Excel Homes, a Cumberland County-based homebuilder, today
announced plans to buy a Maine
company.

The tough housing market is forcing some spec housing
builders to postpone projects.

MI Windows and Doors raised a record $1 million for Habitat
for Humanity of the Greater Harrisburg Area, the local Habitat organization
recently announced.

REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

The new Arm & Hammer laundry detergent factory planned
for York County will make low-priced detergent.

A New Jersey company will
move a major laundry-detergent factory to York County,
potentially creating hundreds of new jobs.

Managing principal of RGS Associate

The Green Building Association of Central Pennsylvania
recently honored a York County company with two awards for its architectural
design and engineering work on two York
renovation projects.

The estate of late Harrisburg
businessman Donald B. Stabler donated $34.2 million to Bethlehem's
Lehigh University, the school recently
announced.

Central Pennsylvania may be
joining an unwelcome national trend.

Development projects, and all commercial real estate-related
endeavors, are highly local in nature. It would be impossible to make a blanket
statement saying one type of development should always occur before another.

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York's
ambitious Northwest Triangle project hopes to bring a combination of
residential development and retail and commercial space. In any downtown
project, which type of redevelopment should happen first - the
retail/commercial or the residential?

REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

York
Hospital plans to open a
medical-simulation center June 2.