- Upscale shopping center planned
A Hunt Valley, Md.-based developer plans to build a 160,000-square-foot strip shopping center for upscale retailers in one of Central Pennsylvania's largest municipalities. Q-C Enterprises plans to develop the shopping center at Colonial and Linglestown roads in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, said Jim Quillen, the company's president. The developer ......
- Courting Commercial Lenders
MARTY LAPERA IS DOING HIS HOMEWORK ON PNC FINANCIAL Services Group. The Pittsburgh-based bank holding company will be a major player in Laperas backyard in western Maryland when it acquires Farmers & Mechanics Bank and its parent, Mercantile Bankshares Corp., sometime in the first quarter of this year. Lapera, the ......
- Allfirst, M&T merger may force branch offices to close
Federal regulators might require Allfirst Financial Inc. and M&T Bank Corp. to close branch offices before a merger can be approved. Regulators are concerned that the resulting bank could end up with too large of a market share - or even a monopoly - in two areas, Franklin County in ......
- Upscale retailers planned for center
A Columbus, Ohio-based developer plans a 110,000-squarefoot shopping center for upscale retailers in a Harrisburg suburb. The project is the second of its kind in the works in Central Pennsylvania, which has no highend shopping centers. Stanbery Development intends to build the center at Market Place and Brindle Drive, next ......
- Banks rely on name recognition
That old adage "What's in a name?" has an easy answer for many in the banking business: Everything. On Oct. 1, Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. of Lititz said it would unify its financialservice affiliates under a common master brand. Its eight banking subsidiaries located in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West ......
- No more lonesome highway
The four-lane highway that snakes its way from Pennsylvania's bucolic border with Maryland to the bustling Harrisburg area has become a magnet for Washington, D.C., residents looking for a more rural home. Farmland borders most of Route 15, giving urbanites a taste of the country with quaint farmhouses and grazing ......
- People
IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 KEVIN M. CUFF HAS BEEN ELECTED PROFESsional representative and Joseph J. Cudwadie has been elected volunteer representative for the Eastern Region; and George A. Gummer has been elected professional representative and E. Michael Rosser, CMB, has been elected volunteer representative for the Western Region of the Mortgage ......