LNP Media Group’s ‘Marketing with Walker & Grimm’ podcast recently released Episode 8: A Marketer’s Guide to Economists. This episode features Naomi Young, Director, Center for Regional Analysis. Podcast featured on LNP Media Group. What is the Economic Development Company (EDC) and why should business owners in Lancaster County care about it? This week, get [...]
The Twisted Bine Beer Co. project started with EDC through the Borough Collaborative project. It was then handed off to EDC’s Business Retention Expansion team who worked with EDC Finance to assist Twisted Bine Beer Co. in securing an SBA 504 loan. Article featured on LancasterOnline. Twisted Bine Beer Co., a new restaurant and brewery, [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. Two Lancaster County industrial businesses will add equipment thanks to loans awarded Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority. The two companies, Flex-Cell Precision and Weaver Industries, both provide computer numerical control (CNC) machining. Flex-Cell Precision, which makes military and commercial electronics enclosures, received a $584,000 loan toward the $1.46 million [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. Last fall, as a California company named Gobble was thinking of opening an eastern U.S. operations center in Lancaster, one obstacle gave company executive Steve Robinson pause: The county’s stellar unemployment rate. With a jobless rate consistently below 4 percent — a level that economists consider “full” employment — how could [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. Workers are starting to peel the exterior walls off the former Bulova building at 101 N. Queen St. On East King Street, excavation and foundation work is underway for the expansion of Fulton Financial’s headquarters. Directly across the street, the second tower of the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square is taking [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. An East Hempfield Township manufacturing plant, vacant for three years, is getting new life under a new owner. The former Maximatecc plant, 1811 Rohrerstown Road, near East Petersburg, is being sold to two brothers who own a pair of small but growing Brownstown companies. John and Dan Weinlader, who own Superior [...]
Column by EDC President Lisa Riggs featured on LancasterOnline. The Economic Development Company of Lancaster County announced in January its hiring of a senior-level economist, Naomi Young, to lead the operations of its new Center for Regional Analysis. This first key step sets the stage for bringing a significant new discipline of data analytics to [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. Dan and Lori Martin raise 600 head of beef cattle on their West Cocalico Township farm. They are also partners in two dairy farms of 110 cows each. “The dairy operation has been a little tight,” Dan Martin says. Four years ago, in an effort to diversify, the Martins expanded their [...]
Article featured on LancasterOnline. With the help of a state loan approved Wednesday, a $20 million redevelopment project on Lancaster city’s east side soon will begin. The far-reaching mixed-use project is dubbed Tobacco Avenue, after the obscure alley that forms its western boundary. As was announced last year, the venture will revitalize a drab property that’s [...]
Lancaster, PA - With funding support from the BB&T Economic Growth Fund at the Lancaster County Community Foundation, Ben Franklin Technology Partners/CNP and the Candy Factory Coworking Community are pleased to announce a new program designed to increase the growth of entrepreneurial activity in Lancaster County. “We thank BB&T Bank and the Lancaster Community Foundation [...]
