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Antibiotic-resistant superbug reported in Pa.

Multiple health entities are responding to a case of an antibiotic-resistant superbug reported in Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday. Plasmid-mediated colis-tin resistance, also known as MCR-1, was detected in a Pennsylvania resident. Wolf said in a statement that his administration, through the Department of Health, is work-ing with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Defense to respond to the case. Scott Shap-iro, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, released a statement, saying that while the news is cause for concern, “it’s important that we remember it was caught and now is not the time to panic as many health care professionals are working to address this situation.”

Midstate business owner to be game show contestant

A Derry Township business owner will be a contestant on this summer’s reprise of ABC’s “The $100,000 Pyramid” game show hosted by Michael Strahan. Heather Zell, co-owner of Chatterbox Communications, a public relations firm, shared on her Face-book page Wednesday that her appearance on the classic game show will air Aug. 21. “Michael Strahan, the casting team and everyone at ABC was a total dream to work with!” she posted on the social media site. Zell, who launched the PR business in 2014 with Kathy Geller Myers, declined further comment on the television appearance, due to a confidentiality agreement with the show’s producers.

State lifting poultry ban at county, state fairs

The state’s Department of Agriculture is lifting the ban on live poultry exhibits

and competitions at county fairs and the Pennsylvania Farm Show. The ban was put in place in May 2015 as a precautionary measure to protect the state’s $13 billion poultry industry from the threat of a virus known as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influ-enza, or HPAI, a news release said. The lift on the ban takes effect June 1, the state said. The state warns that if a positive avian flu case is confirmed in Pennsylvania or a connecting state, the ban will be reinstated immediately.

Auction house opening in old Derry Twp. trolley barn

A growing auction business plans to breathe new life into a historic Derry Town-ship trolley barn. Auctioneer Ryan Groff of Lane Ryan Auctions LLC is planning a June 13 grand opening and auction in the former Hershey trolley barn at 515 W. Chocolate Ave. The auction house will lease about 7,300 square feet of space in the 20,000-square-foot building. “Hershey is just a great town,” said Groff, 36, formerly of Classic Edge Auc-tions. “Financially it is a strong area and the downtown development just keeps making it a better area. It is also centrally located around our general operating area.”

BB&T execs stepping downTwo top executives at BB&T Corp. plan

to step down by the end of the year, ac-cording to the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based company, which has become a dominant player in Pennsylvania. Ricky K. Brown, BB&T’s president and president of com-munity banking, plans to retire Dec. 16, while Steven B. Wiggs, the bank’s senior executive vice president, chief marketing officer and lending group manager, will retire effective Sept. 30. BB&T Corp. is the bank holding company for the bank BB&T. Combined, the two have been at BB&T for more than 75 years.

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High Road Capital Partners . . . . . . . . 21HR Resolutions LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania . . 9Lancaster Penn State Extension . . . . . . 4Lee & Associates Denver . . . . . . . . . . 12LivWell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12NAI CIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Pennsylvania Bankers Association . . . . 6Pennsylvania Credit Union Association . 6

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Costs will be steep, banks will be scarce and fed-eral law could be unforgiving, but land is available and patients are waiting.

That is the state of Pennsylvania’s medical mari-juana industry in the weeks since Gov. Tom Wolf signed a bill allowing sick people to ingest legally a substance that has long been illegal.

The state’s medical marijuana program is ex-pected to be up and running no later than 2018,

but people serious about doing business are working now to be ready.

Entrepreneurs at a recent networking event in Harrisburg were diving in. They have established limited liability compa-nies, begun building teams and started the search for land.

But as they ramp up, they are not blind to the challenges.

Concerns loom about marijuana’s legal status and access to funding.

Others believe the high cost of entry could block smaller, startup businesses from breaking into the market, which could end up being dominated by bigger compa-nies, including out-of-state players already in the medical marijuana business.

The concern is legitimate, said Patrick Nightingale, executive director of the Penn-sylvania Medical Cannabis Society, a non-profit focused on education and industry networking. Businesses active in the 23 states that legalized medical marijuana be-

fore Pennsylvania have money and know what they are doing.

This special report in the Central Penn Business Journal examines some of the questions sparked by the creation of a new industry in Pennsylvania.

• What kind of money, equipment and space will companies need to grow and process marijuana for medical use?

• Will physicians, despite misgivings, register with the state and recommend the drug to patients?

• Will municipalities approve the use of land for growing, processing and dispensing a drug that re-mains illegal under federal law?

• Where will medical marijuana entities put their cash when banks across the state are taking a hands-off policy so far?

• Will the status of marijuana change at the federal level?

Many of the industry’s challenges stem from the fact that marijuana is illegal under federal law, but the fed-eral government has stepped lightly in states that have approved the use of marijuana, whether for medical or recreational purposes. And some federal legislators are pushing to make changes that would open more doors for the emerging industry across the country.

Pending legislation includes the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States Act of 2015, or the CARERS Act, an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act.

Sponsored by Sen. Cory A. Booker (D-New Jersey), the act would protect any person who is complying with state laws relating “to the production, pos-session, distribution, dispensation, administration, laboratory testing, or delivery of medical marijuana,” from sanctions under the Controlled Substances Act.

The bill also proposes reclassifying marijuana. Fed-eral law defines the drug as a Schedule I substance. A change would relax regulations governing research into the drug as well as the ability of bankers to serve busi-nesses that grow, sell and process it, among other things.

Despite all the activity, industry players don’t ex-pect reform to happen soon.

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Marijuana is added to medical reference book “United States Pharmacopeia.” 1851

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Marijuana is a relatively easy plant to grow. But it’s not so easy to raise in conditions con-ducive to the plant’s medicinal use, said agronomy educator Jeff Graybill.

“Growing it as the law re-quires, indoors and under con-trolled circumstances, is a dif-ferent situation entirely,” said Graybill, who works for the Lan-caster Penn State Extension.

It’s hard, and expensive, to grow medical-grade marijuana the right way, experts say.

Which is why you can expect Pennsylvania’s medical mari-juana crop to be a costly venture.

It won’t be the homegrown stuff produced in someone’s backyard.

Expect facilities ranging from

25,000 to 100,000 square feet in size, with anywhere from 25 to 60 workers on a seasonal basis

at secure sites with expensive equipment that will resemble commercialized farming opera-

tions, say experts familiar with Pennsylvania’s newly approved medical marijuana program.

“It’s going to price out a lot of mom-and-pops. You’re going to see a lot of larger operations, and this is not a get-rich-quick scheme,” said attorney Ste-ven Auerbach of Montgomery County, who has advocated for medical marijuana in the state and now represents several can-nabis businesses hoping to be-gin operations in Pennsylvania.

Applicants hoping to be among the 25 approved growing facilities can expect to learn of application guidelines later this year, with the state likely to announce winning applications in early 2017.

Considering initial fees and capital costs, startup expens-es for growers and processors

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could start at several million dollars and reach as high as $10 million, “depending on the size of the operation,” said Russ Cersosimo Jr., director of strategic alliances for the Penn-sylvania Medical Cannabis Society, which advocated for medical marijuana for two-plus years before it was legalized.

Applicants hoping to be chosen will be graded on sev-eral factors, including security, and sites will be geographi-cally distributed based on population and percentage of possible patients, Cersosimo said.

Patients in Pennsylvania can expect to start using medical marijuana grown at the 25 sites by early 2018, Cersosimo said.

It’s estimated there will be as many as 250,000 possible patients who could benefit from medical marijuana once the program is in full swing, he added.

He expects each patient in Pennsylvania who qualifies for medical marijuana to require a half-ounce to an ounce a month, and the medicine that results will be tested under a state-regulated analytical protocol, regardless of the grow-ing infrastructure, he added.

As for where it will be grown, attorney Auerbach said some clients have been looking at Juniata and Perry coun-ties because of their central location, major arteries that connect them to other areas of the state and the relatively low cost of land.

Agronomists have told him that Pennsylvania as a whole has great sun, as it is neither too far north or south, he added.<

How will it be grown? Here are details from medical cannabis advocate Russ Cersosimo Jr., director of strategic alliances for the Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Society, on what to expect:

1Expect “growing rooms that are designed to maintain constant environmental conditions” like temperature,

humidity and carbon dioxide, and “closed-loop systems” that lessen the potential for contaminants like pests and mold spores, he said.

2Expect UV lighting and filters to reduce the potential for mold, bacteria, mildew and fungal outbreaks and car-

bon filters to be used for odor control: “As the industry has matured, we have seen the introduction of greenhouses.”

3The cultivation process begins with propagation, also known as cloning. Cuttings are taken from a “mother”

plant and inserted into a material such as rock wool.

4 Once the cuttings are completely rooted, the plants are repotted for the vegetative stage. This stage

requires the plant to be under a cycle of 18 hours of lights on and six hours of lights off.

5 Next, the plants are re-potted for an additional stage of vegetative growth. During this stage, the plant is pre-

pared for the flowering cycle.

6The flower phase is when the plant transitions to a cycle of 12 hours of lights on and 12 hours of lights off.

The flowering phase is when the plant produces medicine for patients, Cersosimo said.

7Once the flowering plants have fully matured, they can be harvested, trimmed, dried, cured and packaged.

8The average time frame for growing is anywhere from five months to six months, Cersosimo said.

9He expects the marijuana to be processed in large, commercial-grade machines costing anywhere from

$100,000 up to $700,000.

10Once the plants are harvested, equipment such as “Supercritical Fluid Extraction Systems” are used

to extract chemical compounds, using supercritical carbon dioxide instead of an organic solvent. This process involves manipulating the temperature and pressure to extract oils found within the plant, explained Ron Smalley, a partner with Cersosimo in the Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Society.

The marijuana will be sold only at dispensaries in the form of pills, oil, topical treatment or a liquid form that can be vaporized and inhaled, officials have said.

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By Michael [email protected]

Bankers may someday handle money from the marijuana industry without fear of legal retribution.

But not today.Despite passage of a law allowing the medical use of

marijuana in Pennsylvania, the substance remains illegal under federal law. That poses a problem for bankers, who are under federal jurisdiction whether or not their business crosses state lines.

