The City of Harrisburg and the Dauphin County Commissioners announced that they will be entering a funding partnership to launch a new disparity study.
The study is aimed at presenting more work opportunities for the city’s diverse business vendors and contractors. Harrisburg-based non-profit Impact Harrisburg will steer the contract and study.
It will focus on minority-owned businesses and businesses owned by women, veterans, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ), and people with disabilities.
Dauphin County Commissioners, the City of Harrisburg and Impact Harrisburg will each pay a one-third share of $83,333 to Econsult Solutions, LLC to perform the study at a total cost of $250,000.
Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams emphasized the importance of the city partnering with local entities on projects like the study.
“Partnering is going to be a cornerstone to how we operate a different City Hall in Harrisburg,” said Williams.
Dauphin County recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fund the study, which is expected to begin this year.
“We welcome Mayor Williams and her administration and look forward to a new day of partner projects and initiatives that will help the residents and business owners we serve,” Dauphin County Commissioner Chairman Mike Pries said.
“This worthwhile project fortifies our commitment to doing what it takes to accommodate hard-working entrepreneurs,” County Commissioner Chad Saylor said.
“Access to opportunities in regard to resources is huge” for business owners, said Karl Singleton, chief equity and compliance officer and a board member of Impact Harrisburg.
Harrisburg rents dropped 1.1% in January but are still 22% higher than a year ago, according to the newest data from Apartment List.
In the capital city, median rents are $1,034 for a one-bedroom unit and $1,252 for a two-bedroom apartment. January was the second consecutive month they declined.
Still, the year-over-year jump in Harrisburg is well above the state’s annual rent growth of 13.9% and comfortably exceeds the national figure of 17.8%.
“As a national trend since the start of the pandemic nearly two years ago, rents have been rising faster in suburban cities than in larger, more urban ones,” Rob Warnock, senior research associate with Apartment List, wrote in an email.
“And I think this is playing out across the handful of PA markets that we have data for.” For example, annual rent growth was 13.6% in Philadelphia and 13.1% in Pittsburgh, much less than the 22% in Harrisburg and 19.5% in Allentown.
Since the pandemic began, many people relocated to smaller metro markets, creating a lot of new demand for rental housing, he explained. As a consequence, rents jumped because vacancies were limited.
“We’ve seen this in suburban regions of Seattle, Boston, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver – pretty much everywhere,” Warnock said.
Harrisburg, however, is still more affordable than most large cities in the U.S. The median rent for a two-bedroom unit – $1,252 – is less than the national median of $1,285.
In comparison, Apartment List reported, a two-bedroom rental in San Francisco was $2,681 in January.
While rents in major cities aren’t generally increasing at the pace they are in smaller ones, there are exceptions, including New York City (33.5%), Phoenix (27.9%) and Miami (27%).
Nationwide, Apartment List’s rent index rose 0.2% in January.
The report noted that increases slowed significantly the past four months, which could be due to seasonal factors.
Also, after bottoming out at 3.8% in August 2021, Apartment List’s vacancy index has risen five consecutive months and stands at 4.4%. That remains well below the 6% prepandemic level.
The spring will probably bring a return to faster rent increases, the report concluded. “Despite a recent cool down, many American renters are likely to remain burdened throughout 2022 by historically high housing costs.
Farms in the Lehigh Valley and the Central Pa. region are among those in 18 counties preserved by the state from future development today, investing more than $7.2 million in state, county and township dollars.
“Preserving farmland is an investment in feeding all of our families in the future,” Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. “It is one of the most important investments we make together, at every level of government, to ensure the security of our economy, our jobs, our communities and our environment.”
This year, Pennsylvania’s Farmland Preservation Program, which leads the nation, approved 166 conservation easements covering 14,397 acres that will permanently remain productive farms. Today’s addition added 2,569 acres on 30 farms.
