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Health Care

Senior-living organizations to merge

Garden Spot Communites, a New Holland-based senior-living provider, is extending its footprint into the Philadelphia suburbs.The nonprofit has agreed to affiliate with Frederick Living, a senior-living

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Education

State schools, Google partner on credentialing

Millersville, Shippensburg and several other state-sponsored universities are partnering with Google to offer professional certificates in fields such as cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and project management.Courses leading to the so-called Google Career Certificates will be available to both students and non-students interested in burnishing their resumes. Students will be able to earn the certificates — and gain […]

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Entrepreneurship

Hotel company Hersha poised to go private

A publicly traded hotel company founded in Harrisburg is going private in a deal valued at roughly $1.4 billion.Hersha Hospitality Trust, now based in Philadelphia, has agreed to be acquired by KSL Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm that specializes in travel and leisure businesses. Under the deal, KSL is paying $10 per share for […]

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Banking/Finance

Alleged bank fraud hits local, national targets

State authorities on Friday disclosed what they say was a widespread bank-fraud operation in Central Pennsylvania that drained nearly $2 million from the accounts of victims.Two men have been arrested in connection with the fraud but a criminal complaint lists nine other people. More charges are expected, according to the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office, which […]

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Economy

Effort aims to diversity city contracting

The city of Harrisburg spent about $150 million on contracts for goods and services between 2017 and 2021.Slightly more than 7% of the total went to Black-, women- veteran-, and other minority-owned contractors, according to estimates in a study published last fall on contracting disparities in Pennsylvania’s capital. If spending had been in line with the […]

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Entrepreneurship

Group pitches region as health-tech hub

Can Central Pennsylvania become a hub for innovations in telemedicine and other health care technologies?That’s the hope of a new consortium coming together to craft a plan for getting us there. The group includes a who’s who of local economic development agencies, health systems, colleges and private-sector players, including Lancaster-based Emerald Asset Management and Siemens Medical Solutions USA. But […]

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Manufacturing

Agency mulls deal for shuttered factory

A subsidiary of the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corp. is exploring an acquisition of a recently shuttered Carlisle factory.The subsidiary, called the Real Estate Collaborative LLC, has signed a letter of intent to buy the plant formerly operated by The Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Co. at 800 E. High St. in the Cumberland County borough. But first, the […]

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Banking/Finance

Brokerage buys capital-area advisory firm

A Harrisburg-area financial advisory has joined the wave of consolidation washing over the industry.Comprehensive Financial Associates, based in Susquehanna Township, has been acquired by insurance and benefits brokerage AssuredPartners, according to a press release from Wise Rhino Group, the M&A firm that advised Comprehensive Financial. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. But it also includes an […]

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Marketing

Merger unites Lancaster marketing firms

Two Lancaster-based digital marketing agencies have come together as one. But for now, they are continuing to operate under their existing names.The firms are YDOP and WTM Digital, which offer similar services but for different clients. YDOP, which trademarked the term “near-user marketing,” works primarily with companies around ther U.S. seeking locally focused digital marketing. WTM Digital, formerly […]

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Construction

Kinsley, Royal Square partner on $7M apartment project

Kinsley Properties and Royal Square Development & Construction have formed a joint venture to convert a vacant office building in downtown York into a 43-unit apartment.The 38,000 square-foot building is the former Fox Bakery at 204 N. George St., not far from WellSpan Park.  Construction on the $7 million project began this week and is expected to wrap up […]

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