After converting a former bakery into apartments, a pair of developers are moving on to their next residential conversion in York city. Kinsley Properties and Royal Square are collaborating
Digital marketing agency WebFx unveiled plans yesterday for renovating and expanding into a historic mansion along the Harrisburg riverfront. The Harrisburg-based company plans to spend $10.7 million on the project, which is unfolding inside the former Tracy Mansion at 1829 N. Front St. in the capital city. Based a block away at 1705 N. Front St., WebFx […]
A former office building at 1171 S. Cameron St. in Harrisburg could soon become a self-storage facility. Building owner Storage Five Harrisburg LLC has filed land development plans calling for conversion of the roughly 118,000-square-foot building into a self-storage facility with about 950 units. The construction work is expected to cost about $6.7 million, according to a resolution […]
A couple more West Shore office buildings are headed for demolition. York-based Inch & Co. and their project partner, regional developer Adam Breneman, plan to demolish former Gannett Fleming office buildings at 207 and 209 Senate Ave. in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County. Pending township approval, the two buildings will give way to three four-story apartment buildings, each […]
Plans are advancing for new apartments in and around York. Local panels last week signed off on apartment projects at the Galleria mall and on the site of a former York city school. A third project, in a once-blighted part of York city, is nearing completion. The mall: At a meeting Thursday night, the Springettsbury […]
Home improvement company West Shore Home is suing a New York City ad agency over alleged trademark violations. The agency, Union Square Media Group LLC, allegedly used a trademarked West Shore Home tagline — America’s Most Admired Home Remodeling Brand — on a website designed to generate customer leads for other home improvement contractors, according to the lawsuit, filed […]
B.R. Kreider & Son Inc., an excavating, paving and site management company in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, has acquired Andrews Excavating, a smaller contractor based in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Terms of the transaction, which closed earlier this year, were not disclosed. The deal adds 17 employees to Kreider, which has a staff of […]
Socotec, a French engineering firm with operations around the world, has acquired American Engineers Group, based in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County. Founded in 2010 by Vijay Gupta, American Engineers employs about 60 people at four offices in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Following the sale, Gupta has joined the Socotec leadership team, according to a Socotec spokesperson. […]
Regional contractors have settled a lawsuit over allegedly defective concrete used during construction of a new hospital tower in York. York-based Kinsley Construction initiated the lawsuit in York County court last spring, claiming that other contractors refused to pay the company after it provided concrete for the foundation of a surgical tower under construction at WellSpan York Hospital, the […]
Mechanicsburg-based home improvement contractor West Shore Home is moving into New England with the opening of its first branch in the region. The office in the Boston suburb of Franklin, Massachusetts, will cover an area encompassing most of Massachusetts as well as parts of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Founded in 2006, West Shore […]