Subscribe to our newsletters!

Subscribe now

The Latest News

Banking & Finance

Construction

Economy

entrepreneurship

Food

PennSpring scoops up STEM camp operator

A Lancaster-based private equity firm is taking a third shot at the youth-enrichment market, a space where it has found success in the past.PennSpring Capital has acquired Emagination Tech Camps, which has been rebranded as Emagination STEM Camps, according to Lou Castelli, PennSpring’s managing partner. The previous owner was a private investor who bought the company during the […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Shapiro licensing plan includes money-back guarantee

Tired of waiting for that professional license?If it takes too long, Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to give you your money back, a pledge outlined in an executive order he signed on Jan. 31. First, state agencies have to figure out what is “too long.” The order directs state agencies to catalog all the licenses, certificates and permits […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Two Kinsley brothers die in avalanche during ski trip

York County has lost two of its most prominent business and philanthropic leaders.Brothers Jonathan and Timothy Kinsley died Monday while on a skiing trip in British Columbia. Jonathan, 59, was an executive with York-based Kinsley Enterprises, which oversees the Kinsley family’s business assets, including Kinsley Construction. Timothy, 57, was president of Kinsley Properties, a real estate development and […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Suit aims to stop Centric merger

A shareholder of Centric Financial is seeking to block the Harrisburg-area bank’s planned merger into a western Pennsylvania bank.In a class-action lawsuit filed this month in Cumberland County court, shareholder Charles Reinhardt claims the $144 million deal undervalues Centric, which is based in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County.The lawsuit also takes aim at other terms of the deal […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Local health college merging into Philly school

An expanding Philadelphia university is taking over Lancaster County-basedPennsylvania College of Health Sciences.The Lancaster-area school, which has nearly 2,000 students, has agreed to become part of Saint Joseph’s University, the second acquisition for the Philly school. The merger, expected to close in January 2024, is designed to create more opportunities for students at Pennsylvania College while […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Drayer HQ sold to home-care provider

A Lancaster-area home-care company has purchased the corporate headquarters of Drayer Physical Therapy Institute in Swatara Township, Dauphin County.Druk Homecare Services, a home-care provider based in East Hempfield Township, paid $1.7 million for the 20,812 square-foot office building at 8205 Presidents Drive, according to county deed records. Druk plans to relocate to the second floor of the building […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Low-interest loan bolsters Lancaster apartment project

Construction on $15 million affordable-housing project in Lancaster city is pulling closer to the starting bell.The developer, a Lancaster-based real estate investment fund called OZFund Inc., has landed a low-interest $1.8 million loan to help cover the costs of stormwater remediation and a “green roof” for the project, which is slated for 800 S. Queen St. in […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Podcast: Workforce Development

Business leaders may be wondering where they will find the skilled people they need to keep their companies running and growing in the years ahead.This edition of the YCEA podcast, produced in partnership with biznewsPA, offers perspective from those in the trenches of training. It features Pedro Rivera, president of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

York-area golf course sold

Inch & Co., a York-based construction and real estate company, has purchased Regents’ Glen Country Club in Spring Garden Township, York County.According to county deed records, Inch affiliate RG Golf Course LLC paid nearly $2.3 million for the property, which includes the course, the clubhouse and an event venue called Box Hill Mansion. The seller was The Greens at Regents Glen […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Court ruling could prompt millions in corporate tax refunds

Thanks to a recent court ruling, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania could be on the hook for more than $100 million in tax refunds to businesses.The ruling came in a case that arose over provisions outlining how companies can use past losses to lower their tax bills.Some corporate taxpayers have claimed, successfully, that provisions that have […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Lancaster print plants to close

Citing a shrinking demand for catalogs and magazines — and rising costs for ink and paper — commercial printing giant LSC Communications is stopping the presses at its two plants in Lancaster County, laying off about 656 workersThe closure comes more than two years after LSC was rescued from bankruptcy by a Connecticut-based conglomerate called Atlas Holdings. Executives had […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Court rules local stormwater fee is a tax

West Chester University and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education do not have to pay an annual six-figure stormwater fee imposed by West Chester Borough.Why? Because Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ruled yesterday that the fee is a tax — and state entities don’t have to pay taxes.In a lawsuit filed in 2018, the borough argued that the assessments are a […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Hanover plaza near proposed Wawa sells for $2.2M

Local shopping centers are continuing to attract interest from area buyers.The latest example is Penn Plaza, an 82,500 square-foot shopping center at 1019 Baltimore St. in Penn Township, York County, outside Hanover. The Trone Family Trust, based in Hanover, paid $2.2 million for the plaza, which counts an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet store and a Ninja Logic gym among its […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Report: PA lags on innovation, entrepreneurship

Pennsylvania has many of the ingredients for an economy powered by innovation and entrepreneurship, according to a report released today by Brookings Institution, a prominent think tank in Washington, D.C.However, the state has struggled to bake them into a dynamic, high-growth economy, putting large swaths of Pennsylvania at risk of stagnation, said the report, which offers a […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Longtime CEO to retire from regional engineering firm

Robert Grubic is retiring as CEO of the engineering firm that has borne his name for just over four decades.As of the end of this year, the next CEO of Harrisburg-based Herbert Rowland & Grubic will be Jason Fralick, who has been its president since 2019.Grubic plans to remain chairman of the board at the employee-owned company.“HRG is […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Hanover-area plaza goes for $28.75M

A Hanover-area mall is under new ownership.Plymouth Meeting-based real estate company Pennmark Management paid $28.75 million for Gateway Hanover, a 192,774 square-foot shopping center just north of the York County borough. It was developed starting in 2010.The seller was Hanover-based Conewago North Ridge Partners LP, according to Brad Rohrbaugh, retail director for York-based real estate firm Bennett Williams Commercial.Rohrbaugh, […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Utz names next CEO 

After steering one of the region’s largest private companies onto the public market, Utz Brands CEO Dylan Lissette is stepping into a new role.After 27 years with the Hanover-based snack maker, Lissette will become executive chairman of the company’s board on Dec.15.Utz’s new CEO will be Howard Friedman, currently COO of St. Louis-based Post Holdings, a consumer-packaged goods […]

To access this post, you must purchase biznewsPA Subscription or biznewsPA Team Subscriptions.

Read More »

Government

Health Care

Manufacturing

Marketing

Real Estate

Retail

Technology

Other Categories

"We had a great experience working with Joel and biznewsPA. The content we placed in his newsletter significantly outperformed similar content placed in newsletters with similar audiences. The data clearly demonstrated that his readers are engaged and represent the executive audience we wanted to reach."

• David Peck, Vice President of Business Development, Industrial Resolution

Sign me up!
Home

NEWS THAT MATTERS IN YOUR INBOX:

Daily. Curated. Meaningful. Helpful.

Central PA’s Source for Business News Online.

Explore and Connect

Contact Us