Among the farms preserved are:
Berks County –Total investment $160,420 state; $60,000 county
The Jesse R. and Jessica M. Alspaugh farm, an 80-acre crop and livestock operation
Dauphin County– Total investment $380,850 state only
The Shirley L. Weaver Farm, a 254-acre crop and livestock farm
Franklin County– Total investment $5,302 state; $113,110 county
The Jere D. Hissong, Sr. Farm, a 53-acre crop farm
Lebanon County– Total investment $554,820 state; $139,836 county
The Pauline E. Grumbine Farm, a 174-acre crop farm
The Bruce R. and Laura M. Heilinger #2 Farm, a 100-acre crop and livestock farm
Lehigh County– Total investment $285,489 state, $1,160,413 county, $7366 Weisenberg Township
The Wyatt Jonas and Leah Ellen Gehringer Farm, a 37-acre crop farm
The Michael G. Wachter Farm, a 49-acre crop farm
The Nancy A. Walbert Farm, a 78-acre crop farm
The Arlene R., James D., Mark A., Kevin L. and Lisa L. Yoachim Farm, an 80-acre crop and livestock farm
Northampton County– Total investment $484,177 state only
The Arlene Savakus Farm, a 98-acre crop farm
York County– Total investment $616,147 state only
The Thomas and Heidi A. Beck Farm, a 203-acre crop farm
By selling their land’s development value, landowners preserve their farms, protecting the land from future residential, commercial or industrial development. Pennsylvania partners with county and sometimes local governments to purchase the development value, ensuring a strong future for farming and food security, the Department of Agriculture said.
In September two major Pennsylvanian employers, Harsco Corp. and Rite Aid, announced they would be leaving their headquarters in Cumberland County to open new main offices in Philadelphia.
Harsco explained in its announcement of the planned 2023 move that it was leaving the region to expand its infrastructure and have access to a more diverse hiring pool. For Rite Aid, the move is part of the company’s new “remote-first” strategy that could see it opening a regional office in the midstate.
While Harsco and Rite Aid plan to leave their Cumberland County headquarters in the coming years, it is anything but a sign of things to come, said Ryan Unger, president and CEO of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber and CREDC.
“Both companies made the decisions that they did based on their own employees and market competition and things like that,” said Unger. “Whenever you look at a region and its industrial heritage, you will see times where companies evolve, grow and shrink and this is part of that process.”
So, while Rite Aid and Harsco are moving, other local employers are doubling down on the region, citing its assets for raising a family, and proximity to major cities and the state capital.
A Giant investment
Nicholas Bertram. PHOTO/PROVIDED
In the last three years, Carlisle-based The Giant Company has grown its employee base by 5,000, acquired four companies and launched multiple new services and partnerships. That growth has been mirrored in the company’s Carlisle headquarters, which received an expansion this year that included remodeling, upgraded technology and a new auditorium.
The campus also houses Giant’s sister companies Retail Business Services, ADUSA Supply Chain Services and Peapod Digital Labs.
Giant views each of its 190 locations as a headquarters given the company’s emphasis on community, however, investing in the midstate as the center of the company’s operations has proven fruitful, said Nicholas Bertram, president and CEO of Giant.
“The people who grew up here absolutely love it and the people who came here, like me, absolutely love it,” Bertram said. “There are great schools, great infrastructure—It’s a wonderful place to live. If you look at the growth in Cumberland County, it’s clear that a lot of people are moving into this area.”
Bertram pointed out out another major asset to the company, the region’s highway system, which it relies on for its distribution center in Cumberland County, dry grocery storage in York and frozen storage campus in Lancaster.
As Pennsylvania’s second largest employer, Giant also values its proximity to Harrisburg.
“For those companies with more influence on the Commonwealth, it makes sense to be closer to the capital,” Bertram said.
Calling the West Shore home
Philip Brenckle. PHOTO/PROVIDED
Home remodeling company West Shore Home in Mechanicsburg has expanded to 11 states over three years—a feat the company attributes to a consistent and predictable strategic growth plan and an initial acquisition that brought the company into North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
“We are focused on making home remodeling fast, easy, convenient and having a focus on customer service,” said Philip Brenckle, CFO at West Shore Home. “For right now, as we scale nationally, we are staying within our verticals to make sure we offer the best experience in windows, doors, showers and baths.”
West Shore Home employs about 1,700 people, which is up 750 employees since the pandemic started.
“We grew just as rapidly prior to the pandemic as we did during, and we look to continue to grow,” said Brenckle. “We saw a surge during the pandemic. The biggest opportunity we seized during the pandemic was the labor force. Many companies were going to shed labor and once we realized that we decided to go on the offensive.”
