After years of steady growth in Lancaster, Lebanon and Berks counties, the parent of Ephrata National Bank is crossing state lines. ENB Financial Corp. said yesterday it agreed to buy Cecil Bancorp, a small bank in northeastern Maryland. The cash deal, valued at $30.8 million, is the first bank acquisition in ENB’s history, which stretches back to 1881. […]
Michael Link has been named president and CEO of Choices Healthcare, a regional hospice provider, effective Oct. 1. He is succeeding Steve Knaub, who is retiring this year after leading the Lancaster-based nonprofit since 2014. Link joined what was then called Hospice of Lancaster County in 2001 as an information systems trainer. He advanced into leadership roles, most recently as […]
Over the last few years, the York Galleria mall has replaced retail anchors with a mini casino, a gym and a self-storage facility. Could an apartment building be next? This spring, developers pitched local officials on plans to erect a four-story, 98-unit apartment building on an underused parking lot in front of the self-storage facility. […]
Shiny Shell Carwash, one of several car wash chains spreading across Central Pennsylvania over the last few year, is planning to open a car wash in Springettsbury Township, York County. The Utah-based company paid $1.925 million in June for two acres at 3021 E. Market St., site of a shuttered motel known as Barnhart’s Inn. The company […]
At a meeting last night, developers shared more details on their plans for a $15 billion data center complex near Carlisle. Residents shared a barrage of doubts. Over two hours, they questioned how much water and electricity the centers would use. They questioned how the developers picked the 700-acre tract of farmland in Middlesex Township where […]
Amara Riley has joined the litigation group in the Lancaster office of McNees Wallace & Nurick. Riley brings more than 15 years of government and public sector experience. Before joining McNees, she was an attorney advisor for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. She also gained trial and appellate experience as […]
A local investment group doing business as East Market Street Plaza RE LLC paid $3.4 million for East Market Street Plaza in Springettsbury Township, York County, according to agents with York-based real estate firm Bennett Williams Commercial. The 18,650-square-foot retail strip at 3915 E. Market St. had been owned by a Lancaster-based partnership called East Market Street Group LLC, […]
When electrical components manufacturer SESCO outgrew its Mont Alto plant in the mid-2010s, the company leased a second facility in Waynesboro. The company has operated in both buildings for a decade, according to SESCO founder, owner and president David Souders. But now, SESCO’s 87 employees are poised for a reunion. The company is buying a former TE Connectivity plant […]
The York County Community Foundation has hired three staff members. Courtney Taylor has been named to a new position of grants program officer, community partnerships. She will coordinate with the York County Nonprofit Collaborative, a coalition of funders and nonprofit representatives dedicated to advancing the key priorities of the nonprofit sector, including leadership development and […]
A New Jersey-based investment group operating as Hanover Realty LLC bought a roughly 132,000-square-foot building at 433 Ridge Ave. in Hanover, according to Lemoyne-based real estate firm NAI CIR. The firm’s Nik Sgagias and Tony Plakas facilitated the transaction, which took place via the Ten-X Auction site. Sgagias said Hanover Realty plans to market the building for […]
A family trust affiliated with George E. Norcross III, a New Jersey business leader and political power broker, has been steadily boosting its stake in Harrisburg-based Mid Penn Bancorp as the bank expands in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Indiana Pacific General Trust, whose beneficiaries are Norcross’s son and daughter, disclosed last year that it held a 6.2% stake […]
Lancaster-based flooring maker Ecore International has purchased an Ohio-based company that specializes in playground surfacing. Based in Copley, Ohio, near Akron, Pro-Techs Surfacing LLC sells, designs and installs the surfacing. Terms of the transaction — Ecore’s second in as many months — were not disclosed. Pro-Techs, which employs 22 people, does no manufacturing. But the company’s sales and installation […]
Ryan Albright has been promoted to chief marketing officer at Herbert Rowland & Grubic Inc. a new role for the regional engineering firm. Albright, who has worked at HRG since 2014, had been director of marketing. In his new role, reporting to the firm’s CEO, he will align HRG’s marketing channel with broader strategic business […]
Local and national firms are poised to pick up some of Rite Aid‘s real estate in Cumberland and York counties following an auction held last week as part of the pharmacy chain’s bankruptcy. Two of the properties changing hands are industrial space on the West Shore. Which ones: One is a 78,200-square-foot industrial space at 451 […]
A woman who worked as a senior controller at York-based Kinsley Enterprises allegedly funneled more than $95,000 from the company into an account for a Lancaster-area restaurant she and her husband own, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Pennsylvania State Police. The woman, Kathryn Khuc of Red Lion, allegedly disguised the payments so they […]
Courtney Catlin has been promoted to the role of learning and development manager for Brown Plus, a new position for the Camp Hill-based accounting and advisory firm. She had been a tax supervisor with more than five years of experience providing tax services to clients across a variety of industries. She has a bachelor’s degree […]
Laura Dimino has been named interim executive director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a state agency under the purview of the Pennsylvania legislature. Dimino succeeds Kyle Kopko, who left to become executive director of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania. Dimino has been the center’s assistant director since 2022. Before that, she worked in academic roles, […]
Michael Sullivan has been named chief commercial officer of The Benecon Group. It is a new role for the Lancaster-based employee benefits company. Sullivan worked most recently as an executive with Philadelphia-based insurer Independence Health Group, the parent of Independence Blue Cross. He also has held leadership positions at Independence subsidiary AmeriHealth Administrators and Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark. At Benecon, Sullivan […]