In a one-page order issued yesterday morning, a Lancaster County judge agreed to block Lancaster’s zoning hearing board from considering issues related to multibillion-dollar data center projects in the city. The board was scheduled to hold a hearing Monday to air the appeal of a city resident who questioned how the data centers were being […]
Ryan MacDonald has joined the litigation team in the Lancaster office of law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick. MacDonald was previously an attorney at Lancaster-based Brubaker Connaughton Goss & Lucarelli. He focuses his practice on commercial litigation, representing businesses, shareholders and executives in disputes involving corporate control, contracts and business torts. He has served as […]
A former furniture store in Red Lion is poised to become an apartment building. York County developer Jordan Ilyes plans to convert the former Zarfos Furniture building at 21 W. Broadway into a 28-unit apartment building with two ground-floor retail spaces. Ilyes previously transformed a pair of vacant factories on North Franklin St., and he said the […]
The developers behind a data center taking shape at the site of a former printing plant in Lancaster are pushing back in a fight over zoning for the facility. In a legal filing this week, the developers are asking a Lancaster County judge to rule in a dispute over whether the data center was classified […]
And then there were four. Air Wisconsin Airlines LLC is dropping out of the five-way competition for federal subsidies attached to routes serving Lancaster Airport in Manheim Township, according to a filing with the U.S. Department of Transportation. The filing did not elaborate on why the Appleton, Wisconsin-based carrier was withdrawing its application for the subsidies. […]
Simpson Family Restaurant LLC has leased the former Santucci’s Pizza location at 5235 Simpson Ferry Road in Mechanicsburg. The new tenant, a seasoned restaurateur with locations in other markets, plans to transform the space into a family restaurant. Larry Kostelac of Campbell Commercial Partners represented the property owner. The Pennsylvania Dutch Council Inc. dba Scouting […]
Randy Covington has been named chief administrative officer of Ephrata National Bank in Lancaster County. He worked most recently as the bank’s technology solutions officer. In what is a new role for the bank, Covington will oversee customer and account servicing teams while directing project management and resource planning efforts. Ephrata National has assets of about $2 […]
Harrisburg-based manufacturer MITER Brands is continuing to retool its operations following a $3.1 billion acquisition last year. The company said this week it divested a brand known as NewSouth Window Solutions, a Florida-based retailer selling windows built for hurricane-prone regions of the Southeast. MITER sold the business to Window Nation, a Fulton, Maryland-based company specializing in residential sales and […]
Ryan Gonder, Errin T. McCaulley Jr., Ashley Nichols Weber, Alison T. Smith and Benjamin Ward have been elected as members of McNees Wallace & Nurick, a regional law firm based in Harrisburg. Ryan Gonder, based in Harrisburg, practices in the public finance/government services and state/local tax law groups. He represents taxpayers and property owners in […]
Keith Smith has been named chief legal officer for WellSpan Health, a regional health system based in York. He succeeds Amy Nelson, who is retiring Oct. 1 as WellSpan’s general counsel. Smith joined WellSpan in 2022 as deputy general counsel following a stint in private practice with Moore & Van Allen PLLC in North Carolina. Before joining the law […]
A pair of concrete plants in Perry County are under new ownership. Bedford County-based New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. Inc. bought the Duncannon-area plants as part of its acquisition of Marstellar Holding Co., which also owned a heating oil delivery business. Both Marstellar Concrete and Marstellar Oil are now part of New Enterprise, according to a person who answered the phone […]
The indictment of Daryl Heller on federal fraud charges is spilling over into his bankruptcy case. A creditor in the bankruptcy case is citing the charges, filed earlier this month, as grounds for the court to appoint a trustee to oversee Heller’s finances or even to convert the case to a Chapter 7 liquidation. Heller filed […]
Fans at WellSpan Park this summer found new places to pitch their plastic spoons, water bottles and other plastic items. The home of the York Revolution baseball team set up bins to collect plastics under a partnership with CRDC Materials, a Costa Rica-based plastics recycler with an operation in York city. CRDC takes the plastic to its plant, shreds […]
After a decade leading the law firm he co-founded in 2015, James Saxton is preparing to take on a new role. Saxton plans to step down as CEO of Lancaster-based Saxton & Stump at the end of this year and become its chairman, where he will continue to work on strategic initiatives for the firm. The next […]
James Saxton was working as a healthcare attorney at the law firm Stevens & Lee when he partnered with Christopher Stump to start a new firm in Lancaster in 2015. But the law was not Saxton’s only focus. “I was a big, big believer in marketing and business discipline,” he said. Saxton has put those […]
Lackawanna College is planning to open a satellite center in the Chambersburg area offering associate degrees in welding and fabrication skills. Pending approval from the U.S. Department of Education, the private college in Scranton hopes to open the center as early as the spring 2026 semester. The satellite center will be in Greene Township at […]
After years with sellers in charge, the local residential real estate market is slowly regaining its balance, a shift underscored by recent data on home sales. The numbers for August show steady growth in the number of homes on the market and a slowing pace of price increases. “This is probably the best balance we’ve […]
Andrew Cochrane has been named president of WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital effective Oct. 6. He succeeds John Massimilla, who retired over the summer as leader of the 274-bed hospital in Franklin County. Cochrane worked most recently as head of an independent leadership consulting firm in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota. Before that, he held leadership […]