West Shore Home’s employee growth caused the company to add more corporate positions in human resources, legal, accounting and more, adding up to 400 corporate positions.
The remodeling company opened a new corporate headquarters in Mechanicsburg this year. The open design concept features 56,184 square feet and room for more than 560 employees. It has an in-house coffee café, employee training center, private breakout rooms and a podcast studio.
West Shore Home’s investment in the midstate comes from its origins in the region as well as the positives that the region holds for employees, said Brenckle.
“Our founder was born and raised in Pennsylvania, this is the birth place of our company,” he said. “Just as importantly, we believe that Central Pennsylvania has a lot to offer: exceptional costs of living, it’s close to a lot of major cities and there’s access to large major markets.”
Selecting the midstate
Bob Ortenzio. PHOTO/PROVIDED
Select Medical in Mechanicsburg is the country’s largest post-acute care company at $6 billion in revenue.
This year the company joined the ranks of the Fortune 500, something that Bob Ortenzio, co-founder and executive chairman attributed to the region the company started in.
“This area supported the company and helped us grow from a pure startup to a Fortune 500 Company,” Ortenzio said. “It supported us as a small company, through huge growth years and it supported us in being a national leader in what we do.”
In the last five years, Select Medical has doubled in size from $3 billion in revenue to $6 billion and currently operates 140 specialty hospitals, 1800 outpatient clinics and 522 occupational medicine centers.
Within the midstate alone Select Medical operates four hospitals, two occupational medicine locations and 40 outpatient clinics.
The company’s campus consists of six buildings in Mechanicsburg with a majority of its services centralized to the campus. A portion of its operations are also located at an office building in Camp Hill.
“We would never move from Central Pennsylvania. We want to continue to invest in the region, invest in our people that are here,” said Ortenzio. “It may not be the best to access our West Coast operations, but we do a lot of work in DC, a lot of our banks are in New York and we have a lot of operations in the South—we have access to the whole Eastern seaboard from here.”
Select Medical has found success recruiting staff for its Mechanicsburg headquarters thanks to the state’s strong educational institutions and the growing economies of the region’s cities, said Ortenzio.
“I believe in the continued growth for the city of Harrisburg. The company and I have supported places like Harrisburg University which continue to grow,” he said. “This area has grown a lot. It’s been great for our employees and we are a big advocate.”
Ortenzio also pointed out Harrisburg International Airport as a nearby asset for Select Medical, noting that while it is not as big as an Atlanta or Philadelphia airport, the company still brings clients to the region through the airport.
“We have a lot of people who travel here and say that Harrisburg is a joy to fly out of. You can get to Atlanta, Chicago, Charlotte, Nashville and Philadelphia,” he said. “We have an airport; we have a great base for education and we have good housing. What more does a growing company need?”
Improving on a good thing
Ryan Unger. PHOTO/ PROVIDED.
Part of the region’s success as a place for businesses to grow as quickly as organizations like Select Medical, West Shore Home and Giant have, is that the midstate’s economic centers follow the “15-minute city” residential urban planning concept, according to Unger.
In residential planning, the 15-minute city refers to the idea where a resident is able to get their daily necessities by foot or by bike within 15 minutes—an idea popularized by French cities expert Carlos Moreno. Those necessities include education, health care, arts and culture, parks and recreation, grocery stores and walkability and transit.
“You want to check all of those boxes off. When we speak with businesses that want to come here, we highlight that,” Unger said.
Organizations like the Harrisburg Regional Chamber continue to find ways to create workforce development programs with area business leaders to ensure that midstate businesses continue to have access to talent. That doesn’t mean that the region doesn’t already have a diverse talent pool to draw from, said Unger.
“We have a great workforce here. (West Shore Home, Select Medical and Giant) wouldn’t be able to grow if they didn’t have employees and access to talent,” he said. “We want to continue to work on that. We have all the assets we need here in the region to succeed.”
Rory Ritrievi, president and CEO of Mid Penn Bancorp Inc. – PHOTO/PROVIDED
The acquisition of Riverview Financial Corp. by Mid Penn Bancorp yesterday expands Mid Penn’s footprint into the Lehigh Valley and State College regions.