It’s also a problem for the medical marijuana industry. Would-be players need to cough up significant capital, and they will need partners to handle deposits, make loans and process payments.

But bankers that handle money coming from marijuana-related businesses — let alone extend lines of credit to them or make small-business loans — run the risk of violating federal law, losing their charters and facing criminal prosecution, banking experts said.

The issue was brought to legislators’ attention during the debate over medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, said Dan Reisteter, vice president of government relations for the Pennsylvania Bankers Association.

“They understood the message and were prepared to deal with that,” he said.

But in the absence of any legislative ac-tion so far, Pennsylvania bankers appear to be taking a hands-off approach.

Luke Bernstein, senior vice president of external rela-tions at the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, said no banks in the state have reached out to the association for guidance on doing business with a marijuana-related en-tity, even though several reached out during the debate over Senate Bill 3, which made medical marijuana legal.

“It’s not surprising banks haven’t reached out,” Bernstein said. “I believe they know, ‘We can’t touch this.’”

Some states are trying to pave the way. In April, for ex-ample, Oregon enacted a law protecting financial institu-tions that handle money from marijuana businesses from state criminal laws.

Federal regulators also have tried to give bankers some room.

The U.S. Departments of Justice and Treasury have pub-lished guidance on how banks can safely approach handling money from marijuana businesses in states where the drug is legal, whether for medical or recreational use. But because the drug remains illegal under federal law, banks still run risks.

Courts pose another potential obstacle.State regulators in Colorado, for example, approved a char-

ter for Fourth Corner Credit Union, which was formed to serve the state’s legal marijuana industry. But the Federal Reserve denied the charter, and the credit union appealed in court. It lost when a federal judge in Colorado dismissed the lawsuit.

“These guidance documents simply suggest that pros-ecutors and bank regulators might ‘look the other way’ if financial institutions don’t mind violating the law,” Judge

R. Brook Jackson said in his January opinion. “A federal court cannot look the other way. I regard the situation as untenable and hope that it will soon be addressed and

resolved by Congress.”Legislators in Oregon this year passed a bill relieving

financial institutions from any state-law ramifications from dealing with marijuana-related businesses.

However, Linda Navarro, president and CEO of the Oregon

Bankers Association, said the state law doesn’t supersede federal laws, and she said it was drafted and passed in an ef-fort to prod passage of similar legislation at the federal level.

The state law hasn’t made a difference, she added. Few Oregon banks are serving medical marijuana entities.

“It’s an expensive task and there is plenty of risk associ-ated with it. Most financial institutions just aren’t engaging with it at this point,” she said.

One risk is that even where authorities appear to be of-fering some room to maneuver, the situation could change under a new administration.

Michael Wishnow, spokesman for the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association, said some of the state’s credit unions have looked to the association for guidance, but he said it is still researching what would and wouldn’t be allowed.

The research includes reaching out to the backers of Fourth Corner Credit Union for advice on best practices.

“Some (credit unions) are obviously looking at it, and I’d imagine there are others that will not want anything to do with it,” Wishnow said. “Right now, they don’t have a busi-ness to serve. But we know they’re coming and we know we need to do the research for our members if this is something they want to get into.”<

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Pennsylvania in April became the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana, a process that began with California in 1996 and also includes the District of Columbia. Louisiana joined the club in May. Fifteen states offer limited access to can-nabis extracts, while Texas has a program which is non-functional due to legal concerns. Nine other states have no such laws. Here is a rundown of how the various states stack up:

Medical marijuana legal in 25 states

LegalizedThese 25 states, plus Washington, D.C., and Guam,

have enacted laws to provide “comprehensive public medical marijuana and cannabis programs,” as described by the National Conference of State Legislatures. The four basic criteria of such laws, according to NCSL, are:

• Protection from criminal penalties for medical use;• Access to marijuana through routes that may

include home cultivation, dispensaries or some other system;

• Access to a variety of strains, including those beyond the "low THC" variety, referring to the psycho-active component of marijuana;

• Permission for either smoking or vaporization.Details vary, however, on everything from qualifying

medical conditions and use of dispensaries to patient registries, recognition of out-of-state patients and potential development of retail sales. Some states, such as Pennsylvania and Louisiana, are still in the process of setting up their programs, which could take 18 months or more.

Limited accessThese 15 states passed

laws permitting the use of “CBD-specific” canna-bis extracts. According to Washington, D.C.-based NORML, a pro-marijuana advocacy group, such products are high in the non-psychoactive canna-binoid CBD, while being low in THC. In many cases, the law limits use to treatment of debilitat-ing epileptic or seizure disorders, although some of the states also allow its use for cancer and other conditions. Distribution channels are strictly limited.

Non-functionalIn Texas, language in the state’s CBD-

specific law calling for a physician’s pre-scription rather than a recommendation has left the program in limbo, NORML explains, because physicians cannot legally prescribe cannabis or any schedule I substance under federal law. Federal courts have, however, previously upheld doctors’ right to make oral or written recommendations for therapeutic can-nabis use.

Louisiana, which actually legalized medical marijuana in 1991, was left with the same problem because its law called for prescriptions, and the program lay dormant until Gov. John Bel Edwards last month signed into law a comprehensive medical marijuana program that allows doctors to recommend the treatment rather than prescribe it.

Everyone elseIn Idaho, a bill that

would have estab-lished a limited access program was vetoed in August by Gov. Butch Otter. That leaves Idaho, with some of the nation’s strictest anti-marijuana laws, among nine states that currently have no medical marijuana program.

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If insurance companies are planning to cover busi-nesses that will sell medical marijuana to people in Pennsylvania, they’re keeping it quiet so far.

But at some point, plans will spring into action, said officials with insurance trade groups in the Har-risburg area.

Insurance agents are business people who un-derstand the risks involved, said Ron Gallagher, president of the Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies in Wormleysburg. “There will be people who step up and (insure marijuana busi-nesses).”

While Gallagher hasn’t heard yet from any mem-bers deciding to cover businesses linked to medical marijuana, that is typical, he added. Companies don’t want to let rivals know what they are doing. But when it does come time to insure the industry’s businesses, Gallagher said he believes insurance companies around the state will be ready.

Gallagher said he expects mutual insurance com-panies might be interested especially in farmers who will grow marijuana plants. He said mutual insurance companies have a long history with agriculture and tend to enter riskier markets before other companies.

He acknowledged, however, that some companies likely will balk at entering the marijuana in-dustry because of the stigma attached to it. But coverage of any emerging industry takes time, he added.

When it hits the market, coverage won’t look much different than coverage of other niche industries, ac-cording to Samuel Marshall, presi-dent and CEO of the Insurance Federation of Penn-sylvania, a nonprofit trade association in Harrisburg.

Companies will assess the potential liabilities, ex-amine what other states have done and rely on their experience in other lines of business, including the pharmaceutical industry, Marshall said.

“We cover other drug companies that manufacture and dispense drugs, and medical marijuana is an-other form of a drug,” he said. “I think we’ll be more than prepared to answer this niche market.”

Marshall said the insurance industry has a history of developing markets for new industries, and he doesn’t think medical marijuana will be any different.

“We’re a very market-driven business,” he said. “If a consumer wants a certain type of coverage, we will provide it.”<

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A regulatory web governs the critical role physicians will have in Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana industry.

Most important is the distinction between a prescription and a recommendation — and whether doctors are willing to assume the role the law envisions for them.

Doctors won’t prescribe marijuana to pa-tients in Pennsylvania. They will recommend it — but only if they are registered with the state.

The state’s department of health is still de-veloping a registration process and is eyeing ways to recruit and train physicians, said Corey Coleman, the department’s executive deputy secretary.

The department already has a communi-cation strategy in place to engage doctors. “It is critically important to have the physicians buy into what the law has dictated and under-stand what the goals of the law are,” Coleman said.

However, physician advocacy groups such as the Pennsylvania Medical Society argue

that little is known about marijuana’s effec-tiveness in treating medical conditions for which states are allowing people to use it. They want more research, so they have been pushing for marijuana to be reclassified under federal law, which would open the door to further study.

But with the substance approved for use in Pennsylvania, health care providers are start-ing to prepare.

The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, for example, has distributed

information about the medical marijuana bill to member hospitals, including a general im-plementation timeline and federal regulations around controlled substances, said spokes-woman Katie Byrnes.

The association also has encouraged mem-bers to discuss the program’s impact on hospi-tals and patients with their legal counsel.

“Ways in which specific providers and prac-titioners will plan for and address the new medical marijuana law is a decision to be made by individual hospitals and health systems,” Byrnes said.

Diagnosis requiredUnder state law, patients must have what

is known as a qualifying condition (see box) before they ingest medical marijuana.

That condition has to be diagnosed by a physician registered in the medical marijuana program. Patients also must be under that physician’s continuing care for the qualifying condition.

The registration process imposes several re-quirements on doctors. Registered physicians

Health conditionsPennsylvania allows people to ingest medical marijuana if they have one of the following quali-fying conditions:

• Autism• Sickle cell anemia• Cancer• HIV/AIDS• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis• Parkinson’s disease• Multiple sclerosis• Inflammatory bowel disease• Post-traumatic stress disorder• Intractable seizures• Glaucoma • Severe chronic or intractable pain of neuropathic origin or severe • chronic or intractable pain in which conventional therapeutic intervention and opioid therapy is contradicted or ineffective

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Medically focused. Efficient. Leading in research.

That’s how officials in the Pennsylvania Department of Health describe their vision for the state’s medical marijuana program.

The department has been tasked with writing regulations to implement the law and govern how the program will operate — from businesses hoping to take part to patients hoping to find relief through medi-cal marijuana.

While officials are looking at the 23 other states with medical marijuana programs to learn about challenges and best practices, their most important obligation is to follow the law as crafted by Pennsylvania legisla-tors, according to Corey Coleman, execu-tive deputy secretary for the department. Over the next six months, which is the timeline for regulations to be completed, the department plans to roll out one section per month, starting with the application process for growers and processors.

Next will come rules for dispensaries and details on the process for caregivers and patients to access the medicine. Lastly, the department will publish rules covering physician registration, which doctors will be required to follow if they want to recom-mend medical marijuana to their patients.

