Mavis Tires & Brakes leased land on Old York Road near the Fairview Shopping Plaza in New Cumberland. The company plans to build and open a store there by the end of 2026. Laura Martin of SVN Latus Commercial Realty Group facilitated the lease transaction. An additional 2.6 acres are available for lease at the site. […]
Stephen Cerutti, a former assistant U.S. attorney, has joined the Harrisburg office of regional law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick. He is part of the firm’s white collar defense, public corruption and investigations group. Before joining McNees, Cerutti spent more than 25 years with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and Harrisburg. He worked […]
Devon Mailey became interim CEO of Duck Donuts in January 2025 following the resignation of Betsy Hamm, who led the chain through a growth spurt following the Covid-19 pandemic. Growth continued this year under Mailey’s leadership — and the interim tag was removed from her title in December. But she has spent a good chunk […]
Lancaster-based law firm Barley Snyder has hired three attorneys to start the year. Hyo Jin “Jinnie” Lee has joined the firm’s food and agribusiness group. A trained pastry chef and food entrepreneur, Lee worked most recently as a judicial law clerk for the Berks County Court of Common Pleas. Lee has a law degree from […]
Building products manufacturer Armstrong World Industries Inc. is continuing a buying spree that began nearly a decade ago. The company, based in Manor Township, Lancaster County, said this week it purchased Parallel Architectural Products, its 14th acquisition since 2016. Based in Englewood, Colorado, Parallel employs about 25 people and makes extruded aluminum products used on building exteriors. An Armstrong […]
A Dunkin’ Donuts is slated to open this summer on a long-vacant tract at the intersection of Route 30 and Biesecker Road in Jackson Township, west of York city, according to Blake Shaffer, a senior associate at York-based Bennett Williams Commercial, who facilitated a sale of the property at the end of 2025. Red Lion-based GN Realty Thomasville […]
Harrisburg-based contractor SECCO Electric has promoted two long-time employees to leadership roles. Darren Evanoff has been promoted to vice president of business development and estimating, while Dave Edmondson has been promoted to vice president of operations. Evanoff joined SECCO in 2005 and has been leading the company’s estimating team, building strong client relationships and supporting […]
Matthew Alpert has been named executive vice president and chief wealth officer of Orrstown Financial Advisors, the wealth management arm of Orrstown Bank. It’s a new position for the organization, according to an Orrstown spokesperson. Alpert worked previously in leadership roles at Wells Fargo, where he managed and developed teams providing financial solutions to high-net-worth individuals and […]
Home improvement contractor West Shore Home is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to pay hourly sales reps for work they performed before and after their shifts began, charges that have been lobbed at numerous companies over the years The lawsuit alleges that West Shore Home sales reps had to log into their computers and work-related […]
Susan Grosh has joined the family and collaborative law group of Harrisburg-based law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick. Grosh worked most recently at a Lancaster-based law firm and is based in McNees’ Lancaster office. She has spent more than 40 years representing clients in a wide array of family law matters, including divorce, custody, support, […]
Lancaster-based news publisher LNP Media Group is trimming staff ahead of its transfer to startup nonprofit Always Lancaster. The cuts affect 11 staff members, five from the news side and six from operations, according to a spokesperson for Always Lancaster. A spokesperson for LNP’s current parent, Pennon, declined to comment before the organization completes the deal with […]
Lancaster County boiler maker Burnham Holdings Inc. has shaken off its liability for asbestos claims through what is an increasingly common type of transaction. Under the deal, Burnham sold subsidiaries housing the liabilities to affiliates of a firm that specializes in managing them, a Florida-based firm called Financial Asset Recovery Analytics LLC. The transaction will have no […]
A Harrisburg-area office of veterinary practice Animal Hospital of Dauphin County was sold in a lease-back deal to Terramed Real Estate Solutions, a Bala Cynwyd-based real estate investment trust specializing in veterinary, ophthalmology and fertility properties. Practice owner Dr. Rob Sarsfield received just over $1.9 million in equity in Terramed, which owns more than 650,000 square feet […]
Southern Airways, a Dallas-based airline that operates federally subsidized flights out of Lancaster Airport, is getting an extension. The airline’s current subsidies were slated to expire at the end of 2025, but they have been extended through the end of April, according to an order issued Jan. 2 by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The federal […]
Mark Gallo has been named district manager for the Jersey district of Investment Real Estate Group of Companies, a York-based operator of self-storage facilities. Gallo worked previously as district general manager at H&R Block in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, for 19 years, where he oversaw 30 retail offices. For Investment Real Estate, Gallo will oversee operations […]
The new year began without new ownership for LNP Media Group, the Lancaster-based news publisher owned by WITF parent Pennon. Pennon hoped to donate the company to a startup nonprofit called Always Lancaster by the end of 2025, pending approval from the Pennsylvania Attorney General. “To make this transition as smooth as possible as we work through the remaining details, we […]
A nonprofit lender based in Lancaster has landed $45 million in federal tax credits that it will use to kickstart projects around the region. The U.S. Treasury last week named Finanta, formerly Community First Fund, as one of dozens of recipients this year under the New Markets Tax Credit program, which is designed to lure private-sector […]
It was time to sell the donuts — and the honey, the baseball team and the roller coasters. Not to mention the banks, manufacturers and engineering firms, among others, that changed hands over the past year. Local dealmakers faced the usual headwinds in 2025, including relatively high interest rates. But they also had to navigate […]