Commercial Real Estate group CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) topped
National Real Estate Investor magazine’s Top 25 Brokerages 2009 list.

REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

Lancaster County developer Drogaris Cos. is ready to unveil
$4.5 million in renovations to the historic Swisher Tobacco Warehouse in
downtown Lancaster.

REAL ESTATE: Openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

The federal stimulus bill is breathing new life into a major
midstate energy project.

Midstate business leaders rallied against the proposed Employee Free
Choice Act by arguing the bill actually would do the opposite of what
it promised.

As the economic downturn grinds on, local real estate brokers said
they're seeing landlords become more willing to make lease concessions
rather than face dark storefronts and offices.

The law firm Angino & Rovner won a judgment of more than $1.6
million against developers Norman Hoffer and Matthew Hoffer in a
lawsuit over a Susquehanna Township office building the developers
erected next door to the law firm.

I was reading (David Patti's) column in the March 13 Central Penn Business Journal about the shortage of
trades people, and it occurred to me that you may want to investigate
the recent proposed budget cuts for the Thaddeus Stevens College of
Technology in Lancaster.

A partnership between two midstate medical institutions Tuesday
will break ground for a new rehabilitation hospital.

Good Samaritan Health System is gearing up to open Lebanon County’s first wound-care center next
month.

Lancaster County-based Grandview Corporate Place Associates bought
a 60,000-square-foot Dauphin
County shopping center
for $7.4 million. The center is known as the Karns mall.

On Jan. 20, when the rest of the world was focused on the inauguration
of President Barack Obama, Tom Wolf had his attention turned to the
health of the York-based building-products supply firm that his
ancestors founded in the mid-1800s.

The state Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) awarded more than $400,000 in grants to help improve regional municipalities.

The Lancaster Family YMCA recently named Grant Hummer its Volunteer of the Year.