The regulations will be released first as proposals, allowing the department to col-lect feedback, before they are finalized.

An update on the medical marijuana program’s progress, as well as frequently asked questions, is available on the depart-ment’s website.

The program is expected to be fully op-erational within 18 to 24 months.

In addition to writing rules, the depart-ment has also formed a Bureau of Medical Marijuana, and has been looking to hire a director.

The director, who will report to Coleman,

will supervise staff responsible for imple-menting the medical marijuana program.

Officials are sorting through 123 applica-tions to find qualified candidates.

“We’ve had an overwhelming response from not just Pennsylvanians but outside of the state,” Coleman said.<


California allows medicinal use of marijuana to relieve pain for people with AIDS, cancer and other diseases.1996

Department of Health rolling out regulations

can’t have a direct or economic interest in a medical marijuana organization, and won’t be allowed to advertise their ability to certify patients to receive medical marijuana.

Physicians also will be required to let the department know of any changes in patient status, such as if the patient no longer has a qualifying condition, or if the medical marijuana is no longer a “therapeutic or palliative” option.

Any violation of the rules would be con-sidered unprofessional misconduct, and physicians could receive disciplinary action from the state Board of Medicine or the state Board of Osteopathic Medicine.

It’s unlikely that physicians will face any greater liability than they do with other drugs, according to Justin S. Moriconi, a Philadelphia-based attorney specializing in regulated cannabis.

Discussions among physicians at the medical society rarely touched on concerns about liability, according to Chuck Moran, director of media relations and public af-fairs for the society.<

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By Jason [email protected]

Industrial property owners in Pennsylvania expecting to see green — both in cannabis and cash from higher lease rates paid by medical marijuana growers and processors — will likely have to wait another year as state officials finalize regulations and sort out licensing for the new industry.

But that doesn’t mean large entities who grow marijuana in other states are not researching opportunities in the common-wealth, said industrial real estate experts and legal consultants ad-vising people in the pot business.

“The realization is that it’s coming,” said Jake Terkanian, vice president of industrial brokerage services out of CBRE Group Inc.’s Chester County office. “Compa-nies are trying to take strategic positions, but I think everyone is in the exploratory phase right now.”

A spokesman for one of the country’s leading pot growers, Colorado-based LivWell, said as much, expressing interest in Penn-sylvania but adding it’s still “too early for us.”

Heavy upfront costs — a $200,000 license fee to grow and process, plus at least $2 million in required capital under state law — is a major factor that has decision makers pumping the brakes on real estate, Terkanian said. Those high costs will “weed out” a lot of smaller players, he said.

“I think it will be well into 2017 until the hard commitments are made,” he said. “This is going to be big business and they are commit-ting big dollars over the long term, so they won’t do a deal unless there is some certainty they will get a license.”

Pennsylvania is expected to ex-ert more control over licenses, compared with some other states. Expect greater geographic disper-sal of licenses, both on the produc-tion and retail side, state officials said.

Spreading licenses across the

state, with a finite number avail-able, should ease potential spikes in lease rates.

The addition of licenses in the future could push rates up, however, said Justin Moriconi, a Philadelphia attorney with Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney. “It’s foolish to think it won’t drive rates.”

In Colorado, which is less re-strictive, demand from the mari-juana trade has been driving up rates for everyone.

“We don’t have a problem with vacancy on the industrial side. There are so many guys coming in that need the space,” said Jeff Hallberg, a principal with Lee &

Associates Denver. A plumbing business might

have been paying $6 per-square-foot for industrial space. But a marijuana business retrofitting that same space might pay triple that price, he said. If property own-ers put in the infrastructure for those growers, they might com-mand $40 per square foot.

The minimum for production facilities is generally more than 20,000 square feet, he said. Grow-ing and processing facilities often push upward of 100,000 square feet, he said. Some larger entities need a couple hundred thousand square feet, other real estate pro-fessionals said.

Moriconi is advising pot grow-ers who have started looking at Pennsylvania to consider rent-to-own and other options if they are worried about missing opportuni-ties. He’s been working with CBRE to develop a virtual marketing tool for industrial sites, both existing and under construction, to help companies with their research on Pennsylvania.

Others are suggesting investors wait because older industrial sites that can be bought on the cheap and retrofitted should still be avail-able next year.

But not every existing building

Weed producers in no rush to sign land dealsLease rates could rise, indoor farming could benefit, experts say

Industrial supplyAs growers and processors

of medical marijuana explore possible sites in Pennsylvania, they might find room in a growing industrial real estate market.

The inventory of indus-trial real estate in Central Pennsylvania, which includes Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties, stands at more than 159 million square feet as of the first quarter 2016, according to market research from CBRE Group Inc. Industrial real estate refers primarily to warehouse and distribution facilities.

There is more than 4 mil-lion square feet of industrial space under construction in Cumberland and Lebanon counties.

The vacancy rate for the quarter was 6.3 percent, according to CBRE.

Across the greater Philadelphia region, which includes the Lehigh Valley, northeast Pennsylvania, south-eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, there is more than 459 million square feet of industrial space, accord-ing to CBRE.

There is more than 14 million square feet under construction — most of that being built on a speculative basis.

The Lehigh Valley market alone has about 6.2 million square feet of industrial space under construction.

CBRE also cited completed construction of about 8.7 mil-lion square feet in the first quarter.

These maps are part of a virtual tour that CBRE Group Inc. has developed to help growers and processors iden-tify real estate options in Pennsylvania. ILLUSTRATION/SUBMITTED

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will be able to meet the power needs of marijuana production related to lighting and climate control. There also might not be enough capacity to handle water and wastewater needs.

Facilities also will be required to have seed-to-sale tracking of the medical mari-juana sold to dispensaries, and feature high levels of security and surveillance, added Robin Zellers, president of Wormleysburg-based NAI CIR. “These facilities will be very clean and highly secure.”

Despite all the safeguards, the cash-heavy marijuana business presents a sticky situation for large investors, who remain concerned about the reputational and legal risks of the marijuana industry. Those in-vestors include publicly traded real estate investment trusts and other institutional investors who control large swaths of real estate, Terkanian said.

Marijuana-related businesses might have better luck dealing with private de-velopers and private equity owners who are less risk-averse and looking for “value-added” opportunities, he said.<


Colorado and Washington state legalize recreational use of marijuana.2012

The perceptions about medical marijuana — including its per-ceived impact on employee productivity — could drive some busi-ness owners to move their companies if they are near marijuana production facilities, said Blaze Cambruzzi, COO of York-based Rock Commercial Real Estate LLC.

“Whether it will or won’t doesn’t matter. What leads someone to action is perception,” he said.

The unknown of what that type of business might attract also will have many business owners against it, he said.

He said tenants with expiring leases might attempt to impose lease restrictions on neighboring properties during negotiations over lease renewals with landlords. Tenants in the second year of a 10-year lease wouldn’t have the same lever-age.

Rules for growers, dispensaries

Medical marijuana growers and pro-cessors may grow, store, harvest or pro-cess medical marijuana only in an indoor, enclosed, secure facility that includes electronic locking systems, electronic surveillance and other features required by the Department of Health under the new state law.

Retail dispensaries may not oper-ate on the same site as growing and processing facilities, and they must purchase cannabis from one of the com-monwealth’s licensed growers/proces-sors.

Dispensaries, which will pay an initial $30,000 permit fee for each location, cannot operate within 1,000 feet of the property line of a public, private or paro-chial school or a day care center.

State law provides for the issuance of 25 grower/processor licenses and 50 dispensary licenses. Each dispensary licensee may operate in up to three loca-tions.

However, some of the licenses will go to academic research centers, which will be able to grow, process and dispense medical marijuana. Those centers could secure up to eight of the grower/proces-sor licenses and eight of the dispensary licenses. Those centers could open up to six dispensaries.

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Imagine a busy Starbucks cof-fee shop, but one that mostly deals in cash.

Then replace the lattes with cannabis and the coffee-sipping customers with medical marijuana cardholders.

This is how Jeff Hallberg, a prin-cipal and commercial real estate professional with Lee & Associates Denver, describes medical mari-juana dispensaries.

He also compares them to 7-Eleven convenience stores, but with barred windows and round-the-clock security professionals, restricted access and heavy video surveillance. Some real estate professionals say dispensaries are more secure than bank buildings, which also work well as marijua-na-related businesses because of their vaults.

It’s an industry where every plant has to be tagged and bar-coded, every gram of final prod-uct accounted for in every store.

Many dispensaries have a handful of “budtenders” who can explain each strain of marijuana and other products sold to consumers.

The typical dispensary is 800 to 2,500 square feet with good retail exposure. It might be in a strip mall or other high-traffic area.

In Colorado, where the industry is consolidating and larger players are controlling more of the licens-es, many of the dispensaries also are run by growers, Hallberg said. “These businesses are as busy as a Starbucks.”

Some dispensaries are doing so much business that they have to buy from other growers, said Hallberg, who primarily works in three Colorado markets, including Denver. “Supply can be an issue sometimes.”

For the record, there are more marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks or McDonald’s locations in some states.

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Oregon legalizes recreational use of marijuana. Pennsylvania Senate approves bill to legalize medical marijuana

By Roger [email protected]

Under legislation signed by Pennsylva-nia Gov. Tom Wolf in April, patients who are under a physician’s care for the treat-ment of a serious medical condition will have access to medical marijuana from designated state dispensaries.

What will this mean for workplace drug-testing programs? Human resources expert Karen Young, president of HR Reso-lutions LLC in Lower Paxton Township, offers advice on how companies may be affected by the new law.

Q: Up until now, what were the rules/laws regarding workplace testing

for marijuana use? Was it permissible across the board, or were there limita-tions on who could be tested and under what circumstances?

A: Generally, the “rule” had been based upon the employer’s policy and hand-

book. For example, it may be included in post-offer (pre-employment), post-accident, reasonable suspicion and/or

random, depending upon which of these segments the employer included in their drug and alcohol (D/A).

