Aided by a $428,000 Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 loan facilitated by Adams Economic Alliance, Gettysburg entrepreneurs Timbrel and Scott Wallace purchased the property which houses their gift shop, Lark – A Modern Marketplace. 

When Fred Richstien II sought financing last fall to expand his business in Adams County, he heard about a federal loan program that might help him achieve his vision.. By summer, he had a financing package totaling $845,000 in hand for his company, Laboratory, Analytical & Biological Services, or LABS, of New Oxford, part of which included a Small Business Administration 504 loan facilitated by the Adams Economic Alliance.