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Amazon bringing more data centers to PA amid growing concerns over cost

The data center boom made a big bang yesterday in Pennsylvania.  Tech giant Amazon said it plans to invest at least $20 billion to build data centers in Pennsylvania, starting with a pair of locations in eastern Pennsylvania. The Shapiro administration described the company’s move as the largest private-sector investment in state history. “This is not just […]

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Orrstown Bank

Orrstown Bank has promoted two executives. Zachary Khuri has been named chief revenue officer, while Joshua Hocker has been named market president for Central Pennsylvania. Khuri, who joined the bank in 2019, was previously market president for Central Pennsylvania, where Orrstown boosted its market share after buying York-based PeoplesBank last year. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance […]

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Weis picks up scrips from 11 Rite Aid stores

Weis Markets has won court approval to take over prescriptions for customers at 11 Rite Aid stores in Pennsylvania and New York, according to a spokesperson for the Sunbury-based grocery chain. The stores include Rite Aid locations in Dover and Hanover, as well as Altoona, Brodheadsville, Fogelsville, Honesdale, Montoursville, Mountain Top, Wellsboro and Williamsport, Weis spokesperson […]

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Saxton & Stump

Saxton & Stump has hired two attorneys for its newly opened office in Pittsburgh. Shareholder Phillip Earnest and senior counsel Rebecca Johnson Barksdale are joining the Lancaster-based law firm’s construction, commercial litigation and insurance groups. Earnest has nearly 30 years of experience representing clients in complex construction, commercial litigation and insurance matters. He has tried […]

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Pittsburgh law firm opens Lancaster office

Pittsburgh-based law firm Dickie McCamey & Chilcote has opened an office in Lancaster after plucking two attorneys from Barley Snyder. The office at 100 N. Queen St. is Dickie McCamey’s 20th overall and seventh in Pennsylvania. Staffing the Lancaster office are managing attorney and shareholder Luke Weber and associate Tasha Stoltzfus Nankerville.  Weber chaired Lancaster-based Barley […]

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Office interiors biz sold: “We felt like we hit a ceiling”

As client needs evolved in an era of hybrid and remote work, leaders at Phillips Workplace Interiors came to a realization. “We were too big to be small and too small to be big,” said Michael Bistline, a co-owner of the office furnishings and interior services company based in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County. He and co-owner […]

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New questions raised over York hydro project

A massive hydroelectric project proposed for a site along the Susquehanna River in York County is facing questions from an unexpected source. An Oklahoma man who fought against a similar project in his state is challenging the credentials of an engineer listed on documents that the York County project’s developer filed with federal regulators.  In […]

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Navarro & Wright Consulting Engineers Inc.

Ronald Ladyka has been named COO of Navarro & Wright Consulting Engineers Inc. He succeeds John O’Connell, who died unexpectedly in early May. O’Connell, who was 64, worked at the New Cumberland-based for 15 years. In a statement, the firm described O’Connell as an “impeccably loyal colleague and mentor who always strived for the betterment of […]

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Harrisburg University to close Philly campus

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is winding down its undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Philadelphia after deciding they were no longer sustainable. The programs are slated to close Aug. 31, though the university will maintain programs offering college-level classes to high school students in the city. “These efforts allow us to remain deeply connected to […]

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Redevelopment site, office buildings sold

Developer Jordan Ilyes has acquired properties at 200 Main St., 144 Main St., 140 Main St, and South Second Street in McSherrystown. He plans to transform the sites into a mixed-use development with multifamily residential units and a retail center. Tony Plakas of NAI CIR represented the transaction. Get Smart Discount Grocer LLC paid $720,000 […]

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Boyer & Ritter LLC

Lisa Kelly has joined Camp Hill-based Boyer & Ritter LLC as a paraprofessional supporting the firm’s accounting services team. Kelly worked for several organizations as an office manager and bookkeeper. In addition to financial management skills, she has experience in recruiting, onboarding, training and other human resources functions. She has a bachelor’s degree in professional […]

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Judge offers temporary cease-fire in loan fight between bank, flooring firm

After listening to both sides of a loan dispute yesterday morning, a Dauphin County judge outlined a potential truce and asked attorneys to put it in writing. Harrisburg-area flooring supplier Frontier Surfaces claims it is on the brink of financial collapse following efforts by regional lender Mid Penn Bancorp to collect on a $4 million loan to the company. […]

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Court backs denial of Hershey-area development

A state appeals court last week upheld a decision by local officials to deny a mixed-use development that included a proposed Sheetz store in Derry Township, Dauphin County. Dubbed Governor’s Crossing, the project was proposed for the southwest corner of West Governor and Fishburn roads south of downtown Hershey. But in November 2023, supervisors in Derry Township […]

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Iconic York donut business sold to private equity

Private equity is bingeing one of York County’s most iconic retail brands. A consortium of three firms, led by Swander Pace Capital, has acquired Maple Donuts Inc., a family-owned donut and pastry maker based in Springettsbury Township, York County. The deal comes just over a year after the death of the company’s longtime leader, Charlie Burnside. Terms […]

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AHF Flooring

After a period as interim CEO, Brent Emore has been named CEO of AHF Products, a flooring manufacturer based in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. He succeeds Brian Carson, who left the company in February to become CEO of Pittsburgh-based The Pittsburgh Paints Co.  Emore joined AHF in 2024 as CFO. He worked previously at flooring giant Mohawk […]

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Zoning change accommodates data center plans

A $15 billion data center project proposed for rural Cumberland County cleared a crucial hurdle. At a meeting Friday morning, supervisors in Middlesex Township approved an ordinance creating a special zone where data centers are allowed — an agricultural tract of roughly 700 acres along Country Club Road and the Conodoguinet Creek. The ordinance incorporates […]

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