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Regional services business makes acquisition

Seth Beitz became COO of sanitation and site services provider Walters Services on June 4 with a goal of helping to grow the business, in part through acquisitions. Just about four months later, on Oct. 5, the Grantville-based company closed on a deal to buy one of its regional competitors, Palmyra-based Tillett Toilets.  “We got […]

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Court to hear 2nd request for hold on Carlisle-area data centers

A Cumberland County judge has turned down an effort to immediately halt work on a data center campus near Carlisle, but the legal fight over a stay is not done. In an order Monday, Judge Matthew Smith denied a request to enforce what opponents of the campus argued should be an automatic stay on the […]

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State commits millions to boost Harrisburg revitalization plan

Inside a 22-story building that once housed hundreds of state workers, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced millions of dollars in state funding for an effort designed, in part, to replace the economic impact of those now-absent state workers. The funding includes $11 million for a new hotel planned for a portion of that 22-story building, which […]

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Mixed-use project in East York gets township nod

At a meeting last week, township supervisors approved final land development plans for Mount Zion Commons, a residential and commercial project at the intersection of East Market Street and Mount Zion Road in Springettsbury Township, York County. The nearly 12-acre project will bring a Wawa convenience store to East York, while the residential component includes […]

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Developer mulls apartments in former Wolf Organization office building

A prominent office in downtown York could be the next building to undergo a residential transformation.  York-based developer Royal Square Development and Construction has put the Wolf Building at 14 W. Market St. under contract and convinced city zoning officials to allow up to 50 apartments in the four-story office. Existing limits would have allowed […]

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Developer unveils Red Lion rehab project

On a sunny Friday afternoon, regional developer Jordan Ilyes showed off the fruits of a $3 million conversion project that remade the former Zarfos Furniture building in Red Lion. Over the last year or so, Ilyes and his team cut 27 apartments into the three-story, 40,000-square-foot building. The apartments are a mix of one- and […]

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Industry vets launch HVAC startup in capital region

Extra Mile Mechanical, a startup commercial and industrial HVAC company in Hampden Township, Cumberland County, is pitching itself as an alternative to what it frames as larger, impersonal contractors that increasingly dominate the industry. “No phone menus. No call centers. No layers of corporate bureaucracy. No shipping profits elsewhere. Just real people who answer the […]

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Officials mull more data centers in suburban Harrisburg

A Texas developer unveiled plans this week for a pair of data centers on a triangle-shaped tract east of Interstate 283 in suburban Harrisburg. The centers would each span about 372,000 square feet and sit south of Highland Street in Swatara Township, according to plans submitted by US Highlands East Purchaser LLC. The firm’s managing member […]

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More vacant Harrisburg office buildings headed for apartment makeover

A developer is proposing to transform a pair of empty Harrisburg office buildings into apartments, continuing a string of office-to-residential conversions in the capital city’s downtown area. The roughly $6 million conversion plan, submitted by developer Adam Breneman and Breneman Commercial Properties LLC, would put 38 apartments into buildings in the 100 block of North Second […]

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