Highlighted by a ribbon-cutting ceremony Aug. 17 at its Springettsbury Township showroom, Raymour & Flanigan has now opened its first three stores in central Pennsylvania, with a fourth on the way.

Businesses that recently sold, purchased or leased properties include: The Smooth Generation, Pizzeria 211, B&T Lancaster Owner LLC and more.

Fewer and fewer houses listed for sale are receiving multiple offers, real estate brokerage company Redfin reported, confirming what local agents are seeing as well.

Pennsylvania’s median home sales price climbed to $219,154 in July, up almost $3,000 from June, according to a report prepared for the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors.

As residential real estate activity cools in the region, the jump in home prices has slowed as well, though they’re still well above last year’s figures. 

Aug. 19 kicks off Lancaster City Indie Retail Week, with 78 stores participating. 

Hershey-based Forward Solutions, a newly formed portfolio company of lower middle market private equity fund Osceola Capital, has acquired Utility Sales Associates, a provider of outsourced sales services for utilities and telecommunications equipment manufacturers.

Stoudts of Adamstown will bring back its Oktoberfest beer starting Aug. 1, two years after the company shuttered its doors due to the pandemic. 

Mechanicsburg-based West Shore Home, a residential remodeling company with an expanding national footprint, has opened a branch in Houston.

Pennsylvania farms produced $600 million in revenue in 2020, making the state second in the nation for direct food sales, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. 

ADUSA Supply Chain, based in Greencastle, announced that it has converted a 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center in York into its self-managed network.

Home prices in central Pennsylvania kept climbing in March as a large majority of listings continued to draw multiple offers. 

February home sales in Lancaster County fell 18.3% from the year before, a sign of limited inventory more than reduced demand. 

-- It’s not all that shocking to note that over the course of the pandemic consumers focused more intensely on health and wellness. However, what is surprising is the fact that nearly two years after the pandemic hit the U.S., retail sales of products in health and wellness categories continue to match peak growth rates, according to the NPD Group.

Following its announcement last year that it was looking to sell the company, Lancaster-based Armstrong Flooring wrote in an annual report that it will need to either sell the company or refinance to stay solvent.