REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations

Construction will begin this fall on a 115,000-square-foot distribution facility in the Lebanon Valley Business Park in South Lebanon Township.

An open field stretches for miles, rolling along the Central Pennsylvania landscape like a green blanket.

Construction, architecture and engineering companies in the midstate have teamed up to create a student-mentor program that proponents hope will bolster Central Pennsylvania’s building-and-design workforce.

Steve Wenger drives the 4x4 pickup along a gravel road.

As energy prices rise, builders and developers in Central Pennsylvania are eyeing a raft of materials, methods and technologies designed to make buildings more efficient.

Robert L. Myers III has to hunt down one by one the green products scattered throughout the West York showroom of his building-supply company, John H. Myers & Son Inc.

One group challenges a plan to put wind turbines on a wild mountain ridge in northeastern Pennsylvania because it doesn’t like how the turbines will look and sound.

Construction companies in Central Pennsylvania have dealt with an unstable raw-materials market for the past three to four years.

Wayne Schutz climbed a short flight of stairs that led him onto a narrow walkway stretching over a rectangular vat filled with wastewater.

It took several years of discussion and debate, but 11 Lancaster County municipalities have accomplished an uncommon feat in Pennsylvania’s fractured system of government.

Harrisburg-based Pennsy Supply Inc., a subsidiary of Mid-Atlantic Group of Companies of Oldcastle Materials, today bought McMinn’s Inc., based in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, a Pennsy spokeswoman said.

A 12-story parking garage will open Oct. 19 at 200 South St. in Harrisburg.

The Harrisburg Regional Chamber and Capital Region Economic Development Corp. (CREDC) have urged the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to choose a mostly vacant tract at North Sixth and Reily streets for the construction of a Federal Courthouse in Harrisburg.

REAL ESTATE NEWS: openings, contracts, transactions, relocations