Mid Penn, headquartered in Millersburg, Dauphin County, will merge Riverview’s banking subsidiary, Riverview Bank with its subsidiary bank, Mid Penn Bank, according to Globe Newswire. Riverview has a branch in Allentown.
The all-stock transaction was valued at approximately $124.7 million. The consolidated assets of the combined company are valued at approximately $4.7 billion.
“We are pleased to welcome Riverview customers, employees and shareholders to Mid Penn and Mid Penn Bank,” said Rory G. Ritrievi, Mid Penn president and CEO. “As we introduce the Mid Penn brand of community banking throughout the Riverview footprint, we are committed to making this combination a positive one for all involved. We believe our commitment to offering the best products and services, delivered by the best financial professionals, will be appreciated by customers and the communities at large.”
Mid Penn has branches in Berks, Blair, Bucks, Centre, Chester, Clearfield, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montgomery, Northumberland, Perry, Schuylkill and Westmoreland counties.
Piper Sandler & Co. served as financial adviser to Mid Penn in connection with the transaction. Stephens Inc. rendered a fairness opinion to Mid Penn’s board of directors. Pillar+Aught served as legal adviser to Mid Penn in the transaction. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC served as financial adviser to Riverview and rendered a fairness opinion to its board of directors. Luse Gorman, PC, served as legal adviser to Riverview.
A 20-unit apartment complex in Derry Township, Dauphin County was purchased this week for $2.5 million. PHOTO/PROVIDED
Palmyra, Lebanon County-based Dalane Management purchased a 20-unit apartment complex in Derry Township, Dauphin County this week for $2.5 million.
The property, at 1310-1360 Columbia Drive, Hershey, was sold by Landmark Commercial Realty in Harrisburg. It is made up of five four-unit brick buildings first built in 1986.
The apartment units are 850-square-foot two-bedroom and one-bath units, each offering a private front entrance and rear deck area, Landmark wrote in a press release.
“This is the first time the property was offered for sale since the late 1990s,” said Chuck Heller, executive vice president of Landmark. “It is also located in one of the region’s most desirable school districts. I anticipate it being a legacy property in the new owner’s portfolio.”
Landmark sold the property to Dalane at $125,000 per apartment unit.
From left: Commissioner Chair Mike Pries, Commissioner George P. Hartwick, III, Assistant Conservation District Manager Robert Christoff, Michael Sweigard (farm owner), Commissioner Chad Saylor. PHOTO/PROVIDED
A 153-acre crop farm in Halifax Township was protected from future development by the Dauphin County Commissioners through the county’s Farmland Preservation Program this week.
Under the program, farm owner Michael Sweigard sold a conservation easement for $36,000, 76% of the full value.
The Sweigard family had an application in for the program since 1999. It is the second farm owned by Sweigard to be preserved.
“We are very happy to be involved in this program,” Sweigard said at a Nov. 17 commissioners’ meeting.
Dauphin County has preserved 18,825 acres on 195 farms under the Farmland Preservation Program. The first easement purchase was an Upper Paxton Township farm in 1991.
“This program allows us to maintain and preserve a tremendous asset,” Commissioner Chair Mike Pries said. “Once you lose land to development, it is gone forever.”
Katie Dotterer wears augmented technology glasses during the Pa. Farm Bureau’s annual convention. Photo by Cris Collingwood
Katie Dotterer stood before a room full of farmers from across the state and asked them to imagine they were cows.
She donned a pair of glasses and walked into her “barn” looking around at her livestock. She pointed to a cow and said, “you seem to be doing well today.” She turned to another and said, “hmm, your temperature seems to be high. There is a red flag over your head.”
Through the glasses she could see the vital information farmers need about their cows above their heads. Everything from how much they ate, how much milk they produced, their temperature, even how much they eliminated. The images are holograms.
Sound like something out of a science fiction movie? It’s not. It’s called augmented reality and it is here, in use and growing fast. Dotterer and others in the farming industry want to see it come to the farm.
