Aimee Deraco hesitated when she was first approached about becoming chief executive of Brubaker Inc., a family-owned contractor in Lancaster County that was mulling a
Eduardo Santos has been named vice president of enterprise growth strategy and insights at PSECU, a Harrisburg-based credit union.Santos will oversee strategy, marketing analytics, experience analytics, market intelligence and deposit strategy in a bid to better understand the preferences of PSECU members and align growth efforts with what drives value.Santos, who has more than 20 […]
Baüen Unlimited, a Lancaster County company overseeing a stable of construction firms, has promoted three executives.Samuel Ebersol has been named CEO of Baüen, succeeding Ed Ferderbar. Ferderbar had led the company since 2021.Ebersol who has more than 30 years of experience in construction and manufacturing, was most recently general manager of Mid-Atlantic Timberframes, one of […]
Karen Kinslow has been named vice president of Pennsylvania operations for FirstEnergy, which has more than 2 million customers in the state. It is a mew position for the Ohio-based utility.She will oversee electricity delivery to customers and lead strategies designed to improve the customer experience, and she will report to John Hawkins, president of […]
The dust is still settling on the flurry of announcements for massive data and energy projects proposed this week for Pennsylvania. Actual dust could soon start flying on one of those projects — a $6 billion data center investment in Lancaster.The city has issued demolition permits for the first phase of the project, according to city […]
The owner of a former Catholic school in Harrisburg has three more months to avoid a forced sale of the property.A sheriff’s sale of the former Bishop McDevitt High School was scheduled for this morning. But according to a notice from the Dauphin County sheriff’s office, the sale has been pushed back to Oct. 16.Efforts to […]
Harristown Enterprises, Select Capital Commercial Properties and Garden Spot Communities are teaming up to convert a former office building in downtown Harrisburg into apartments for people over 55. The roughly $10 million project aims to bring 39 apartments to the eight-story building, the former Veterans’ Building at 112 Market St.Harristown, a nonprofit developer based in Harrisburg, has been […]
Less than a month after deciding to close a lumber operation in northwestern Pennsylvania, Weaber Inc. is consolidating operations in Lebanon County and laying off 145 workers.The lumber company is vacating a distribution center at 25 Keystone Drive in South Annville Township and shifting work to its headquarters location at 1231 Mount Wilson Road, also in […]
Major tech companies yesterday disclosed billions of dollars in new investment in Central Pennsylvania, though some key details remain to be filled in.Data center giant CoreWeave said it plans to sink $6 billion into developing a data center in Lancaster in partnership with a company that recently acquired two former printing plants in the city. A New Jersey-based […]
Kevin Acklin has joined Stevens & Lee as a shareholder as part of the Reading-based law firm’s expansion into Pittsburgh. Acklin, who worked previously as president of business operations for the Pittsburgh Penguins, is the firm’s first attorney fully based in the Steel City, where parent company The Stevens & Lee Companies opened an office earlier this […]
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