Now, if a company has commercial mo-tor vehicle operators, they may fall under the Department of Transportation testing guidelines if/when a commercial drivers’ license or driver qualification file must be maintained (using vehicles for commercial purposes which have a gross value weight in excess of 10,000 pounds).

Do you expect any changes?I would anticipate some change to

the “general” practice except in safety-sensitive positions — i.e. an outside sales person who must operate a car in order to do their business; a commercial motor ve-hicle operator, mechanics — any position in which life and limb is at risk of injury in the performance of their job. An example of a position that might not be treated that way: customer service rep — they can, most likely, still answer phones, take or-ders, greet customers, etc.

Having said that, just like any prescrip-tion medication, the employee should

advise the employer so that an interactive dialogue can occur regarding the possibil-ity that they may not be able to perform some of the essential functions of their job.

Would medical marijuana now be treated like any other controlled substance as far as testing and employment are con-cerned? Would it be permissible in non-safety-oriented jobs with a prescription and doctor’s note?

Absolutely — it should be no different than a prescription for Percocet.

Are there any evolving recommendations or best practices going out to employers in advance of the new law?

Absolutely.Don’t jump the gun and change your

policies now unless it makes sense, from a business standpoint, to make the change now.

Don’t be afraid of the new law — medi-cal marijuana should be viewed no differ-ently than prescription other pain medica-tion and/or narcotics.

Do be sure that you have open lines

of communication before and after the regulations so that your employees feel safe coming forward and discussing their personal situations with you.

Do be sure that you properly evaluate your positions and determine which ones may be considered “safety sensitive.”

When in doubt, after the final regulation is in force, consult with the appropriate professionals to be sure you remain com-pliant.<

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By the numbersThe medical marijuana industry is new to Pennsylvania. But it has grown steadily in other states since California first legalized the drug’s medicinal use in 1996. Here are stats rounded up by Business Journal researcher Alaine Keisling.

Estimated number of cannabis businesses in the U.S. in 2016:

Medical dispensaries/retailers:

3,400-4,700Infused-product manufacturers:

900-1,300Wholesale cultivators:

2,500-4,500Testing labs

90-120

Nearly 90 percent of dispensaries, retailers,

manufacturers and wholesale cultivators report they are

at least breaking even or are profitable.

SOURCE: MARIJUANA BUSINESS DAILY

BUSINESSES PATIENTS

ProCon.org’s Medical Marijuana project estimates there

are more than 1.2 million medical marijuana

patients in the U.S. as of March 1. Based on the number

of registrants in Delaware, New Jersey and New York,

Pennsylvania could expect to see 2,211 participants, or 0.17 per 1,000 residents.

Among all states allowing medical and/or recreational

usage of marijuana, the average usage rate is closer to

8.06 per 1,000 residents, which would trans-

late into 103,188 Pennsylvanians.

SOURCE: PROCON.ORG

•••Some reasons given for low registration in neighbor-

ing states include requiring physicians to undergo a state-approved training course in New York, and high prices coupled with low THC content in New Jersey.

SOURCE: MARIJUANA BUSINESS DAILY

SALES

ArcView Market Research, a leading marijuana industry

investment and research firm, found legal cannabis sales

jumped 17 percent to $5.4 billion, in 2015

and could grow by 25 percent this year to reach

$6.7 billion.

SOURCE: FORTUNE, FEBRUARY 2016

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Number of U.S. banks and credit unions serving cannabis companies:

FINANCE

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301

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Between April 2015 and March 2016, the state of

Colorado collected more than $18 million in

taxes, licenses and fees from medical marijuana business-

es, up nearly 15 percent from the previous year.

For both medical and recreational marijuana, the state

collected more than $125 million in taxes, licens-

es and fees, a roughly 55.4 percent increase.

SOURCE: COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

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TAXES

In 2014, California’s 1,623 registered dispensaries reported $570 million in taxable income, with

$49.5 million in tax due to the state.

SOURCE: CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION

INCOME

A mature marijuana industry could generate up to

$28 billion in tax revenues for federal, state and

local governments, including $7 billion in federal

revenue: $5.5 billion from business taxes and

$1.5 billion from income and payroll taxes.

SOURCE: TAX FOUNDATION

In January, the first month for recreational marijuana sales

in Oregon, dispensaries sold at least $14 million

in recreational marijuana, remitting more than $3.48 million in taxes to the state, exceeding state econo-

mists’ projections for the entire year. Oregon’s medical

marijuana is untaxed.

SOURCE: OREGON LIVE LLC

Statistics on the 97,938 medical marijuana patients in Arizona as of April 2016:

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pain as the qualifying condition.

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My work on improving clients’ performance frequently puts me in environments where morale is poor. Poor performance is often rooted in poor morale and the manage-ment behaviors that affect mo-rale. Morale and performance can be improved over time, but not without sig-nificant changes on the part of management.

Management must recognize that performance is linked to morale and that morale is man-agement’s responsibility. Poor morale is not the fault of first-line employees; it is the fault of man-agement all the way to the top. All too many managers don’t seem to get that.

Too many management teams

treat poor morale as an environ-mental condition like the weather, something to accommodate rather than something to man-age. Or they blame bad morale on “bad apples.” It doesn’t seem to occur to them that if bad apples are hired, it is up to management to monitor that and replace them. If the people hired were “good apples” when they joined the business, it doesn’t seem to occur to managers that they might have had some role in turning good apples into bad ones.

Trying to improve morale without management accepting responsibility for it is like trying to cure an alcoholic who won’t admit he has a problem. Accept-ing responsibility is the first step in a long program.

To improve morale, it is im-portant to learn what employees think. That can be accomplished with an employee survey, nor-

mally an entirely new idea in a business with poor morale. A well-designed survey can bring out employees’ perception of working conditions, their direct supervision, higher management, pay, benefits, safety and more.

Yes, employee surveys will bring out some general belly-aching about seemingly trivial issues. Nevertheless, it is impor-tant not to dismiss responses too easily. Survey responses should be carefully reviewed by the top management team and discussed with other managers and super-visors to give the responses the best possible evaluation and to set priorities for improvement.

An employee survey is only as good as the actions that it stimu-lates. Employee feedback in a business with poor morale can be negative, personal, and embar-rassingly correct. Management must be prepared to accept raw,

sometimes painful feedback with no hint of reprisals. Shooting the messenger is one of the behaviors that create poor morale in the first place.

Some things that come out in employee surveys are easily dealt with if management is really seri-ous about improvement. One example would be feedback that most communication is criticism. In many businesses, employees know that if the boss wants to speak to them, it generally means a verbal trip to the woodshed. In businesses with great morale, managers go out of their way to ensure there are more positive than negative encounters with employees. That is something you can start today.

Employees often feel that their ideas are ignored or, worse, that they run the risk of being ridiculed for their ideas. Those are morale-killers. In businesses with great

morale, managers listen to em-ployees’ ideas, even those that don’t make much sense. They nev-er make an employee feel devalued or stupid. If the idea isn’t one that can be implemented, they take time to explain why and to thank the employee for making the effort. That too can be started today.

Other changes take time, but if priorities are set and an ac-tion plan is developed, it can be shared with employees. They know everything can’t be ad-dressed instantaneously. If they see a plan they will know they are being heard. That will make an immediate difference.

If morale is poor on your watch, take responsibility and get started improving it.

•Richard Randall is founder and presi-dent of management-consulting firm New Level Advisors in Springettsbury Township, York County. Email him at [email protected].

18 www.CPBJ.com Central Penn Business Journal June 3, 2016OPINION

L awmakers and patient advocates fought

hard to bring medical marijuana to

Pennsylvania. And they deserved to cel-

ebrate in April when their goal became law.

While the new law is a salve for patients

who expect medicinal cannabis to relieve

their suffering, the picture is more compli-

cated for the business community, as we

discovered in putting together this special

issue of the Business Journal.

There are opportunities to invest in medi-

cal marijuana businesses and to serve them,

whether as landlords, contractors or pro-

fessional advisers. At the very least, they

will need lawyers, accountants and insurers

versed in Pennsylvania law.

But there are risks. Despite efforts to re-

duce their liability, banks and credit unions

are acutely aware of the downsides of doing

business with companies

serving a product that is

illegal under federal law.

Landlords, meanwhile,

might find that existing

tenants balk at having

marijuana-related busi-

ness next door or in the

same industrial park.

And, of course, every company will have

to reexamine its policies around controlled

substances to accommodate employees tak-

ing medicinal marijuana.

We are confident company leaders will

navigate a successful path. But we are con-

cerned about another potential outcome:

Pressure to expand ac-

cess to medical marijuana

and, perhaps, legalize the

substance for recreational

use in Pennsylvania.

It will be hard for law-

makers to resist the temp-

tation, especially when

they hear about constitu-

ents who have been helped by the new

law — or when they hear about shortages

of product or a lack of doctors approved to

recommend its use.

The demand for further legislative rem-

edies will be strong, as will the lure of tax

revenue. In our view, however, lawmakers

should not make any changes until they

get a full picture of how the law is playing

out. Is it causing problems for employers?

Is it contributing to the growth of the state’s

economy? Are there any negative social con-

sequences arising from greater access to a

controlled substance? The opioid epidemic

is a reminder of unintended consequences.

While other states may offer an example

and tweaks may be necessary, the experience

here in Pennsylvania will be the best guide for

lawmakers contemplating additional chang-

es to our new medical marijuana law.<

Resist pressure to tinker with medical marijuana law

Bad morale is a management issue all the way to the top

Lawmakers should not make any changes

until they get a full picture of how the law is playing out.

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“I had to tell him we had to raise prices 11 or 12 cents a roll. He told me, ‘you raise our prices, and I’m going to take all my business away.’”

Carl Vizzi, president and CEO of York Wallcoverings Inc.

“I think it will be well into 2017 until the hard commitments are made. This is going to be big business and they are committing big dollars over the long term, so they won’t do a deal unless there is some certainty they will get a license.”

Jake Terkanian, vice president for CBRE Group Inc.

“It is critically important to have the physicians buy into what the law has dictated and understand what the goals of the law are.”

Corey Coleman, executive deputy secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Health



Federal laws that classify marijuana as an illegal drug pose a challenge to attorneys looking to advise marijuana-related busi-nesses in Pennsylvania.

