RKL LLP, an accounting and professional services firm based in Lancaster, has added five people to its partnership group: Brandon Adams, Michael Andrews, Kirsten Deeds,
Commonwealth Court has tossed out state rules requiring licensing of companies manufacturing e-cigarettes and the liquids used in them.The court found that the rules gave the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue too much discretion in deciding how they would be enforced.The decision came Friday in the context of a lawsuit filed by East Coast Vapor, a Harrisburg-based […]
After closing last year, a former West Shore factory for The AMES Companies has been sold.An affiliate of York-based Kinsley Properties paid $18 million for the plant at 465 Railroad Ave. in Hampden Township, according to Gerry Blinebury, a broker with real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. Cushman & Wakefield is listing the 397,000 square-foot building for lease on behalf of Kinsley Properties, […]
Laura Bailey Gallagher has been named senior counsel attorney at Saxton & Stump, a law firm based in Lancaster.Gallagher is an employment lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience serving local and national clients. She counsels business leaders and HR professionals on complicated legal issues of workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability, employment contracts, unions, unfair […]
Delta Airport Consultants leased the first floor at 17 W. High S. in Carlisle. Delta, which focuses on planning, design, construction administration and management of airport infrastructure, plans to use the space as a local headquarters for its engineering team. Pamela E. Fisher of NAI CIR represented the landlord in the transaction.DolgenCorp LLC leased 14,584 […]
A California-based partnership called Hayward Center LLC paid $2.926 million for a former furniture store converted to a doctor’s office in West Manchester Township, York County. The seller was Utah-based York MD LLC, which paid $1.875 million for the property at 1550 Rodney Road in November 2023, according to county deed records.The property was marketed on behalf of […]
Reilly Noetzel has been named a partner at Lancaster law firm Barley Snyder effective Jan. 1. Noetzel is a member of the firm’s real estate practice group and of its construction, environment, land use and municipal industry groups. He joined the law firm in 2017 after a stint in the state attorney general’s office.He earned a law […]
High interest rates hampered mergers and acquisitions for much of 2024, as did uncertainty over the outcome of the presidential election.Nonetheless, Central Pennsylvania saw plenty of dealmaking over the last year.The roundup below includes the usual suspects like banks and insurance brokerages, but it also features companies that make hammocks, home runs and virtual-reality games. January: […]
If there’s no fix by this summer, flawed power market rules threaten to saddle Pennsylvania homes and businesses with billions of dollars in extra costs for electricity, according to a regulatory complaint lodged this week by Gov. Josh Shapiro.The complaint, filed with federal energy regulators, seeks to change certain rules governing the cost of power […]
Is it fraud or a failing business?That was one of the questions hanging over a court hearing held yesterday morning to consider contempt charges against Paramount Management Group, a Lancaster-based ATM network being sued by its investors.The investors want Paramount held in contempt for its alleged failure to abide by a court order issued earlier this month.Under […]
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