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Giant in deal to buy Bedford County grocery stores

Carlisle-based The Giant Co. said yesterday it agreed to buy Everett Foodliner and Saxton Market, a pair of Bedford County grocery stores owned by brothers Bob and Joe Appleby. Giant is buying the real estate and related grocery and fuel business assets for what will become its first stores in the county. Terms of the transaction, expected to close […]

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Armstrong World snaps up specialty fabricator

Building products manufacturer Armstrong World Industries Inc. said yesterday that it acquired a Chicago-based company called Eventscape Inc., which specializes in designing, making and installing complex architectural features. Terms of the transaction — which continues a multiyear string of deals for Armstrong — were not disclosed. Based in Toronto and New York City, Eventscape employs 150 […]

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Foundation leader steps up as grantmaking capacity swells

Over the last three years, Robin Stauffer has overseen a dramatic growth in resources at one of Lancaster’s County’s largest charities.  Effective Jan. 1, she has a new role to match. Stauffer, the longtime executive director of the High Foundation, has been named its president and CEO. “For more than two decades, Robin has led High […]

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Harrisburg Young Professionals

Cody Goss has been named executive director of Harrisburg Young Professionals, a professional networking and city improvement group known as HYP. He succeeds Meghan Bachmore, who led the organization since 2022. A graduate of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Goss joined HYP as an intern and became communications coordinator in 2024. He is expected […]

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Capital-area farmland sold. Data centers could follow.

A company that develops data centers is doubling down on the Harrisburg area. Last summer, Dallas-based Provident Realty Advisors agreed to pay $45.6 million for the Dauphin Highlands Golf Course, a 228-acre property west of Route 283 in Swatara Township and Steelton where Provident is expected to build data centers.   In late January, the company paid $50 million […]

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Penn State Health

Joe Wysock has been named vice president of facilities at Penn State Health, a regional health system based in Dauphin County. He had been filling the role on an interim basis while also working in his previous role as facilities director for the West Shore region of Penn State Health. The region includes Hampden Medical […]

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Community Progress Council

York-based nonprofit Community Progress Council has hired a development director and a controller. Tom O’Connor is the new development director, succeeding Emily Seitz, who took a fundraising role at the United Way of York County. He worked most recently as executive director of the Pennsylvania Ag Discovery Center, a startup nonprofit in Gettysburg. Before that, he was director […]

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Carlisle-area warehouse fetches nearly $142M

One of the biggest warehouses in Cumberland County has changed hands. An arm of California-based investment firm PCCP LLC paid $141.6 million for a 1.2 million-square-foot building at 3419 Ritner Road off Interstate 81 in West Pennsboro Township, according to real estate firm JLL, which represented the seller, an affiliate of Radnor-based Exeter Property Group.  Exeter paid $85 million for […]

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West Shore Home launches in New England

Mechanicsburg-based home improvement contractor West Shore Home is moving into New England with the opening of its first branch in the region. The office in the Boston suburb of Franklin, Massachusetts, will cover an area encompassing most of Massachusetts as well as parts of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Founded in 2006, West Shore […]

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Recycling biz expands York-area operations

Over the last several years, Utah-based waste collector recyclops has been sending plastic to a small plant in York city that converts the waste into a building material. In September, recyclops launched its own operation in the region. “We just needed more space to move our elbows,” said recyclops founder and CEO Ryan Smith.  Where is this […]

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Cultivate Lancaster

Catherine Bonser has been named executive director of Cultivate Lancaster. The position had been vacant, according to a spokesperson for the nonprofit. A former Kodak and Dentsply Sirona executive, Bonser has spent the last seven years as a volunteer for the Lancaster-Lebanon chapter of SCORE, a nonprofit that provides experienced mentors to small businesses. Under her leadership, Cultivate Lancaster is […]

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Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

Michael Barber has been named CEO of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health after working as interim leader since June. He succeeds John Herman, who left to become CEO of Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Barber came to LG Health in 2023 as COO following a 27-year career at Penn Medicine’s Chester County hospital, where he oversaw projects such as […]

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Steel fabricator leases Red Lion space

SWF Industrial, a metal fabricator based in Wrightsville, is adding a third production location, a 39,200-square foot industrial space at 100 Redco Ave. in Red Lion. The company, which employs about 175 people, already operates two production facilities totaling a combined 106,000 square feet in eastern York County. SWF has been getting close to its […]

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Harrisburg U stops bond payments while in talks to restructure debt

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is pausing bond payments as it looks to restructure debt tied to a real estate investment that has yet to pan out. That would be the $100 million in bonds the university floated to pay for an 11-story health sciences building at 222 Chestnut St. The university said yesterday that […]

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Rutter’s

York-based convenience store chain Rutter’s has hired two category managers. Michael Jackson is overseeing multiple areas, including packaged beverages and grocery. He worked most recenty at High’s of Baltimore, a 52-store convenience chain, where he was a senior category manager responsible for packaged beverages and all center store categories. Before that, he spent 11 years […]

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