But the Disciplinary Board of the Su-preme Court of Pennsylvania is trying to make it easier: It is proposing a change to its rules of professional conduct.

The board said it has received “numer-ous” questions regarding advice to clients looking into the marijuana business.

Under Rule 1.2 of the Rules of Profes-sional Conduct, lawyers are barred from counseling or assisting a client in criminal conduct. Although medical marijuana is a legal drug in Pennsylvania, it remains illegal under federal law.

As a result, according to the board, any Pennsylvania lawyer “arguably is prohib-

ited” from conducting activities pertaining to the marijuana business, such as negotiat-ing contracts for the “purchase, distribution or sale” of marijuana.

A proposed change to the rule would make an exception to allow a lawyer to counsel a client on any conduct that is “permitted by the law of the state where it takes place.”

However, the rule change also calls on lawyers to counsel clients on legal

consequences of any other applicable laws.

If a lawyer were counseling a financial institution doing business with a medical-marijuana dispensary, for example, the lawyer would have to make it clear that any violations of federal law could result in money-laundering charges.

The board is accepting comments on the proposed rule change through June 3.<

Panel proposes rule change for lawyers advising medical marijuana businesses

Gov. Tom Wolf, center, grasps the hands of advocates Latrisha Bentch, left, and Dana Ulrich on April 17 in the capitol rotunda in Harrisburg after signing a bill that legalized marijuana for medical use. FILE PHOTO/AMY SPANGLER

Looking aheadMuch remains unknown about what the medical marijuana industry

is going to look like in Pennsylvania. But whatever shape it takes is likely to change in the years ahead. The Central Penn Business Journal asked some observers to offer predictions about the industry in five years.

“The Pennsylvania medical cannabis market will expand to meet the needs of a growing patient population that will open up even more opportunities for existing enterprises and entrepreneurs to enter the space, particularly with a rescheduling decision on the horizon within that period.”Justin Moriconi, a Philadelphia attorney with Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd.

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“Assuming Pennsylvania experiences similar growth over time (as Colorado), 12 million square feet over 15 years would amount to 800,000 square feet per year of absorption. This type of absorption of space would be similar to the scale of the e-commerce activity our market has experienced over the past five to 10 years. There is no reason to believe this type of growth would not occur in Pennsylvania, unless the regulations prove to be more onerous in Pennsylvania versus Colorado.”Jake Terkanian, vice president of industrial brokerage services for CBRE Group Inc.

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“To predict where medical marijuana will be in five years in Pennsylvania, we can look to other states with more mature medical marijuana statutes. In almost all cases, state governments have set parameters and legitimate businesses have been able to grow and flourish within those parameters, while providing additional tax revenues to the state. I suspect that five years from now, that is where Pennsylvania will be and medical marijuana will be a non-issue.”Michael Wishnow, senior vice president for marketing and communica-tions for the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association

— Compiled by Business Journal staff

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MANUFACTURING

Carl Vizzi struck a deal to sell a majority stake in York Wallcoverings Inc. to High Road Capital Partners in March 2015. Vizzi owned the company for more than 35 years.PHOTO/SUBMITTED

This wasn’t just any company.

Carl Vizzi purchased York

Wallcoverings Inc. in 1980,

when he was 31. Looking back on

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to start looking for a buyer. That

decision did not come easily. “Our

company was like our fourth child,”

the father of three said.

But as Vizzi told a gathering of the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors’ Central Pennsylvania branch, he was convinced by 2014 that he would soon need to send that child off in a new direction.

Central Penn Business Journal was media partner for the AM&AA event, held at the West Shore Country Club, where Vizzi and executive vice president P.J. Delaye talked about the challenges, rewards and lessons of the acquisition process.

In March 2015, York Wallcoverings struck a deal with High Road Capital Partners. The New York-based private equity firm purchased a majority stake in the 120-year-old manufacturer of wallpaper and related products. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed.

Why would president and CEO Vizzi make such a move, when 2014 was the company’s strongest year ever — with more

than $100 million in sales worldwide? Times were good, but times were changing.Electronic commerce was transforming the landscape,

presenting opportunities but also challenges.“You could have asked me what Amazon was a few years

ago, and I would have said it was a river in South America,” he quipped about the e-retailer.

Then, too, Vizzi was thinking about his own future. His father had his first heart attack at 59, and died at 69, Vizzi recalled.

“I enjoyed what we did. It was challenging and a lot of fun,” Vizzi, 68, said. “It was a family business. It wasn’t grueling.”

But for 35 years, “it was very consuming,” he added.

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Central Pennsylvania isn’t just a hub for logistics activity, it is a dominant hub.

First quarter market statistics from CBRE Group Inc. show that the six-county region (Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York) boasts an inventory of 159.4 million square feet of space dedicated to warehouse and distribution, including some overlap with light manufacturing, assembly, packaging and related activities.

No other region even comes close in the eastern part of the state: The midstate nearly harbors as much square feet as the Philadelphia (111.6 million) and Northeast (50.8 million) regions combined, accord-ing to CBRE research. Its nearest eastern competitor, the Lehigh Valley region, has 67.9 million square feet. Head west, and the contrast is even more profound; the greater Pittsburgh market has about 140 million square feet.

And Central Pennsylvania is not about to lose its edge.

With an additional 4 million square feet under construction in the region, what factors continue to make it attractive to prospective builders? What chal-lenges does the sector face? Are some counties more attractive than others?

The simple answer: Location, location, location. But of course, there’s more to it than that.

We spoke with three area observers who weighed in on the warehouse economy’s strengths and weak-nesses: Blaze Cambruzzi, COO at York-based Rock Commercial Real Estate LLC; Cumberland Area Eco-nomic Development Corp. CEO Jonathan Bowser; and David Black, president and CEO of the Harrisburg Regional Chamber and Capital Region Economic Development Corp. Here are some of their insights.

1See the big pictureFirst, why come to the midstate at all? The key

numbers shouldn’t surprise anyone: 78, 81, 83 and 76 — as in the region’s confluence of interstate high-ways, and their connection to many of the nation’s major markets.

As Black puts it, “companies look at the maps on a macro scale.”

“They want to be in the mid-Atlantic,” he said, and that puts South Central Pennsylvania at an advantage.

“You could drop a pin anywhere in the Susque-hanna Valley and be within a four-hour drive of 45 million people,” Cambruzzi said, including Philadel-phia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, all of New Jersey and much of New York.

“That’s really unprecedented,” he added.Move farther north, and you’re headed away from

some of the big population centers. Move south or east, and you’re closer but the prices start to climb as

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Logistical dominanceSpace dedicated to warehouse and distribution:

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Seeking the right fitFor Vizzi, shopping for a suitor

at a time of success was ideal, as it strengthened the company’s posi-tion going into any negotiations.

“We were very selective,” Vizzi said. “This wasn’t a distressed sale.”

Vizzi and his closest advisers al-so didn’t want to worry managers and staff by disclosing early talks.

“Confidentiality was extra-im-portant,” Delaye added. “But leaks happen.”

Still, those exploring the op-tions quietly went about their work, spending months narrowing potential candidates from dozens down to seven, Vizzi explained. Then seven became two.

One was High Road. The other, which he did not name, also had offices in New York.

Years of evolutionWhat York Wallcoverings did

not want was a company looking to make “a strategic purchase,” which might lead to a breakup after the sale. That led it away from poten-

tial buyers in its evolving industry.York Wallcoverings was found-

ed in 1895, and much has changed since then.

For generations, Vizzi said, “If anybody had any money at all, they had wallpaper on their walls.”

By the 1950s, however, the evolution of the paint roller had pushed wallpaper out of favor, though not permanently.

“It’s a fashion-oriented item,” he said. “It ebbs and flows.”

Today, Vizzi said, wallpaper is popular again, “especially on the upper end of the market.”

“Our industry shrank, but we were one of the last men standing,” Vizzi said.

At the time Vizzi began looking to sell, York Wallcoverings was enjoying high-profile success, buoyed in part by licensed prod-ucts — and in particular its Room-Mates line of peel-and-stick deco-rations, especially those depicting characters from the hit Disney movie “Frozen.”

Things weren’t always so good.Thirty-six years ago, Vizzi was

working at another company in Hanover, while York Wallcover-ings was “on the brink of bank-ruptcy.”

“He wasn’t happy in the job he

was in, and it was changing his personality,” wife Brenda told the AM&AA audience.

Vizzi had an idea. He wanted to buy York Wallcoverings, but he didn’t have the money.

Brenda Vizzi backed her hus-band, saying they could sell their home and live in an apartment if that’s what it took — “whatever we need to do to keep a roof over our heads and food in our mouths.”

Vizzi found a receptive audi-ence in John Kegler, whose family had led the business for several decades. Kegler was then close to retirement.

“I guess I was like his long-lost son,” Vizzi said.

Kegler, who was on the board of a local bank, worked with Vizzi to secure a loan so he could buy a company that was doing $4 mil-lion in business each year.

The new owner had his work cut out for him. One key account, he learned, accounted for a big chunk of York Wallcoverings’ busi-ness, and the company was taking a loss on every sale. So he needed to raise prices.

In a two-seater plane, Vizzi flew to New Jersey to make his first sales call. It didn’t go well.

“I had to tell him we had to raise

prices 11 or 12 cents a roll,” Vizzi recalled. “He told me, ‘you raise our prices, and I’m going to take all my business away.’”

Vizzi stood his ground. The cus-tomer did, too.

“It was brutal,” Vizzi said. Lessons were learned. What

Vizzi hadn’t known going in was that the customer had also been interested in purchasing the com-pany, and apparently was still stinging from losing out.

Nonetheless, the relationship was later repaired, and the two firms still do “several million dol-lars” of business together.

Perhaps more importantly, Vizzi and his team managed to broaden York’s customer base.

Anatomy of a dealFast forward three decades, to a

$100 million business looking for a buyer or partner to carry forward its success.

“They were regular guys, straight shooters,” Vizzi said, praising High Road’s flexibility on many issues. “They came across as caring about our people, our company, my needs, Brenda’s needs.”

