REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

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Dauphin County’s farm-preservation effort hit the 10,000-acre mark last week, when the owners of a 76-acre Jackson Township farm entered their land into the state’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program.

Michael Brennan, former president of 361 Virtual Tours in Harrisburg, has left that company to form Fisheye Virtual Tours.

A Berks County development group plans to build three adjacent office buildings in TecPort Business Center along Port View Drive in Swatara Township, Dauphin County.

Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Harrisburg Area will break ground on its 50th house today at 25 Brady St. in Harrisburg.

A 10,000-square-foot Dollar Tree store is set to open in roughly a month at Carlisle Crossing in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, said Michael Sonnabend, a partner at New York City-based AFC Realty Capital Inc.

The chief financial officer of a recently shuttered building and remodeling company killed himself, according to the firm’s owners.

Ben Franklin Technology PArtners of Central and Northern PA invested $175,000 in a Perry County-based manufacturer.

Derry Township-based builder and remodeler Shaffer & Son Inc. has closed for an unknown reason.

York College is unveiling a new humanities facility, the first phase in the renovation of the former Wolf Gymnasium.

Starting in October, Schaedler Yesco Distribution Inc. and APR Supply Co. will share a third facility as part of a partnership to offer contractors and other clients a one-stop shop for electrical, plumbing and heating, ventilating and air-conditioning supplies.

High-profile disasters have convinced many people to think seriously about fixing the nation’s infrastructure, especially roadways and bridges.

A Harrisburg firm stood out as the architect for three projects when Preservation Pennsylvania Sept. 20 recognized the best preservation efforts around the state in 2007.

REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations