The site of the former York Valley Inn, land which can trace its provenance to William Penn, is being reborn as Fallbrook Flats, a 7-acre rental community.

Harrisburg-based Centric Financial Bank will merge with First Commonwealth Financial Corp. of Indiana, Pennsylvania. 

Chester Square shopping center in East Manchester Township has sold for $3.8 million.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Homesale Realty is growing once again.

Pennsylvania protected 784 acres on 18 farms in nine counties from future development today, investing more than $3.166 million in state, county and local dollars to ensure that prime farmland is not lost to development.  

Ocean State Job Lot (OSJL) has opened its Willow Street, Lancaster County store at the former Kmart at 2600 Willow Street Pike North in the Kendig Square Shopping Center. 

The Menaker Apartments developed by an affiliate of Harristown Enterprises and their investor partner, Select Capital Commercial Properties, has opened and will celebrate its grand opening and ribbon cutting Aug. 31 at 1:30pm at 17 S. 2nd Street on Market Square. 

ShoreGate Portfolio, a four-property, 75-unit apartment portfolio in Gettysburg and Hanover, sold for $4.55 million, according to Sean Beuche, regional manager of Marcus & Millichap’s King of Prussia office.

Businesses that recently sold, purchased or leased properties include: The Smooth Generation, Pizzeria 211, B&T Lancaster Owner LLC and more.

Fewer and fewer houses listed for sale are receiving multiple offers, real estate brokerage company Redfin reported, confirming what local agents are seeing as well.

Pennsylvania’s median home sales price climbed to $219,154 in July, up almost $3,000 from June, according to a report prepared for the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors.

As residential real estate activity cools in the region, the jump in home prices has slowed as well, though they’re still well above last year’s figures. 

Gardian Booth, a manufacturer of prefabricated structures, will create 33 jobs with the relocation of its headquarters to Waynesboro, Franklin County, from Orangeburg, New York. 

Harsco has sold its Wormleysburg headquarters for $4.3 million as part of its plans to move its operations to Philadelphia. 

As it moves into Phase II of its three-phase Canal Street Affordable Housing Project, Community Homes of Lebanon County received $50,000 from Peoples Security Bank & Trust.