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Shippensburg-area plaza sells for $6.6M

A buyer with a growing portfolio of Pennsylvania shopping centers has added another one. A partnership led by Leo Ullman of New York-based retail developer Vastgood Properties paid $6.63 million at the end of April for Shippensburg Marketplace, according to Brad Rohrbaugh, executive vice president and retail director for York-based Bennett Williams Commercial. Rohrbaugh and […]

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Investment Real Estate Group of Companies

Kyle Burlage has been named a senior investment analyst for the York-based Investment Real Estate Group of Companies, which operates the Moove In Self Storage chain of self-storage facilities. Burlage will be responsible for analyzing past performance and modeling future potenial acquisitions. He will report to the company’s CFO, Jack Fritsche.

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PA’s top court to weigh coverage of CBD oil in workers’ comp

The state’s top court has agreed to hear a case that turns on whether employers must pay for CBD oil and other over-the-counter products under Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation program. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will consider several questions, including whether workers’ comp law requires employers and their insurers to reimburse injured workers who buy CBD oil and […]

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Truist

Dan Belk has been named market president for Berks County and surrounding areas for Truist Financial, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank. Belk was previously a senior vice president, relationship manager for Pittsburgh-based PNC. He succeeds Dave Roland, who is retiring after nearly four decades in financial services. Belk earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Bloomsburg University […]

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Manufacturer plans $45M innovation center in Carlisle

Building products manufacturer Carlisle Companies is planning a $45 million expansion of its research and innovation hub in Carlisle. The project will entail construction of a 42,000 square-foot building alongside the company’s existing R&D center, which is at 1557 Ritner Highway, according to Carlisle Companies spokesperson Mehul Patel. The site is near the headquarters and […]

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Feds settle with staffing firm over Covid-era data

An Atlanta-based IT staffing company has settled federal claims that it failed to protect confidential health information after Pennsylvania officials hired the company to oversee contact tracing during the Covid-19 pandemic. The company, Insight Global LLC, has agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve allegations that its handling of data violated the federal False Claims Act, […]

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Changing spaces 05.03.24

On April 30, York-based Rutter’s opened its 87th location and second of 2024. The convenience store at 100 Cramer Road in Shippensburg is over 10,250 square feet. Lama Food LLC has leased 5,940 square feet at 1239 Roosevelt Ave. in York, a property owned by Dean’s List Realty LLC. The space will be the second location for the York-based restaurant, Chef […]

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Armstrong World buys specialty manufacturer

Armstrong World Industries, paid $95 million in April to acquire 3form LLC, a manufacturer of architectural resins, glasses and other materials based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Products from 3form, such as acoustic wall tiles, translucent glass and textured wall coverings, are expected to complement existing products from Armstrong World’s architectural specialties division, which accounts for […]

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Universal Media Inc.

Kyle Cook has been named president and chief strategy officer of Mechanicsburg-based Universial Media Inc. and its Universial Sports & Entertainment division. Cook worked most recently as executive vice president of media strategy for Universal, which he joined in 2011 as a sales coordinator. Cook earned a bachelor’s degree from York College of Pennsylvania, a […]

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Nashville twin in works for Rock Lititz

Rock Lititz, the live-entertainment campus in Lancaster County, is erecting a twin in Nashville, the longtime capital of country music and home to the Grand Ole Opry. Rock Lititz announced May 1 that it broke ground last month on Rock Nashville, a 40-acre campus that will feature 514,000 square feet of rehearsal space for touring musicians, […]

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Deal for Lanco tiny-homes startup changes shape

The potential buyers of a Lancaster County-based tiny-homes company are taking a new tack. Chase Packaging Corp., a New Jersey-based shell company, had been planning to take Tiny Estates LLC and two related entities public through a merger. The companies are led by CEO Abby Shank, a former KPMG auditor who started a tiny-home community outside Elizabethtown in 2018. But […]

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RKL LLP

Michael C. Buhrman has been named managing partner for the Chambersburg office of accounting and professional services firm RKL LLP. Buhrman is a partner in the firm’s small business services group. The CPA and Chambersburg resident earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Siena College.

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McNees

Amy Capobianco Marsar has been tapped to lead McNees‘s automotive dealership law group, a team of 21 attorneys. As a member of the firm, Marsar has extensive experience in manufacturer-dealer relations and dealership M&A. Marsar earned a bachelor’s degree from Kutztown University and a law degree from Dickinson School of Law.

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Harrisburg law firms merge: ‘No other opportunities like this’

Ben Ried and John B. Zonarich entertained merger proposals from other law firms. But none seemed as right as the union they unveiled yesterday between their respective Harrisburg firms, Mette Evans & Woodside and SkarlatosZonarich LLC. “There were other opportunities,” Zonarich said in an interview with biznewsPA. “But there were no other opportunities like this.” […]

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C&N

Michael “Mike” Kilgour has been named senior vice president – senior commercial lending relationship manager for the Lancaster and York areas of C&N, the banking subsidiary of Wellsboro-based Citizens & Northern Corp. Kilgour joined C&N in 2019 as vice president of commercial lending relationship management. The York-area resident earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Drake University.

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Court backs heftier fines for defrauding consumers

In a case that drew national attention, Pennsylvania’s highest court backed a married couple seeking a bigger award after winning a lawsuit against an insurer they accused of engaging in fraud and negligence when it sold them a life insurance policy. In 2020, an Allegheny County jury found the insurer, Ameriprise Financial, liable for $120,570 […]

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Fulton buys failed Philly bank

Fulton Bank was on the receiving end on the afternoon of April 26 when state regulators shut down and brokered a sale of Republic First Bank, a troubled Philadelphia-based lender that does business as Republic Bank. As a result, Fulton has acquired most of the assets and branches of Republic First, expanding the Lancaster bank’s footprint in the […]

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Regulators tweak penalties over PPL billing issues

Following a flurry of comments from customers and consumer advocates, state utility regulators altered the penalties imposed on electric utility PPL Electric Utilities over billing issues that led to overcharges for some customers, among other problems. In a 3-2 vote on April 25, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved a settlement agreement requiring PPL to provide more […]

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Shippensburg-area plaza sells for $6.6M

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PA’s top court to weigh coverage of CBD oil in workers’ comp

Truist

Manufacturer plans $45M innovation center in Carlisle

Feds settle with staffing firm over Covid-era data

Changing spaces 05.03.24

Armstrong World buys specialty manufacturer

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Nashville twin in works for Rock Lititz

Deal for Lanco tiny-homes startup changes shape

RKL LLP

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Harrisburg law firms merge: ‘No other opportunities like this’

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Fulton buys failed Philly bank

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