Dr. Michael Kupferman has been named CEO of Penn State Health effective June 23. He succeeds Steve Massini, who retired last fall after five years in the top post at the regional health system. Deborah Addo, Penn State Health’s president and COO, has been serving as interim CEO. Kupferman has worked most recently as president of […]
It wasn’t long after he joined the board of Carlisle Country Club in late 2023 that business owner Mark Toigo grasped the venue’s financial challenges. “It was just burning cash,” Toigo said in an interview with biznewsPA. Rather than see the club and its golf course close, Toigo assembled a group of investors who bought the club […]
Joseph “Joe” Flanagan has been hired as vice president, commercial loan officer and agricultural lender in the Greater Harrisburg area market for Mid Penn Bank. He will support both commercial and agricultural customers and report to regional president Justin Manning. Flanagan worked most recently as a vice president and commercial loan officer for Gettysburg-based ACNB […]
Consumer advocates in Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey are asking federal regulators to rerun an auction that is sparking a hike in electricity prices set to take effect in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — including Pennsylvania — starting June 1. At issue is the auction process used by regional power grid operator PJM to set the price of electricity […]
Home365, a property management company with offices in Lancaster and Las Vegas, has agreed to pay $45,000 to settle allegations by Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday that it was slow to make repairs in response to tenant requests and, in other cases, did not return tenants’ security deposits. Both are violations of state law. Two-thirds […]
A regional bank allegedly relied on false premises to seize $1.6 million in inventory from a Harrisburg-area flooring company, according to a legal complaint filed by the company against the bank. The complaint, filed last week in Dauphin County court against Mid Penn Bank, is the latest salvo in a dispute over an alleged loan default by […]
Trammell Crow, a real estate development company based in Dallas, broke ground in May on a 376,000-square-foot warehouse at 901 York Road in Carroll Township. A Trammell Crow affiliate paid $3.89 million earlier this month for the 35-acre site north of Dillsburg where the warehouse is rising. Dubbed the York County Trade Center, the facility […]
Andy Fiol and JoBeth Mauriello have moved up into new roles at Lancaster-based Fulton Financial, the largest bank based in the region. Fiol has been promoted to chief banking officer, while Mauriello has been named head of consumer and business banking. Fiol, who has worked at Fulton since 2018, succeeds Angela Snyder, who became the bank’s […]
State lawmakers, city officials and the Capital Region Economic Development Corp. are launching a joint effort to revive downtown Harrisburg, which has yet to recover fully from the Covid-19 pandemic. The partners plan to assemble a steering committee that will begin work “immediately” on a downtown revitalization plan. “Everyone agrees that we need to provide some […]
Leaders in York County are focused on helping students, faculty and staff bracing for the closure of Penn State York. But they also have their eyes on what might come next for the 51-acre campus straddling York city and Spring Garden Township. “We obviously hope that it would continue to be of service to the […]
Mandi Mladenoff has joined real estate firm Campbell Commercial Partners LLC as director of business and marketing. Before joining the Lemoyne-based firm, she developed expertise in internet marketing across a range of industries, including construction and heavy machinery, residential real estate, B2C sales and consulting. She studied communications and public relations at Susquehanna University.
Victoria Geddis has joined the Radnor office of law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick. Geddis advises clients on energy and water rates and procurement issues, regulatory and litigation matters, and environmental issues across all industrial and commercial sectors. Before joining Harrisburg-based McNees, Geddis held regulatory roles in the energy industry where she supported counsel on […]
A Dauphin County authority is reviewing six proposals to buy the Dauphin Highlands Golf Course in suburban Harrisburg but is declining to share any additional details. The Dauphin County General Authority requested the proposals after receiving unsolicited bids from entities interested in putting data centers on the 228-acre course in Swatara Township. Authority board chair Barbara Zemlock refrained from […]
Elspeth Moffatt has joined the Lancaster City Alliance as its communications director. She worked previously as communications director for Community Services Group, a Lancaster County-based healthcare provider specializing in mental health and intellectual and developmental disability services. In her new role, Moffatt will lead a team managing communications, marketing and press relations for the alliance, […]
M & Z Carpets and Flooring sold a 15,000 square-foot retail property at 4747 Jonestown Road in Lower Paxton Township for $1.935 million to Jonestown Realty Partners LLC, according to county deed records. Daniel J. Alderman and David Alderman of Lemoyne-based real estate firm NAI CIR represented the seller. M & Z plans to relocate to a smaller […]
Seeing a need among its clients, engineering services firm The Lexis Group LLC launched a construction inspection division in February 2024. But it has been challenging to find qualified inspectors, according to Lexis principal and chief marketing officer Ann Leiner. So, leaders of the Harrisburg-based firm embraced the opportunity this spring to add nearly 50 inspectors through […]
Nikolajs Gaikis has joined the Lancaster office of Barley Snyder as a member of the law firm’s employee benefits practice. Gaikis concentrates his practice on all aspects of employee benefits, executive compensation, and employment and payroll taxes. His work includes advising clients on 401(k) and profit-sharing plans, welfare benefit plans, pension plans and other fringe benefits. […]
Brubacher, a specialty construction contractor based in Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, is acquiring Abel Construction and Abel Recon, sister companies based in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. Terms of the transaction, slated to close at the end of this month, were not disclosed. Founded in 1971, Brubacher is a family-owned earthwork, underground utility and paving contractor with about […]