Steve Butz has been promoted from senior vice president to executive vice president of F&M Trust, while retaining his C-suite role as chief commercial services officer. Butz, who has worked at F&M since 2013, has played a key role in helping the Chambersburg-based bank build its commercial services division and grow in the capital area. […]
Philadelphia-based Mission First Housing is pouring about $9 million into the renovation of an affordable apartment building in York, the fourth rehab project for the nonprofit developer in Central Pennsylvania. In 2018, the nonprofit bought four affordable apartment complexes in Lancaster and York counties and has been working to spruce them up ever since, said Mission First […]
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Caitlin Demiral has joined Harrisburg-based law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick as an attorney in its litigation group. She is based in the Harrisburg office. Before joining McNees, Demiral worked as an assistant solicitor for Dauphin County Children and Youth Services, representing the agency in Dependency Court, Orphans’ Court, and appeals before the Pennsylvania Superior […]
Zachary Adams has been named executive director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a state agency under the purview of the state legislature. He succeeds Laura Dimino, who was filling in as interim executive director following the departure of Kyle Kopko. Adams worked most recently as assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs and workforce alignment at the Tennessee […]
Michael Tschudyhas joined Orrstown Bank as commercial and industrial team leader for the York and Adams county markets. He was most recently senior vice president for S&T Bank, where he led the bank’s expansion into the York County market. Tschudy, who has an MBA in financial management from York College, will lead Orrstown’s York-based commercial banking team. His […]
Life could be returning to Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant locations in Hershey and Lancaster following the regional chain’s sudden bankruptcy in October. Chicago-based Ciao Hospitality Group is taking over leases at the two locations and plans to reopen them within a few months, according to Ciao CEO Jeff Crivello. What to name the venues is still up in […]
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence has leased about 4,000 square feet of office space at 3501 N. Front St, in Harrisburg. The nonprofit will be moving from its current office at 3605 Vartan Way. Jessica Gasper and Art Campbell of Campbell Commercial Partners represented the landlord in the transaction. BDP International Inc.leased 23,148 square […]
Allen Fasnacht has been named president of WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg effective Dec. 15. He succeeds Kendra Aucker, who is retiring after leading the 131-bed hospital through its acquisition last year by York-based WellSpan Health. Fasnacht currently works as vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at WellSpan Evangelical. He played a role […]
After more than four months of gridlock, state lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro sealed the deal yesterday on a state budget. The nearly $50.1 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that began in July delivers tax savings for lower-income state residents and pours $25 million into the childcare sector, which suffered from lapses in state […]
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Investment Real Estate Group of Companies, a York-based operator of self-storage facilities, has acquired a North Carolina property, Pinehurst Mini Storage Warehouses. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed in deed records. The nearly 3.7-acre storage property is in West End, which is about seven miles from Pinehurst , known as the “home of American golf.” […]
York County developer Inch & Co. cleared an early hurdle in its new plan for a tract in suburban York that has been at the center of controversy for more than three years. At a meeting last night, supervisors in Manchester Township voted 4 to 1 to conditionally approve a preliminary plan for 83 detached single-family […]
Peoples Security Bank & Trust Co. is marking its first branch in Lancaster County with a ribbon-cutting on Nov. 13. The branch, which opened yesterday at 2343 Oregon Pike in Manheim Township, is on the site of a retail plaza at the intersection of Landis Valley Road. The branch is Peoples’ second in Central Pennsylvania first […]
Structural fabricator Dutchland Inc. is undergoing a change in ownership three years after the Lancaster County company landed in the arms of private equity. In late 2022, Dutchland was acquired by Lexington, Kentucky-based MiddleGround Capital and folded into Lindsay Precast, now based in Gainesville, Florida. MiddleGround has now agreed to sell both companies to investment firm TJC, formerly known as The Jordan Co. […]
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For the second year in a row, Lancaster-based Fulton Bank wears the crown as home to the most bank deposits in Central Pennsylvania. Nonetheless, its market share shrank slightly as deposits grew overall in the region, according to the latest data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Total deposits as of June 30 were nearly $55.2 billion […]
Chambersburg-based F&M Trust has made several promotions and new hires. Madonna Beverlin has been promoted to assistant vice president, residential mortgage processing manager. She will be responsible for managing the residential mortgage processing area to ensure prompt and effective delivery of residential mortgages to retail customers within the bank’s market area, ensure the bank’s compliance […]