Sterling Investors LLC purchased a 1,960 square-foot property at 700 S. 26th St. in Penbrook. The office is slated to open Oct. 1 as The
Kristen Hartman and Gloria Shatto have joined the Lancaster office of Barley Snyder as members of the law firm’s trust and estates practice group.Hartman worked most recently as chief fiduciary officer for Lancaster-based Fulton Private Bank. Before that, she worked for a regional law firm in estate planning, estate administration, and charitable and elder law. […]
Shilvosky Buffaloe has been named director of strategic development and finance for the York County Economic Alliance, a new role for the nonprofit. Buffaloe worked most recently as a development officer for the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency but has extensive experience in York.He was head of the city’s economic development department from 2013 to 2019, capping […]
A Cumberland County agency has taken another step toward the purchase of a Carlisle factory that shut down last year.The Real Estate Collaborative LLC, a subsidiary of the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corp., has struck a tentative agreement to buy the Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Co. site at 600 E. High St. in the Cumberland County borough.No price was […]
Regional real estate firm Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Homesale Realty has scooped up Sailhamer Realty, an eight-person firm in Shippensburg. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Sailhamer was headed by John Dyson, a son-in-law of the firm’s original founders.The firm’s Shippensburg office will close, and Dyson and the rest of the Sailhamer team will work out of Berkshire’s […]
Andrew Lewis, a former state representative and business owner, has been named president and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation, a conservative think tank in Harrisburg. He succeeds Charles Mitchell, who has led the organization since 2016.Lewis, a Republican, represented portions of Dauphin and Lebanon counties from 2018 to 2022 before deciding not to run again.An […]
The virtual-assistant business has been a source of real-world growth for Zirtual, a portfolio company of Lancaster-based investment firm PennSpring Capital.Zirtual closed Friday on the acquisition of Double, a virtual-assistant business based in Brooklyn, New York. It’s the third deal this year for Zirtual since it was acquired by PennSpring in December.People hire virtual assistants to help manage their calendars, […]
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg is planning a birthday celebration this week designed to reintroduce the 25-year-old center to the community.The celebration kicks off Monday Sept. 9 with a private lunch for the center’s founding board and staff members, as well as other community leaders who helped bring Whitaker to Harrisburg.Tuesday will bring […]
A Harrisburg-area construction equipment dealership is extending its footprint southward through the acquisition of a company with offices in Maryland and Virginia.Stephenson Equipment Inc. said last week it purchased Valley Supply & Equipment, a business founded in 1982 by Howard Klein and last owned by his two sons, Adam and Brandon.Terms of the transaction were not […]
Al Patel has been named chief marketing officer at West Shore Home, a Mechanicsburg-based home improvement company.Patel most recently led marketing teams at Trugreen, and Culligan International. He also has led brand marketing efforts at MillerCoors and Procter and Gamble. At West Shore Home, Patel will focus on strengthening the brand, modernizing the consumer and digital experience, and growing the company’s customer […]
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