A firm sponsored by private equity has purchased JMF Underground, a West Shore contractor that specializes in repair and maintenance of underground utility infrastructure.The Mechanicsburg-based contractor
A $15 billion data center project proposed for rural Cumberland County cleared a crucial hurdle.At a meeting Friday morning, supervisors in Middlesex Township approved an ordinance creating a special zone where data centers are allowed — an agricultural tract of roughly 700 acres along Country Club Road and the Conodoguinet Creek.The ordinance incorporates best practices […]
A York contractor claims it has not been paid in full for work it performed earlier this year on a multimillion-dollar project to expand a local hospital.In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in York County court, Kinsley Construction LLC says it was hired by other contractors in 2024 to provide concrete for the foundation of a new surgical […]
Seeing a need among its clients, engineering services firm The Lexis Group LLC launched a construction inspection division in February 2024.But it has been challenging to find qualified inspectors, according to Lexis principal and chief marketing officer Ann Leiner. So, leaders of the Harrisburg-based firm embraced the opportunity this spring to add nearly 50 inspectors through the acquisition […]
Brubacher, a specialty construction contractor based in Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, is acquiring Abel Construction and Abel Recon, sister companies based in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. Terms of the transaction, slated to close at the end of this month, were not disclosed.Founded in 1971, Brubacher is a family-owned earthwork, underground utility and paving contractor with about 300 […]
WellSpan Health and Inch & Co. reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed last week by WellSpan over a proposed sports complex on which they have been partnering, according to a WellSpan spokesperson and an Inch & Co. executive. The settlement includes transferring ownership of the sports complex site to WellSpan, according to health system spokesperson Ryan Coyle. […]
More changes are coming to the region’s largest engineering firm. Gannett Fleming TranSystems relocated its West Shore headquarters this year.Now, the firm is getting a new name and a new CEO, the first leader from outside the company.The new moniker is GFT. The new CEO is Mike Orth. He succeeds Bob Scaer, who retired in August following the merger […]
On a sunny day last September, leaders of WellSpan Health and real estate developer Inch & Co. came together to cement their partnership on a new sports complex in North York.Seven months later, the partnership appears to be coming apart.WellSpan is no longer a sponsor of what was going to be called the WellSpan Sports Complex, according to […]
Developers have acquired land off the Carlisle Pike in Cumberland County where they plan to build three warehouses.The warehouses will span nearly 2 million square feet under plans approved in 2023 under the previous owner of the property, part of Hempt Farms in Silver Spring Township.The developers — a joint venture between New York-based Rockefeller Group and California-based MBK […]
Chestnut Housing Corp., a nonprofit focused on affordable housing, is bringing one project to completion and shoring up funding for its next venture while laying the groundwork for a third.The project poised to open this summer is an eight-unit affordable housing complex called Milburn Apartments at 607-609 Rockland St. in Lancaster, according to Chad Martin, […]
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