The first round of small business grant funding through the Lancaster County Economic Recovery Plan attracted nearly 1,200 applications for seeking more than $27.3 million. This round, totaling $10 million, targeted Lancaster County businesses with 20 or fewer employees.

The recipients included barbershops and salons (21%), retail stores (18%) and restaurants and food businesses (17%). More than 55% are located in downtown Lancaster.

Lancaster County businesses are bringing workers back, a study shows, but some industries are recovering more slowly than others.

Discover Lancasater's incoming CEO and president wants to tell “the awesome story that is Lancaster.”

Business owners thinking of defying the Wolf administration’s stay-at-home order must weigh the legal liabilities and other risks before hanging that “Open For Business” sign in the window.

The Lancaster Chamber and the Economic Development Company of Lancaster County (EDC) unveiled a recovery plan for the county’s economy that outlines a series of strategies to prepare to reopen businesses.

Plans had been moving along, with city officials discussing possible options with UPMC Pinnacle. Then the coronavirus crisis swept the country, creating higher priorities for health systems, said Jess King, chief of staff for the city.

Graham Packaging Co. of West Hempfield Township has leased 374,254 square feet of space at the new building at 700 Canal Road in East Manchester Township.

Penn State Health expects to begin construction on its 129-bed, five-story acute care hospital in Lancaster County in the coming weeks.

In what has been described as a first-of-its kind partnership, Turkey Hill has joined with the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay to form the Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership (THCWP), a public/private collaboration aimed at working with farmers to implement best-practices and environmental plans into their operations.

Members of the Agricultural Preserve Board were joined Friday by government officials, local business leaders and farmers at Rock Lititz in Warwick Township to celebrate the 1,000th farm preserved in the county since the program was initiated.

York-based public relations and marketing agency Gavin announced on Tuesday that it has opened a new office in Lancaster County, expanding the company’s footprint and better serving regional clients.

Palace Entertainment opened the world’s first Cartoon Network hotel adjacent to its other Lancaster County attraction, Dutch Wonderland, this week two years after acquiring the 2285 Lincoln Highway East location from the Continental Inn.

Lancaster County’s Stoltzfus Meats Inc. has a new leader for the start of the New Year.

More than $5 million in state funding will go to dozens of community revitalization projects across Pennsylvania to upgrade business facades, build accessible housing and make infrastructure improvements, the Wolf administration announced.