Concerned citizens groups and real estate developers don’t always see eye-to-eye. Developers envision dollar signs near existing neighborhoods, and not long after, battles typically begin.

Peter J. Lutz and A. Teen Vebares left Kinsley Construction Inc.’s design arm, LSC Design Inc., to start their own architectural and design firm about a year ago. That firm, Core-Design Group, is competing with LSC many ways.

The residential real estate market experienced record growth in Pennsylvania throughout the first half of this decade. Even now, as a downturn in house sales moves through the Northeast, the commonwealth is riding the tail-end of a boom.

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center broke ground this morning on a new outpatient complex in Derry Township, Dauphin County.

Park City Center in Lancaster is planning a $5 million expansion.

A new $3 million injection kept York’s baseball stadium alive today as project managers awarded five prime construction contracts.

Feldman Mall Properties Inc. and Aliance Management Inc., operating as The Great Escape Theatres, broke ground today at the Harrisburg Mall in Swatara Township.

Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co. Inc. has opened a larger facility in West Earl Township, Lancaster County.

Daryl Gibson and his wife, Jennifer, were living in northern Virginia when they decided they wanted to invest in real estate.

Manheim Township-based Charter Homes & Neighborhoods yesterday unveiled a new home built to raise money for the United Way of Lancaster County.

Last year, a television commercial glorified the role of the wingman — the person who acts as an advocate for another (or, as in the commercial, suffers through a date with his buddy’s girlfriend’s friend).

Coldwell Banker Homesale Services Group is building a $4.5 million office in Manheim Township, near Lancaster.

Rite Aid Corp. plans to open another prototype store on West High Street in Gettysburg, according to SGS Architects Engineers Inc. of Carlisle.

A Maryland-based real estate investment trust sold 80 percent of its assets in the Harrisburg area to a private investment group, which did not release its name.