Ryan Givens has joined law firm Saxton & Stump as a senior counsel attorney in its Lancaster office.Givens, who has nearly a decade of experience in private legal practice, is part of several practice groups at the firm: business and corporate, mergers and acquisitions, information privacy and cybersecurity, and banking and financial services.Givens has an […]
Members 1st Federal Credit Union has promoted two executives.Christy Pavlakovich has been promoted to chief administrative officer of the credit union, which is based in Hampden Township, Cumberland County. Karen Roland has been named chief marketing officer.Pavlakovich joined Members 1st in 2023 as chief people officer. She was previously an executive at Harrisburg-based Centric Bank and then […]
Business owner Daryl Heller is appealing a court order seeking to hold him personally liable for a $2 million civil contempt penalty assessed as part of an investor lawsuit against his company, Lancaster-based ATM operator Paramount Management Group. The penalty was imposed Jan. 10 by Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas Judge Leonard G. Brown III, who found […]
Jeff Mikesic has been named an assistant vice president overseeing transportation service offerings for Herbert Rowland & Grubic, a Harrisburg-based engineering firm. It is a new position for the growing firm.Mikesic will be responsible for driving quality and consistency in project delivery across the organization by ensuring best practices are implemented across all transportation teams […]
Steven Debaugh has been hired as operations manager for the Investment Real Estate Group of Companies, a York-based company doing business as Moove In Self Storage.Debaugh will support Shaun Lewy, the company’s vice president of operations, in overseeing workflows, as well as ensuring operational excellence across all self-storage facilities. He brings extensive experience in property […]
After nearly half a century, Harrisburg’s tallest building is set to lose its place as a destination for state employees.The state government is set to vacate the 22-story building over the next two years as part of a broader reshuffling designed to scale back its use of leased office space.The move reflects the staying power […]
Pennsylvania is one of three states where a prominent data-center startup is looking to site facilities, according to a LinkedIn post earlier this week from Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, one of the companies backing the startup.The Stargate Project — also backed SoftBank, computer company Oracle and investment firm MGX — iburst out of the gate last month with a […]
In a unanimous decision, the Manchester Township zoning hearing board rejected a request that they alter zoning rules for a proposed housing development along Pennsylvania Avenue south of Route 30. The board members said that -based developer Inch & Co. had not adequately justified its need for zoning relief.Inch proposed building 109 single-family homes on smaller […]
Andrew Rich has been named the next president of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster. The Delaware native and former professor succeeds Barbara Altmann, who is scheduled to retire in July.For the last six years, Rich has been dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, which houses the social sciences school, […]
A former tobacco warehouse-turned-high-end apartment building in York City has sold for $3.7 million.The price for the 18-unit building, known as Courthouse Commons, works out to be about $205,000 per unit, which a real estate firm involved in the deal described as a record-setting price in York.The previous average sale price was just over $169,000 […]
A Chester County-based partnership called Mac NH LLC paid $12.6 million for a roughly 171,000 square-foot warehouse at 121 N. Shirk Road in Earl Township, Lancaster County, according to county deed records. The seller was an affiliate of First Eastern Development Co., which invests in commercial and industrial real estate in southeastern Pennsylvania, according to its website. The warehouse […]
The sale of United Fiber & Data, a York-based fiber optic company co-founded by former members of the rock band Live, has been finalized.The deal had been held up by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, which had some questions about the transaction. But in a Jan. 10 letter, the agency signed off on the company’s sale to Lightpath, […]
During a court hearing yesterday, Lancaster-based Blackford ATM Ventures consented to a petition forcing it into Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.The next step is to appoint a bankruptcy trustee to oversee distribution of the company’s assets.The process is not likely to be straightforward, acknowledged an attorney for Silverview Credit Partners, the Florida-based lender that sought to force Blackford into bankruptcy.“It’s […]
In a budget address yesterday, Gov. Josh Shapiro rattled off a series of ideas for the fiscal year that starts July 1. GOP lawmakers focused on the bottom line — a proposed budget of $51.47 billion that they decried as irresponsible and unsustainable.The governor and state lawmakers — along with plenty of lobbyists — will […]
Dr. Kent Copeland has joined Sadler Health Center as a medical provider at its Carlisle location at 100 N. Hanover St.Copeland brings more than 32 years of clinical experience to Sadler, with a background that spans diverse practice settings, including two decades of charitable medical work in Asia. He also worked at a federally qualified […]
Local farms and businesses — including a Harrisburg-area company involved in an urban greenhouse in York — landed thousands of dollars in state grants from a new program designed to spur innovation in agriculture. The grants were unveiled yesterday by state officials during a press conference at a Lancaster County farm.Why is this happening: Gov. Josh […]
Jim Haney has joined Doceo as chief marketing officer. Haney, a former Xerox executive, succeeds Nicole Shaffer, who left last fall to start her own marketing and communications company in York.Haney has more than 20 years of experience in technology marketing, most recently as vice president of marketing for Novatech, an IT services and consulting firm in Nashville, […]
President Donald Trump is firing the first shots in a long-expected trade war that will affect billions of dollars of goods flowing in and out of Pennsylvania.Over the weekend, Trump signed executive orders imposing tariffs of 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% on goods from China.Energy imports from Canada will be subject […]
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