Local Business

In a puzzling trend, 16.4% more Lancaster County residents filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, new data shows. 

The Burle Business Park has been sold to a New Jersey real estate holding company whose owner promises to upgrade the property inside and out. 

A New York real estate investor has purchased The Villas at Willow Run, a rental townhouse community in Willow Street, for $17.0 million, public records show.

Some local CEOs are lucky that their company’s board of directors grades on a curve. 

Horst Auctioneers, of Ephrata, conducted a public sale of real estate April 8 for Sherrie Yurejefcic at 1290 Mount Wilson Road, Lebanon. A ranch-style dwelling with two storage sheds sold for $194,000 to Evan Stauffer, of Manheim.

Slightly fewer Lancaster County residents filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, new data shows, but the figure remained inflated by already idled countians who’ve exhausted their regular benefits now seeking to renew their eligibility.

The departure of Lancaster County Prison from the east side of Lancaster city may open a rare redevelopment possibility, community and city leaders said Wednesday, but one that comes with sizable challenges.

A proposed expansion of Rock Lititz Studio – the original building in the Rock Lititz business campus for the live-event industry – appears to be back on track, albeit in a smaller form.

With capacity limits and social distancing requirements being lifted at the end of the month, the battered restaurant industry will finally reach some of the light at the end of a long COVID-19 tunnel.

Local business leaders hailed Gov. Tom Wolf’s announcement Tuesday that he’s ending COVID-19 mitigation measures on Memorial Day -- except for mask wearing -- saying the decision will free businesses to bounce back vigorously.

The Villas at Willow Run, a rental townhouse community in Willow Street, has been sold for $17.0 million, the real estate firm handling the transaction announced Tuesday.

Lancaster-based private equity firm PennSpring Capital has announced the purchase for an undisclosed price of Norton Jackson & Company, a Mechanicsburg-based firm that advises companies on mergers and acquisitions.