Southern Market, the nineteenth-century city landmark in downtown Lancaster at Queen and Vine streets, is currently undergoing a complete renovation that will transform it into a multicultural food hall and community hub expected to be open in early 2022. A total of ten local and diverse chefs, new or already established, will be selected as the food hall stand holders at Southern Market.

Lancaster-based community nonprofit ASSETS is transitioning out of a joint leadership model with the resignation of co-CEO Jonathan Coleman, who said he will move closer to his wife’s family in Syracuse.

Van Gogh once said that “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together,” and that’s certainly the case when it comes to a triumvirate of Lancaster-based organizations that are making a difference in an area of the world that is among the lowest ranked in the World Bank “ease of doing ...