Dan Dotterer, who grew up down the road from Katie’s family dairy farm, graduated from Penn State before moving to California to join the entertainment industry. When he was introduced to augmented reality more than four years ago, he immediately asked how this could help the farming industry. It could, he said, take what farmers are using now to the next level.
“This technology is not new,” he said during a seminar at Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s annual meeting at Hershey Lodge. “It is here. Think of SnapChat, which has been around for 10 years. That is augmented reality, as is Pokemon Go, the app teens use to locate Pokemon characters in parks and towns.”
The technology allows the farmer to use an app that links all the livestock information to the glasses. The information appears in holographic form to provide whatever information is needed. It can be used to analyze soil, determine what crops have been planted and diagnose what’s wrong with farm equipment.
While the technology is available on smart phones, Dan Dotterer said, the glasses are as, or more, powerful than a laptop computer. The top-of-the-line glasses, that resemble a helmet, are even more powerful.
The beauty of the glasses, Katie Dotterer said, is they are hands free. “Dairy farmers often have dirty hands, so this technology is really cool,” she said.
During a short video, they showed the crowd how the technology can link farmers to others to share information. Dan used the example of a tractor breaking down. Instead of waiting for a technician, the farmer can link to him and the technician will see exactly what the farmer sees. Then the technician can walk the farmer through the repairs in real time.
“Animal health is going to be huge with this,” he said. “A vet visit is $500. If you have a sick sheep, it’s not worth the money to bring the vet out unfortunately. But with this, you can contact the vet and he can see and hear exactly what you are seeing and hearing. It will drastically cut the costs.”
The holograms are seen by everyone linked to the call. Screens can be moved to the right or left so new parts can be brought forward. The military has been using the technology, as have astronauts on the space station.
“Let’s lead with this instead of following,” Dan said. To that end, he has been working with Dr. Ranveer Chandra, managing director of research for industry and chief technical officer of Argi-Food at Microsoft, to see what the possibilities are.
He pointed to the 2019 romaine lettuce recall in California that cost grocers up to $500 million because they had to up and throw it all away. “Imagine if they could have pinpointed where the infected lettuce was and what the cause of the infection was,” he said.
“Recalls are increasing by about 10% a year. And we need to grow 70% more food by 2050 to feed the country,” he said. “That’s a lot of money.”
Several farmers asked about security with this technology. Jim Ladlee, Penn State Extension educator, said the block-chain technology that is in place now would make security tight. “If someone hacks into one part of your system and your system has eight parts, the other seven will alert you to the hack and prevent information from getting out from the other sites,” he said.
“No one is using this or even talking about it,” Dan said. “We want Pennsylvania to be the first. The technology is shifting, and it is happening fast, not only in this country, but the world, too.”
Mid Penn Bancorp, Millersburg received regulatory approval to acquire Riverview Financial Corporation, Harrisburg, extending its footprint into the Lehigh Valley and State College regions.
The merger now awaits the approval of shareholders, according to a Mid Penn Bank press release. The parties hope to conclude the merger before the end of the year.
“We are pleased to have received regulatory approval of our merger that supports our growth objectives, complements our franchise, and propels long-term shareholder value,” said Mid Penn President and CEO Rory G. Ritrievi. “Mid Penn and Riverview continue to work collectively towards a fourth-quarter closing of this transaction and are meeting timelines and milestones as expected.”
Mid Penn, on a pro-forma basis following completion of the merger, is projected to have $4.7 billion in assets.
A rendering of Dauphin County Library System’s incomming expansion to its McCormick Riverfront Library. PHOTO PROVIDED.
The Dauphin County Library System broke ground on a $3.5 million project on Thursday that will combine two historic Harrisburg properties.
The library system’s project will expand its McCormick Riverfront Library by connecting it with the 5,458-square-foot Front Street residence of Sara Haldeman Haly, who seeded the Dauphin County Library System in 1896.
When finished, the combined building will boast more than a 3,400-square-foot family area incorporating STEAM learning support, a 950-squaure-foot public meeting space, added public computer resources and more, said the library system in a press release.
“We’re excited to get started and look forward to standing here about a year from now and welcoming everyone to a dynamic educational and cultural center,” said Karen Cullings, the Dauphin County Library System’s executive director. “The demand for our services has never been higher, and this location in the heart of downtown Harrisburg is easily accessible.”