That didn’t mean it would be a cakewalk. The work involved in selling a company meant answer-

ing lots of questions from High Road — right up until the last min-ute before the sale was concluded.

“It was very intense, and under-standably so,” Vizzi said. “We just didn’t expect it to be so complex.”

And then the deal happened.“We told the whole company

together. It was one of those ‘on the dock’ speeches,” Vizzi said.

High Road officials came from New York to meet the staff. “I think that was a good thing,” Delaye said, adding that the relationship remains beneficial.

“In the area of day-to-day op-erations, they’re really hands-off,” Delaye said.

At the same time, “they’re teaching us how to be more disci-plined” in many areas, particularly in financial matters, he added.

Vizzi — who had been con-templating retirement — has yet to step away. He appreciates that his presence “means a lot” to em-ployees who felt strongly about working for a family-owned busi-ness, but he encourages them to find strength by looking in the mirror.

“I don’t think they would have been interested in purchasing us at all if we didn’t have a real strong team,” he said.<


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land availability goes down. And, Cambruzzi noted, the mountain-ous region immediately west of here leaves fewer spaces for large facilities.

“We’re nestled in a sweet spot,” he said.

As for price, the region is cer-tainly competitive: $4.17 per square foot per year is the aver-age asking price for leases in the midstate, CBRE found, vs. $4.26 in Southeastern Pennsylvania and $4.45 in the Lehigh Valley.

Northeast Pennsylvania comes in lower, at $3.62. But as Cam-bruzzi notes, the midstate has another distinct advantage over some areas to the north and east: less disruption due to weather — particularly snow days, which don’t just tie up trucks but make it harder for warehouse employees to get to work.

2Cumberland and York ruleBack to comparisons.

Cumberland County alone has

nearly as much space (47.9 mil-lion square feet) as the four-county Northeast region (50.8 million). In the midstate, York is a close second with 45.7 million square feet.

3Don’t count the others outThe dominance of two

counties shouldn’t be taken as a reflection of what is happening with their neighbors.

Lancaster County has nearly 35 million square feet of space, although, as Cambruzzi notes, legacy facilities are still a major presence both there, and in parts of York County.

Lebanon County, with its 4.6 million square feet, has seen much growth in recent years as infrastruc-ture blossomed around the I-81/78 split in Union Township and other warehouse hotspots across the re-gion get more crowded.

4A capital perspective Dauphin County, with 14.2

million square feet, is a major play-er whose contribution transcends the amount of space.

“Dauphin was early in the ware-house trend along I-81 up to the

I-78 split. There are more ware-houses than meet the eye,” Black said.

Centers on Fulling Mill Road ca-ter to companies like TE Connec-tivity and Phoenix Contacts. The county also hosts Fed Ex and UPS hubs, which also use Harrisburg International Airport, he said.

“Many people forget how busy HIA is at night loading the very large Fed Ex and UPS planes that are in and out of there. Obviously this drives a lot of truck traffic,” Black added.

The county’s intermodal advan-tage also extends to railroads, with huge Norfolk Southern facilities, in particular the Rutherford Yard in Swatara Township.

So in Black’s view, Dauphin was the region’s original logistics hub, and was first to approach build-out.

“These newer 1 million square foot-plus facilities are being built down I-83, up I-78 and I-81 be-cause there is available land there,” he added.

5So, about CarlisleThe area around Cumber-

land County’s seat is fertile with

logistics centers on and around Allen Road, notably the Amazon.Com facility. Nearby, the 2-mil-lion-square-foot Goodman Birt-cher warehouse project, which straddles three Cumberland County municipalities, is under construction.

But, Bowser pointed out, a shift in focus is underway.

“Allen Road is pretty much satu-rated,” he said.

More facilities are starting to appear farther out on I-81, in the Newville and Shippensburg areas, he said.

For businesses whose needs are less time-sensitive, that’s not a ma-jor concern. But Bowser expects those really looking to capitalize on short lead times to major east-ern markets are more likely to seek spots around Carlisle and eastern Cumberland County rather than farther west.

Likewise, geographic orienta-tion plays a role for surrounding areas, Cambruzzi explained.

With easy highway access to the Baltimore/Washington area, York County is a natural destina-tion for firms with an eye on those markets, he pointed out.

6Assembling a workforceOne of the challenges in

more rural areas — and to a cer-tain extent for Cumberland Coun-ty generally — is building up a workforce for logistics facilities when those developments are in areas where affordable housing and public transportation are in short supply, Bowser noted.

That’s one of the reasons his agency has worked with Capi-tal Area Transit on tailoring bus routes to connect Amazon and other Allen Road facilities with Harrisburg and West Shore com-munities where many workers live.

Another challenge to recruit-ment is relatively low unemploy-ment, though Cambruzzi pointed out that it’s also a sector that has been largely automated, and workers can be recruited from a diverse range of fields with-out extensive re-training. And he believes the region’s workforce stacks up well in terms of wag-es, availability and skills against neighboring areas.

“York, Lancaster, Lebanon, Harrisburg all are very, very strong markets,” Cambruzzi said.<

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A lot of energy is put into maintaining good relationships with leading technolo-gists, tons of research and development, trial and error. Most of all, commitment to stretching your thought processes to well

beyond its limits. I’m reminded of a great quote from Albert Einstein: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Warfel Construction has active social media feeds. What benefit does this bring to the business?

Social media allows us to reach cur-

rent and potential clients through the channels they use every day. There are so many people using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, from C-level executives who will choose a construc-tion manager for their next project to new college graduates with engineering de-grees. Social media gives us an avenue to engage our audience on a more intimate level and develop better top-of-mind awareness.

Who would you like to collaborate with, and why?

I would love to collaborate with (global design firm) HOK, maybe an airport or stadium, something that would stretch my comfort zone. A project of this magnitude would be a great challenge, but completely rewarding.

— Jennifer Deinlein,

contributing writer

About Richard CarterRichard Carter, 47, is a relative newcomer to Warfel Construction Co., having joined

the company in 2013. He has more than 25 years of experience in the architectural and interior design industry, focusing on technol-ogy. Prior to Warfel, he was a project/IT/building information modeling manager at Cornerstone Design-Architects.

Carter has an associate degree in architectural technology from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. A Lancaster resident, Carter enjoys spending time with his wife, Tina, and daughters Alyssa, Amberly, Briana and Claire.

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CONSTRUCTIONWagman Construction Inc. of

York recognized Dwight Burk for 50 years of field operations service within its heavy civil field opera-tions.

DESIGNATIONSThe International Association

of Privacy Professionals named Devin J. Chwastyk a certified in-formation privacy professional. He is chairman of the privacy and data security group with McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC in Har-risburg.

•The Pennsylvania Department

of State named Danielle Stehman a registered architect. She is em-ployed with LSC Design Inc. in York.

EDUCATIONIrving Consumer Products Inc.,

which manufactures Scotties facial tissues, gave fifth-grade students from Mazie Gable Elementary School in Red Lion the grand prize in their annual Trees Rock video contest. After a national vote, the school was selected to receive $10,000 to use toward a sustain-able project. In their man-on-the-street-style video, students of all ages throughout the school were interviewed and asked to share why they believed trees are so im-portant. Teacher Carrie Lankford led the project. The school hopes to use the winnings to further their efforts to create an outdoor class-room and open green space for students.

•The U.S. Environmental Pro-

tection Agency named Dickinson College the 2015-16 Individual Conference Champion of the Col-lege & University Green Power Challenge for using more green power than any other school for the seventh year in a row. Dickin-son uses 18 million kilowatt-hours of green power, representing 91 percent of the school’s annual electricity usage. Green power is zero-emissions electricity that is generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, eligible biomass and low-impact hydro.

GOVERNMENTThe U.S. Environmental Protec-

tion Agency named the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania No. 26 on its National Top 100 list of green power users. Twenty-nine percent

of the commonwealth’s usage, or 243.98 kilowatts, was from green power, primarily wind. Pennsyl-vania is the highest-ranking state government on the list.

LAW ENFORCEMENTThe Central Pennsylvania Chap-

ter of ASIS International named Detective Matthew Dotts of the Derry Township Police Depart-ment its Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. He is a cyber-crimes expert and frequently assists private-sector security with dif-ficult technology issues. Richard W. Carpenter, vice president of operations with Information Net-work Associates in Susquehanna Township, was named Security Professional of the Year. He has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement and private-sector security.

MANUFACTURINGGeorgia-based National Orna-

mental and Miscellaneous Metals Association gave Hess Ornamen-tal Iron Inc. of Red Lion a 2016 Gold Ernest Weimann Top Job award in the nonforged ferrous interior railings category for its interior railing work for The First Post restaurant in Springettsbury Township. The project featured steel castings with a gold antiqued finish and bronze handrails. Com-petition winners were determined by votes from more than 600 peers in the ornamental metals industry.

ACCOUNTINGEast Pennsboro Township-

based Brown Schultz Sheridan & Fritz named Kelly Goodling a small business accounting ser-vices associate. She has 10 years of public accounting experience.

•KPMG LLP’s Harrisburg office

named Jodi B. Ganster, Jacob S. Fulton and Jeremy Orient tax managers. Fulton and Orient were senior associates. Arlene Webb, Abigail K. Aungst, Grace Hanft, Amber M. Jewell and Natasha Romero were named audit man-agers. They were senior associ-ates. Katie Boswell was named an advisory manager. She was a lead specialist.

ASSOCIATIONSYork-based Manufacturers’

Association named Amanda King a senior human resources rep-resentative. She is founder and principal of PeopleSavvy HR Group Inc. and was director of human resources for Red Lion Controls Inc. She will staff the association’s member HR hotline

and review and develop policies, handbooks and programs.

•Swatara Township-based

Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medi-cal Association elected Dr. Jeffery J. Dunkelberger speaker of its House of Del-egates. He is a family physician with Enola Fam-ily Practice and a team physician with East Pennsboro Area School District. He also is a delegate to the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medi-cal Association and the American Osteopathic Association and a vet-eran of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of Penn State and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

•Washington, DC-based Nation-

al Association of Home Builders named Mark Stanley to its le-gal action com-mittee. He is a lawyer with Har-r i s b u r g - b a s e d McNees and focuses his practice on real estate law, including zon-ing, land use and land develop-ment. He has a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and a law degree from the University of Dayton.

