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East York plaza sold

A local investment group doing business as East Market Street Plaza RE LLC paid $3.4 million for East Market Street Plaza in Springettsbury Township, York County, according to agents with York-based real estate firm Bennett Williams Commercial. The 18,650-square-foot retail strip at 3915 E. Market St. had been owned by a Lancaster-based partnership called East Market Street Group LLC, […]

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Firm consolidating in former TE/AMP plant

When electrical components manufacturer SESCO outgrew its Mont Alto plant in the mid-2010s, the company leased a second facility in Waynesboro. The company has operated in both buildings for a decade, according to SESCO founder, owner and president David Souders. But now, SESCO’s 87 employees are poised for a reunion. The company is buying a former TE Connectivity plant […]

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York County Community Foundation

The York County Community Foundation has hired three staff members. Courtney Taylor has been named to a new position of grants program officer, community partnerships. She will coordinate with the York County Nonprofit Collaborative, a coalition of funders and nonprofit representatives dedicated to advancing the key priorities of the nonprofit sector, including leadership development and […]

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Former furniture factory sold

A New Jersey-based investment group operating as Hanover Realty LLC bought a roughly 132,000-square-foot building at 433 Ridge Ave. in Hanover, according to Lemoyne-based real estate firm NAI CIR. The firm’s Nik Sgagias and Tony Plakas facilitated the transaction, which took place via the Ten-X Auction site. Sgagias said Hanover Realty plans to market the building for […]

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Investor ups stake in Harrisburg bank

A family trust affiliated with George E. Norcross III, a New Jersey business leader and political power broker, has been steadily boosting its stake in Harrisburg-based Mid Penn Bancorp as the bank expands in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Indiana Pacific General Trust, whose beneficiaries are Norcross’s son and daughter, disclosed last year that it held a 6.2% stake […]

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Manufacturer buys playgrounds specialist

Lancaster-based flooring maker Ecore International has purchased an Ohio-based company that specializes in playground surfacing. Based in Copley, Ohio, near Akron, Pro-Techs Surfacing LLC sells, designs and installs the surfacing. Terms of the transaction — Ecore’s second in as many months — were not disclosed. Pro-Techs, which employs 22 people, does no manufacturing. But the company’s sales and installation […]

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Herbert Rowland & Grubic Inc.

Ryan Albright has been promoted to chief marketing officer at Herbert Rowland & Grubic Inc. a new role for the regional engineering firm. Albright, who has worked at HRG since 2014, had been director of marketing. In his new role, reporting to the firm’s CEO, he will align HRG’s marketing channel with broader strategic business […]

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Firms snag Rite Aid real estate in Central PA

Local and national firms are poised to pick up some of Rite Aid‘s real estate in Cumberland and York counties following an auction held last week as part of the pharmacy chain’s bankruptcy. Two of the properties changing hands are industrial space on the West Shore. Which ones: One is a 78,200-square-foot industrial space at 451 […]

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Former controller accused of theft from regional business

A woman who worked as a senior controller at York-based Kinsley Enterprises allegedly funneled more than $95,000 from the company into an account for a Lancaster-area restaurant she and her husband own, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by Pennsylvania State Police. The woman, Kathryn Khuc of Red Lion, allegedly disguised the payments so they […]

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Brown Plus

Courtney Catlin has been promoted to the role of learning and development manager for Brown Plus, a new position for the Camp Hill-based accounting and advisory firm. She had been a tax supervisor with more than five years of experience providing tax services to clients across a variety of industries. She has a bachelor’s degree […]

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Center for Rural Pennsylvania

Laura Dimino has been named interim executive director of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a state agency under the purview of the Pennsylvania legislature. Dimino succeeds Kyle Kopko, who left to become executive director of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania. Dimino has been the center’s assistant director since 2022. Before that, she worked in academic roles, […]

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The Benecon Group

Michael Sullivan has been named chief commercial officer of The Benecon Group. It is a new role for the Lancaster-based employee benefits company. Sullivan worked most recently as an executive with Philadelphia-based insurer Independence Health Group, the parent of Independence Blue Cross. He also has held leadership positions at Independence subsidiary AmeriHealth Administrators and Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark. At Benecon, Sullivan […]

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Heller pitches plan to repay creditors

Bankrupt Lancaster County business owner Daryl Heller is floating a plan to pay back his creditors, but the plan is far from likely to be the final word on the matter. Investors in Heller’s best-known business — a defunct, Lancaster-based ATM network known as Paramount Management Group — are on record arguing that Heller should not be […]

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Stevens & Lee

Stevens & Lee has added a third office in New Jersey via the acquisition of Brown Moskowitz & Kallen PC, a Chatham-based firm with eight attorneys. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Brown Moskowitz serves privately held businesses on a range of legal matters. Its partners include Stuart Brown, Norman KKenneth Moskowitz, Norman Kallen and […]

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York-area plaza fetches $16.4M

A Singapore-based real estate investor has scooped up a shopping center in Dover Township, York County. United Hampshire US REIT said it paid about $16.4 million for the roughly 61,000-square-foot Dover Marketplace, which is anchored by a GIANT grocery store. It’s at the corner of Carlisle and Palomino roads, south of Dover Borough. The plaza is the investor’s […]

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Fulton Financial Corp.

Angela Snyder plans to retire at the end of this year from her role as president of Lancaster-based Fulton Financial Corp. Snyder has been the bank’s president since 2024 after serving a two-year stint as chief banking officer. Snyder, who has more than 30 years of banking experience, joined Fulton in 2002 when the bank acquired Woodstown […]

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Double-digit premium hikes sought for ACA plans

Health insurers are asking for double-digit rate hikes for plans sold in Pennsylvania on the market created by the Affordable Care Act. State insurance regulators said Friday that insurers are proposing average premium increases of 19% for individual plans and 13% for small-business plans in 2026. Officials warned in June that hikes were coming as part […]

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GOP lawmaker sets sights on ‘reasonable’ wage hike

A higher minimum wage could be moving to the front burner in Harrisburg thanks to a Republican state senator who is hoping for action on the issue this fall. It is not a new issue for the lawmaker, state Sen. Dan Laughlin of Erie County. He has backed increases in the past. But with economic […]

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