahn. Kahn paid $5.5 million for the […]