BANKING/FINANCEIndiana County-based S&T

Bank named Christie Eachus and Laura Combs community bank-ing managers with its Integrity Bank division. Eachus will work from the Oregon Pike office. She has been a sales officer, branch relationship officer and financial service representative. Combs will work from the downtown York of-fice. She has more than 20 years of experience in financial planning, residential mortgage lending and consumer lending.

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Shippensburg-based Orrstown Bank named Cheryl Howard vice president and commercial and in-dustrial relationship manager. She has more than 25 years of bank-ing experience and was employed with First National Bank of Penn-sylvania. Charles “Chip” Wasson was named senior vice president and regional senior loan officer. He has been a banker for 26 years, most recently with FNB. They will focus on commercial and indus-trial lending and be based in the Swatara Township office. Adam

Althouse, Tom Cislo and Bran-don Leaman were named vice presidents and commercial and industrial rela-tionship manag-ers, based in the Fruitville Pike office in Lan-caster County. Althouse was employed with BB&T and National Penn Bank; Cislo, who has more than 36 years of experience, was employed with BB&T and Susquehanna Bank; and Leaman was employed with BB&T, Susquehanna Bank and Metro Bank.

•York Township-based Peoples-

Bank named John “Russ” Ford III a mortgage loan originator. He has more than 30 years of experi-ence and was a senior mortgage consultant with Atlantic Home Equity. He is a graduate of Essex Community College and the Uni-versity of Baltimore. Angela King was named a vice president and small business banking officer for the Maryland region. She has more

than 15 years of experience, most recently as a vice president and business banker with PNC Bank. She is a graduate of Carver Center for Arts and Technology and Essex Community College.

CONSTRUCTIONSpring Garden Township-based

Graham Architectural Products named Brian Sourber a buyer. He will focus on purchasing glass materials. He was employed in inventory management with Con-tinental Glass, and before that in production planning and buying with Graham. Anne Smith was named a production planner and scheduler. She will handle mate-rial coordination and planning, as well as organizing intra-facility transfers. She was a senior staff accountant.

GOVERNMENTPennsylvania Department of

Conservation and Natural Re-sources named Josh Swartley manager of Delaware Canal State

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Honors, designations and recognitions

AWARDS

Althouse Cislo

Dunkelberger

Ford

Goodling

Howard

Amanda King

Angela King

Leaman

Stanley

Wasson

Park complex, a 60-mile his-toric canal and tow path along the Delaware River in Bucks and Northampton counties. He has been with the agency since 1994 and was manager of Neshaminy State Park in Bucks County. He has a bachelor’s degree in recreation from Lock Haven University. Rick Dalton was named manager of Tuscarora State Park complex in Schuylkill County. He was man-ager of Delaware Canal.

HEALTH CARESouth Middleton Township-

based Stoken Wagner Ophthal-mic Associates named Dr. Mel-vin E. Wagner a partner. He is an ophthalmologist specializing in cataract, cornea and refractive surgery. He was in the military. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemis-try from Franklin & Marshall Col-lege, a master’s degree in chemis-try from the University of Florida in

Gainesville and a medical degree from the Uniformed Services Uni-versity of the Health Sciences.

INSURANCESpringettsbury Township-

based McConkey Insurance & Benefits named Caroline Simok a client service c o o r d i n a t o r trainee with its benefits division. She has a bach-elor’s degree in elementary education from Mill-ersville University. April N. Eyet was named an associate consul-tant with the division. She was a client service coordinator. Lisa M. Farrell was named supervisor of the select division. She was a client service agent in the commercial lines division.

LAWYork-based CGA Law Firm

named Rebecca M. Shanaman an attorney. She has more than 12 years of experi-ence in real es-tate and business law, most recent-

ly with Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP in Chicago. She has a bach-elor’s degree from LaSalle Univer-sity and a law degreer from Loyola University in Chicago.

•West Earl Township-based Sax-

ton & Stump named Dan E. Sha-piro a senior medical consultant and director of physician health. He will help cli-ents reduce stress brought on by a lawsuit, making them more effec-tive witnesses. He has more than 22 years of clinical psychology experience and is vice dean of faculty affairs and admin-istration with Penn State College of Medicine. He has a degree in psy-chology and film from Vassar College and a master’s degree and doctorate in clinical and health psychology from the University of Florida.

MANUFACTURINGPenn Town-

ship-based El-sner Engineering Works Inc. named Mike Lynch a sales engineer, specializing in the

medical disposables market.

MARKETINGLancaster-based Godfrey

named Holland Baldrige an as-sociate account manager. She will help imple-ment integrated marketing com-munication pro-grams. She was a marketing as-sistant at Winroc-SPI. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Temple University.

NONPROFITSHarrisburg-based Vision Re-

sources of Central Pennsylvania named Scott Moyer a produc-tion operations supervisor. He was employed with the city of Lebanon and spent 21 years with the Hershey Co.

FEDERAL LIENS FILEDLANCASTER COUNTY

New Creations Transport Inc.; 1140 S. State St., Suite 4, Ephrata, PA 17522; amount: $51,969

Witmer’s Citgo Station; 1955 Columbia Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603; amount: $2,016

IVS LLC; 2250 Lincoln Highway E., Lancaster, PA 17602; amount: $2,233

Tri-Tech Resources Inc.; 1294 Loop Road, Lancaster, PA 17601; amount: $8,586

Lititz Machine Co.; 910 Brunnerville Road, Lititz, PA 17543; amount: $3,202

MORTGAGESCUMBERLAND COUNTY

Mortgagor: Hanjack Realty LLCLender: MBC Development

Details: property in Middlesex Township; $1.1 million

Mortgagor: Duke’s 6425 LLCLender: Centric BankDetails: 6425 and 6427 Carlisle Pike, Silver Spring Township; $1.5 million

Mortgagor: Katie Court Terminal Road Investors LLCLender: Citizens BankDetails: property in Hampden Township; $12.6 million

Mortgagor: Charter Homes at Woodbridge Inc.Lender: Beneficial BankDetails: property in Woodbridge Community, Silver Spring Township; $2.1 million

Mortgagor: FFC Structures LLCLender: Orrstown BankDetails: 412 Elford Road, East Pennsboro Township; $780,000,

Mortgagor: Fred A. Tiday Builders Inc.Lender: S&T Bank

Details: 770 Crooked Stick Drive, Hampden Township; $456,000

Mortgagor: Autumndale Associates LLCLender: Valley National BankDetails: property in East Pennsboro Township; $900,000

Mortgagor: Build Consulting Group LLCLender: First Citizens Community BankDetails: 802 Bridge St., New Cumberland; $408,750

Mortgagor: Benchmarq Holdings LLCLender: Union Community BankDetails: 776 Baltimore Pike, South Middleton Township; $2 million

Mortgagor: Charter Homes at HighPointLender: Fulton BankDetails: Arcona Road, Lower Allen Township; $1.84 million

Mortgagor: Caprice Properties LLCLender: M&T BankDetails: property in Carlisle; $350,000

York-based land development consultants Site Design Concepts worked with Distinct Construc-tion Inc. of York to redevelop the Keystone Color Works building at 175 W. Gay Ave. in York into 29 luxury loft apartments.

Smith Packet/Med-Com LLC

bought 8.17 acres of land in Cum-berland Technology Park in Hamp-den Township for a 185,000-square-foot, 192-unit senior living facility to be called The Crossings at West Shore. It will include 100 indepen-dent living units, 60 personal care units and 32 memory care units. Landmark Commercial Realty Inc. of East Pennsboro Township represented the buyer.

APR Supply Co. bought a 31,000-square-foot industrial fa-cility at 207 Lynndale Court in Hampden Township from Patton Properties. NAI CIR of Worm-lesyburg represented the buyer; Landmark represented the seller.

225 Brew & Pizza LLC bought

Anthony’s Microbrewery & Pizza at 225 N. Second St. in Harrisburg from Tony Panuccio. Marcus & Millichap of Philadelphia repre-sented the buyer; Landmark rep-resented the seller.

Oatman Properties LLC bought a 25,000-square-foot in-dustrial facility at 5885 Grayson Road in Swatara Township from Electronic Services & Design Corp. Landmark represented both parties.

Locust Lane LLC bought a 13,500-square-foot office build-ing at 4601 Locust Lane in Lower Paxton Township from Lamando and Shives Partnership. Land-mark represented both parties.

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restructure finances and remain in business. Chapter 13 is for those with a regular income who cannot pay their debts.

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Warehouses and distribution centersRanked by square footage of local warehouse space

Rank Prev.rank

CompanyAddress

Square footage oflocal/total warehouse

space

Top local executiveTitle

WebsitePhone

2015 local/totalrevenue

F-T/P-T localemployees

Local/total locationsHeadquarters

Year establishedlocally

Services provided

13 APR SUPPLY CO.

749 Guilford St.Lebanon, PA 17046-3531

460,000800,000

Scott M. WeaverPresident and CEO

www.aprsupply.com717-274-5999

$39.9 million$107.65 million

153/9

11/34Lebanon

1922

Wholesale distributor of air-conditioning, plumbingand heating products and supplies

24 UTZ QUALITY FOODS INC.

900 High St.Hanover, PA 17331

450,000450,000

Dylan LissettePresident and CEO

www.utzsnacks.com717-637-6644800-367-7629

$626 million$626 million1,300/100

10/60Hanover1921

Snack-food manufacturer

35 MAPLE PRESS CO. DBA

MAPLE LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS60 Grumbacher Road, P.O. Box 15100York, PA 17405

442,000442,000

James S. WisotzkeyCEO

www.maplelogisticssolutions.com717-764-4596

DNRDNR

109/25

3/3Manchester Twp.

1977

Warehousing, ful�llment, e-commerce, cross-docking,value-added services

42 HIGH INDUSTRIES INC.

1853 William Penn Way, P.O. Box 10008Lancaster, PA 17605-0008

261,204297,404

Michael F. ShirkCEO

www.high.net717-293-4444


1,188/75

7/9E. Lampeter Twp.

