York-based Rock Commercial Real Estate completed 117 transactions in the fourth quarter of 2021, including $13.6 million in sales and 545,821 square feet in signed leases. 

When pundits typically refer to “entrepreneurs,” they’re not talking about Alesha and Chevelle, two wonderfully creative and industrious Caribbean immigrants who came to Pennsylvania with their mother and became citizens.   

Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin has announced a new program with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will expand e-commerce opportunities for Pennsylvania small businesses and help residents buy local while shopping online.   

Hot Frog Print Media, Mechanicsburg, celebrated “hopping” to a new 100% employee-owned business. 

Steel Works Construction, a new privately held minority-owned construction management company, recently opened with two locations in Steelton and Wormleysburg. 

The owner of two midstate restaurants is opening one of two locations for his new brewery concept next week. 

A bill that would allow Pennsylvania businesses to claim tax deductions of up to $1.05 million for the purchase of new equipment passed the state Senate in a 31 to 19 vote and is now headed to the House. 

Eight emerging tech-startups from across the state, including four from the midstate, will compete for $50,000 as part of Ben Franklin’s Big Idea contest. 

Businesses with over 100 employees will need to either require their workforce to be fully vaccinated or require unvaccinated employees to take weekly COVID-19 tests as part of a new country-wide vaccination effort. 

York County’s small businesses and nonprofits, as well as businesses in the tourism and hospitality industry, will receive a portion of the county’s remaining American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.

When Lindsay Zoeller found out she was pregnant with her first child in February 2020, visions of a maternity leave spent in mommy-and-me yoga classes danced in her head. Nine months later, she and her husband, Alex Leininger, who both work at Booz Allen Hamilton, welcomed a son. 

Ryan Unger, Harrisburg Regional Chamber and CREDC’s new president and CEO, proudly displays a Ronald Reagan quote on his desk at his North Front St., Harrisburg, headquarters: “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”

Coworking spaces in the midstate began the difficult process of reopening their work early last summer and found that while it would take well into 2021 before daily visits returned to pre-pandemic levels, many members came back immediately.

Tevis Energy, a Westminster, Maryland fuel provider, plans to open its first Pennsylvania headquarters after growing its customer base in the midstate.

Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to sign a $40.8 billion general fund budget that includes the largest education funding increase in state history and allocates millions of dollars from Pennsylvania’s share of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) for rental assistance, child care, nursing home and long-term care recovery and more, before its Wednesday deadline.