The project is expected to be finished in 2022 and the library will remain open during that time.
The library system is paying for the project with funds from its “Your Place to Belong” campaign. The campaign has raised $2.6 million, or 76% of its goal.
“For more than a century, this community has generously donated its time and treasure to The Library,” said Your Place to Belong campaign co-chair Andrew Enders. “Now, The Library is returning the favor by investing in the community. We are well on the way to creating an ideal space that models the direction of libraries for the 21st century and beyond.”
The Small Business Resource Association (SBRA) is expanding into South Central Pennsylvania.
The SBRA, based in Berks County, is a membership organization that provides resources and services to small and mid-sized business owners for them to gain a competitive advantage in today’s business world, said Gary Seibert, CEO.
SBRA member benefits include networking, advertising, educational, and promotional opportunities which greatly enhance the small business owner’s ability to thrive in a world that strongly favors big business. In order to maximize the positive effects the SBRA provides, the SBRA localizes chapters to certain geographical areas.
Stacey Derck will be SBRA’s executive director of the South Central Pennsylvania chapter, which will be located at 206 S. Market St., Elizabethtown.
Derck is co-owner and operator of The Hub on Market, the Hive Etown, EVO 206 Coffee Company, and WhirliGig Unique Boutiques.
Members will be invited to join the SCP chapter from Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Huntington, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder and York counties.
A South Central PA Chapter grand opening event will take place October 6th at 5:00 p.m. followed by an SBRA networking Mingle at the new location.
The SBRA originated when Seibert, a business consultant, realized a common need among many of his clients. These small business owners lacked the time and resources to help themselves navigate through day-to-day challenges that were threatening their business success.
“So many small businesses struggle because of fundamental mistakes made early on in their business plan,” said Seibert. “They are usually very skilled in the type of work they do but lack the background and experience in running a business. The SBRA takes a balanced 3-layered approach to strengthening the foundation of a business by focusing on Business Improvement, Employee Development and Family Enrichment.”
SBRA’s mission is “Empowering businesses with the resources necessary to be successful and profitable through loyal, engaged employees with happy, united families.” SBRA member benefits are not only provided to the business/owner but are extended to the employees of the business as well as the employee’s family members. These resources include favorable pricing on all insurances including health insurance, HR services, marketing, accounting, legal services, educational content through workshops, seminars and podcasts as well as discounts from members in a variety of industries. Additional information may be found at www.sbrassociation.com.
Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences has selected C&J Catering and Events, a full-service catering and events company based in Middletown, Dauphin County, as the college’s food, beverage and on-site catering services provider.
The college, based in Lancaster, which is focused exclusively on academic programs in health sciences, offers over 30,000 square feet of multipurpose event space and a variety of on-campus food service options.
“C&J Catering (a certified Women’s Business Enterprise) and PA College share a common dedication to health and wellness,” said C&J Catering CEO Jamie Berger. “That common dedication will be reflected in the broad range of food and beverage options we provide on campus. Also known for our event design and décor talent, we look forward to partnering with the college to bring special events to life in its many event spaces, including business gatherings, training programs, social occasions and conferences.”
“With C&J Catering as our food and beverage partner, our students, faculty, staff and guests will enjoy delicious and healthy on-campus options, whether a full meal, quick snack or grab-and-go,” said Dana Shive, PA College conference and events manager. “C&J Catering also will complement our pristine event facilities, providing full-service catering and event design to help our event clients create the perfect experience for their guests, whether formal, casual or anything in between.”
PA College offers space to host events ranging from multiday conferences and board retreats to charitable events and social functions. The college’s High Auditorium, its largest space, can accommodate 400 guests, while other spaces are suitable to accommodate 15-240 guests. All rooms include state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment.
In addition to providing on-site event catering at PA College, C&J Catering is operating three campus food service options: The Marketplace, serving fresh, made-to-order lunch options as well as pre-packaged selections; Commons Café, offering snacks, pastries, grab-and-go meals and Starbucks beverages; and The C-Store, a self-service convenience store offering food, beverages and sundries.
Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences offers more than two dozen academic programs and serves almost 2,000 students. The college is affiliated with Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.
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