As leadership coach Chad Harvey came to grips with the potential for AI to change everything, he started learning as much as he could about the technology. Then he started using it to build tools. “Not just your standard chatbot-type things but really investing in the technology in ways that meaningfully enhanced the work that […]
Jason Kirsch, principal of Harrisburg-area marketing and PR firm PRworks., has been tapped as the exclusive regional member for PR Consultants Group, a national network of PR professionals who work across local markets on behalf of their clients’ regional and national initiatives. The group covers about 50 markets in the U.S. “Clients don’t have to choose between […]
Kenneth R. Frederick Jr. has been named a managing directo at Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors, an M&A consulting firm in Lewisburg. Based in Pittsburgh, Frederick is expected to enhance Murphy McCormack’s business in western Pennsylvania. Frederick worked most recently as vice president of finance for Imagine Pharma, a Pittsburgh-based biotech company. Before that, he worked for […]
Officials in Silver Spring Township were justified in denying plans to expand a warehouse on a former IBM campus between Carlisle and Mechanicsburg, a state appeals court ruled this week. The owner of the roughly 478,000-square-foot warehouse at 180 Kost Road, just off Carlisle Pike, wanted to tack on another 210,000 square feet. But the request was […]
Full Force All Stars LLC leased 11,700 square feet of industrial space at 2850 Lewisberry Road in York Haven. The competitive cheerleading organization will use the space as a training facility. Nik Sgagias and Amber Corbo of NAI CIR facilitated the transaction. 13 Baseball Academy Inc. leased 18,337 square feet of retail space at 192 […]
A company backed by AI mogul Sam Altman is gaining a footprint in York County. Nuclear technology developer Oklo Inc., where Altman was previously board chair, has acquired Creative Engineers Inc., a chemical engineering business based in Shrewsbury Township, York County. Founded in 1996, Creative Engineers has been a supplier to Oklo, a company working to commercialize and […]
An Ohio-based energy company is reviving plans for a high-voltage power line in Franklin County following a years-long legal battle over an earlier version of the project. Designed to ease congestion in the regional electric grid, the project calls for a 29-mile power line running from a proposed substation near Shippensburg to an existing substation […]
A York-area scrapyard at the center of an environmental dispute is under new ownership. An affiliate of York-based developer Inch & Co. has acquired the property of J&K Salvage, a metal recycling operation shut down by a state order in March following a fire. The affiliate, Codorus Creek Renewal LLC, paid $2.7 million for J&K parcels at 1099 and […]
Matthew Lebo has been named vice president of sales at G&S Foods LLC, a Hanover-based private-label snack manufacturer, effective July 13. Lebo joins G&S Foods from The Hershey Co., where he spent 23 years in progressively senior roles, most recently as senior director of external manufacturing. He brings expertise in co-manufacturing, supply chain management and […]
Boyer & Ritter has announced 14 promotions effective July 1, led by the election of Wesley Veigle and Casey Surridge to principal at the Camp Hill-based accounting firm. “These promotions represent more than individual achievement. They strengthen our firm and enhance the value we deliver to our clients,” managing partner Lisa Myers said in a […]
A wave of fraud has been hitting Pennsylvania’s Obamacare marketplace amid an upsurge in suspicious activity in marketplaces nationwide. The state’s market overseer, the Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority, has tightened controls over the last few months in an effort to block fraudulent insurance enrollments. State lawmakers also are looking to clamp down, with one measure […]
Federal authorities charged a former Constellation engineer with using inside knowledge of plans to restart an idled nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island to trade on the company’s stock. The alleged insider trading scheme earned the engineer, Casey Muggleston of Wilmington, Delaware, about $1.4 million, according to a complaint filed this week by the U.S. Securities and […]
For nearly two years, officials and residents in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, have been debating ground rules for data centers, large buildings full of computer equipment used in artificial intelligence and related applications. Now, with the ordinance still in draft form, the township is being asked to consider plans for a pair of data centers […]
Thomas Koppelman is set to become president of contract snack manufacturer G&S Foods LLC, where he currently works as vice president of sales. Effective Jan. 1, 2027, Koppelman will succeed Dan Morgan, the company’s president and CEO, as part of a phased succession plan. Morgan will remain CEO through 2027 and then retire after a 36-year […]
Heather Hoytink has been named president of The Hershey Co.’s U.S. business effective July 8. Hoytink succeeds Andrew Archambault, who left in May to become president and COO of Nutrabolt, a nutrition, wellness and beverage company based in Austin, Texas. Hoytink worked most recently at PepsiCo as a senior vice president and chief commercial officer for the company’s U.S. […]
Several disgruntled shareholders are pushing back against the roughly $3.9 billion transaction that will make Select Medical Corp. a privately held business. Ahead of a scheduled vote on the deal this week, shareholders filed three separate lawsuits this month in Cumberland County and New York claiming officers and directors of the Mechanicsburg-based rehab chain did not […]
Camp Hill-based real estate company Linlo Properties paid just over $9.3 million for a Class A office building at 214 Senate Ave. in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, according to county deed records. The 91,306-square-foot office is 100% leased. The previous owner, a Villanova-based partnership called 214 Senate Avenue LLC, paid $13.9 million for the seven-story […]
The parent of public media station WITF retaliated against an executive who raised concerns about the financial fallout related to the nonprofit’s takeover of Lancaster-based news organization LNP Media Group, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed yesterday in Lancaster County court by the executive, senior vice president and chief impact officer Cassie Farrelly. Based in Swatara Township, Dauphin […]