The State Museum of Pennsylvania is getting a facelift. State officials yesterday unveiled plans for a $55 million makeover of the 62-year-old museum complex on
State lawmakers are plowing ahead once again with tax changes that have long drawn the ire of business lobbyists but never made it into law.The changes would subject more corporate profits to taxes in Pennsylvania by curtailing the ability of companies to report those profits in other states.Two committees in the Democratic-controlled state House have […]
Alice Solomon has joined the Malvern office of Lancaster-based law firm Barley Snyder.With a background in environmental, energy and land use law, she is a member of the firm’s real estate and litigation practice groups.Before joining Barley Snyder, Solomon worked at an environmental law firm based in the Philadelphia suburbs. She has a law degree […]
Consumer advocates in Illinois, Maryland and New Jersey are asking federal regulators to rerun an auction that is sparking a hike in electricity prices set to take effect in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest — including Pennsylvania — starting June 1.At issue is the auction process used by regional power grid operator PJM to set the price of electricity in […]
T.J. Foltz founded Humankind Beverage in 2011 with a goal of funneling profits from sales of bottled water into a charity bringing clean water to poverty-stricken areas of the world.He’s hoping to make a lot more sales now that the Elizabethtown-based brand — and its regional distribution arm — have been acquired.The buyer is Odeko, a New York-based […]
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 […]
It was a groundbreaking six years in the making, and developer Don Murphy wasn’t going to let steady rain or thunderstorm warnings stand in the way.Murphy and about 100 other people huddled in and around a tent yesterday to mark the start of construction on a new hotel at the intersection of Walnut and North […]
The flurry of litigation around defunct ATM operator Paramount Management Group and its former principal, Daryl Heller is thickening.Investors in the ATM network are suing a South Dakota bank that signed off on Paramount’s financial condition, alleging the bank should have warned them about shortcomings at the Lancaster-based ATM company.A company that sold ATMs to Paramount is […]
The sale of United Fiber & Data, a York-based fiber optic company co-founded by former members of the rock band Live, has been finalized.The deal had been held up by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, which had some questions about the transaction. But in a Jan. 10 letter, the agency signed off on the company’s sale to Lightpath, […]
It wouldn’t be a story about an insurance brokerage if it didn’t start with the volume of calls asking if the company is for sale.“It’s five a week,” said Mike Harter, CEO of McConkey Insurance & Benefits in Springettsbury Township, York County.But despite a wave of consolidation sweeping through its industry, McConkey is not on […]
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