Local Business

Less than two weeks after a massive fire destroyed Tollbooth Antiques’ main warehouse, the vendor marketplace has begun welcoming customers back.

As it consolidates following the April acquisition of Philadelphia-based First Republic Bank, Fulton Financial is closing five former Republic First Bank branches and 13 of its own bank branches, none of which are in Lancaster County.

Lykens Valley Auctioneers, of Lykins, held a public sale of real estate June 29 for the Roger Holtzman estate at 279 Hoover Road, Elizabethville. Two parcels totaling 115 acres containing two houses, bank barn, pole barn and poultry house sold for $1,552,500 to Chester Stoltzfus.

The abrupt closure two weeks ago of Frisco’s four Lancaster County locations left many dedicated fans upset over the loss of the restaurant that featured Peruvian-style chicken that is marinated and then roasted in a charcoal-fired rotisserie.

When the doors open Friday to the rebuilt restaurant at Hershey Farm Resort, customers of the longtime tourism destination will once again be able to enjoy an unlimited supply of ham balls, fried chicken, buttered noodles and other traditional Pennsylvania Dutch fare.

After several months of hovering just below the all-time record high, the median sale price for a home in Lancaster County shot past that mark in June to come in just shy of $350,000, and there are reasons to believe it may go higher this summer.

A Florida judge has given a receiver overseeing finances of the shuttered Retreat at Lancaster and Akron access to the financial records of the company’s Florida operation. 

Nurse practitioner is the fastest growing job in Pennsylvania, state report says

Columbia Borough has lost a major attraction in an antiques scene that local business leaders say has helped renew downtown tourism over the last decade.

Martin & Rutt Auctioneers, of New Holland, held a public sale of real estate July 9 for Dean and Amy Zimmerman at 27 Elser Hill Road, Lititz. A three-bedroom rancher with one-car garage on 0.66 acres sold for $560,000 to Steven Lantz, of Ephrata.

Lancaster-city based rubber recycling company Ecore International faces nearly $300,000 in penalties following a federal inspection of its plant in Texas and has settled claims stemming from a similar inspection of an Alabama plant for about $11,000

As recently as May owners insisted it would stay open after the sale of St. Boniface brewery.