1931

Steel fabrication; precast-concrete; steel and concreteerection; metal processing/distribution; specialtyheavy hauling; construction services

56 SCHAEDLER YESCO

DISTRIBUTION INC.3982 Paxton St., P.O. Box 4990Harrisburg, PA 17111-0990

132,122258,691

James D. SchaedlerCEO

www.sydist.com717-233-1621800-998-1621

$72 million$136 million

302/4

5/21Swatara Twp.

1924

Electrical supply distributor

68 HVAC DISTRIBUTORS INC.

2 Old Market St., P.O. Box 160Mount Joy, PA 17552-0160

105,000315,000

David W. McIlwainePresident

www.hvacdist.com717-653-6674800-228-4822


69/1

2/14Mount Joy

1987

Distributor and manufacturers' representative ofheating and air conditioning equipment and supplies

79 THE WARRELL CORP.

1250 Slate Hill RoadCamp Hill, PA 17011-8011

100,000100,000

Kevin SilvaPresident

www.warrellcorp.com717-761-5440800-233-7082

DNRDNR

300/1

2/2Lower Allen Twp.

1965

Candy and snack manufacturer of Pennsylvania DutchCandies, branded, private-label and contractmanufactured goods

811 PHOENIX CONTACT USA

586 Fulling Mill Road, P.O. Box 4100Middletown, PA 17111

70,00070,000

Jack NehligPresident

www.phoenixcontact.com/us717-944-1300800-322-3225

DNRDNR

495/25

1/4Lower Swatara Twp.

1981

Manufactures industrial connection technology,automation technology, electronic interface systemsand surge protection

916 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

TRANSPORTATION INC.425 SteelwayLancaster, PA 17601

40,00040,000

Chic RhoadsCEO

www.centralpenntrans.com717-295-2442


75/12

2/3Lancaster

1985

Dedicated, short-haul and regional truckloadtransportation, shuttle and jockey services, localwarehousing

10NR ADVANCED MOVING &

INSTALLATION LLC635 Lucknow RoadHarrisburg, PA 17110

40,000DNR

Josh HockenberryOwner

www.advanced-install.com717-315-3438

$2.2 millionDNR30/8

1/1Susquehanna Twp.

2004

Of�ce furniture sales and installation; transportationand storage of of�ce equipment

1117 MARTIN'S POTATO CHIPS INC.

5847 Lincoln Highway W., P.O. Box 28Thomasville, PA 17364-0028

35,00065,000

Ken Potter Jr.President and CEO

www.martinschips.com717-792-3565800-272-4477


115/8

1/7Jackson Twp.

1971

Makes and distributes potato chips, popcorn, snackfoods

1219 PLAIN & FANCY

CUSTOM CABINETRY INC.Oak Street and Route 501Schaefferstown, PA 17088

25,000DNR

George H. "Butch" AcheyPresident

www.plainfancycabinetry.com717-949-6571800-447-9006


105/10

1/1Schaefferstown

1968

Manufacturer of residential custom cabinetry

1323 AGRI MARKETING INC. DBA

USA GYPSUM1368 W. Route 897Denver, PA 17517

16,00030,000

Terry L. WeaverPresident

www.usagypsum.com717-335-0379


9/1

2/2W. Cocalico Twp.

1998

Provides scrap gypsum wallboard recycling services tothe manufactured housing, construction industriesand C&D recycling

1425 AIRBORNE CONTAMINATION

IDENTIFICATION ASSOCIATES LTD.3430 Woodbridge CourtYork, PA 17406

13,00013,000

Shari L. LeamanPresident

www.acia-ltd.com717-767-1850


12/4

1/2Manchester Twp.

2000

HVAC �lters, fan belts, UV lights, �lter housings, dustcollection systems, duct cleaning, robotic ductcoatings and indoor air quality sampling

1526 EDWIN L HEIM CO.

1918 Greenwood St., P.O. Box 2247Harrisburg, PA 17105-2247

12,80012,800

Larry D. BashorePresident

www.elheim.com717-233-8711800-692-7317


325/0

1/1Harrisburg

1931

Electrical and mechanical contracting and service;electrical motor and apparatus sales and service,controls and systems integration

1627 CRESCENT INDUSTRIES INC.

70 E. High St.New Freedom, PA 17349-9664

11,00011,000

Daryl W. PaulesPresident and CEO

www.crescentind.com717-235-3844800-411-3844


144/3

3/3New Freedom

1946

FDA, ITAR and ISO 13485-certi�ed custom plastic-injection molder, including mold building, contractassembly and packaging service

1728 INCLINATOR COMPANY OF AMERICA

601 Gibson Blvd.Harrisburg, PA 17104

8,0008,000

William M. Stratton IIIPresident and CEO

www.inclinator.com717-939-8420800-343-9007


37/2

1/1Swatara Twp.

1924

Manufactures customized residential elevators,vertical platform lifts, homewaiters and dumbwaiters

18NR C. SUMMERS INC.

112 Spruce StreetElizabethville, PA 17023

7,1007,100

Steven C. SummersPresident

www.csummersinc.com717-362-8117800-752-1902

DNRDNR13/1

1/1Elizabethville

1961

Refrigerated meats and frozen food storage anddistribution

DBA-doing business as DNR-did not respond NA-not applicable NR-not rankedThe Central Penn Business Journal's list of warehouses and distribution centers was limited to those in or near Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry or York counties. Information came from the individual companiesand other Business Journal research. To access the Business Journal's online database, visit www.CPBJ.com/ListCentral. Surveys available at www.CPBJsurveys.info; follow @CPBJListCentral on Twitter. Published June 3, 2016.

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Trucking companiesRanked by local employees

Rank Prev.rank

CompanyAddress

2015 local/totalrevenue

Top local executiveTitle

WebsitePhone

Geographic service area Local/total driversF-T/P-T localemployees

Local/total locations/Headquarters

Year establishedlocally

Products hauled

12 CARLISLE CARRIER CORP.

6380 Brackbill Blvd., P.O. Box 1549Mechanicsburg, PA 17050


David L. MetzlerPresident and CEO

www.carlislecarrier.com717-691-8600

Northeast 230/230295/0

1/1Hampden Twp.

1990

Household goods

21 NAPA TRANSPORTATION INC.

4800 E. Trindle Road, P.O. Box 959Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-0959


Ronald AccomandoPresident and CEO

www.napatran.com717-920-9840800-332-0263

Northeast and Mid-Atlantic DNR/DNR296/0

1/4Hampden Twp.

1991

Consumer products, food andbeverage

33 S&H EXPRESS INC.

400 Mulberry St.York, PA 17403


Stephen L.Shellenberger

Chairman and CEO

www.sandhexpress.com717-848-5015

Northeast 221/283291/8

3/5York

1987

General commodities

44 LESTER R. SUMMERS INC.

40 Garden Spot Road, Suite 100Ephrata, PA 17522


Rebecca E. SummersPresident

www.summerstrucking.com717-733-6556

Primarily Pennsylvania, NewYork, New Jersey, Maryland,

Virginia, Delaware, Ohio;available for 48 contiguous

states

70/DNR106/9

1/1Ephrata1946

Precast, steel, glass, constructionequipment and other oversizematerial; sand, stone and otheraggregates

55 FROCK BROS. TRUCKING INC.

125 Frock Drive, P.O. Box 157New Oxford, PA 17350-0157


John D. FrockPresident and CEO

www.frockbros.com717-624-4431800-962-0445

48 contiguous states andCanada

DNR/DNR87/8

1/1Oxford Twp.

1982

Refrigerated, dry and all generalcommodities

67 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

TRANSPORTATION INC.425 SteelwayLancaster, PA 17601


Chic RhoadsCEO

www.centralpenntrans.com717-295-2442

Northeast DNR/DNR75/12

2/3Lancaster

1985

General commodities

76 DAILY EXPRESS INC.

1072 Harrisburg Pike, P.O. Box 239Carlisle, PA 17013-0039


Todd R. LongCEO

www.dailyexp.com717-243-5757

Continental U.S., Canada andMexico

DNR/DNR86/3

1/9Middlesex Twp.

1958

Machinery, construction equipment,wind turbines, fabricated products,mining machines, farm equipment

88 JAGTRUX INC.

1435 River Road, P.O. Box 69Marietta, PA 17547


James A. GermakPresident

www.jagtrux.com717-426-0195800-343-9628

Northeast, Southeast andMidwest, including all major

metro areas

DNR/DNR35/10

2/2E. Donegal Twp.

1982

Building materials, dry goods

9NR GSH ENTERPRISES INC.

66 Campbell RoadYork, PA 17406


Stephen DeichmanPresident

www.gshenterprises.com717-515-0055

Mid-Atlantic and Northeast 9/DNR14/0

1/1Springettsbury Twp.

2009

Infrastructure, building materials,railroad, form work

DBA-doing business as DNR-did not respond NA-not applicable NR-not ranked The Central Penn Business Journal's list of trucking companies is limited to those with of�ces or terminals in or near Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin,Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry or York counties. Information came from the individual companies and other Business Journal research. To access the Business Journal's online database, visit www.CPBJnow.com/ListCentral. Surveys available atwww.CPBJsurveys.info; follow @CPBJListCentral on Twitter. Published June 3, 2016.

Researched by Alaine Keisling

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hunger lives hereThe number of people asking for food assistance in central PA is at record levels. Through the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank’s network of 800 community partners we provide non-perishable food, fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen meats and dairy products to more than 54,000 individuals in our community each week. With the support of our generous donors, we will continue to assist our neighbors in need by supplying the nutritious food they need for a healthy diet.

For more infomation about the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, please visit our website,centralpafoodbank.org, or call us at 717.564.1700.

fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities

CenTRAL PennSyLvAnIA FOOD BAnk

Fighting hunger, improving lives and strengthening communities

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year established: 1982

no. of employees (full-time): 53

no. of employees (part-time): 8

annual revenue (most recent

fiscal year): $48,647,352

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Donated Goods

80%

Investment Income & Other 1%

Government Grants 2%

Program Service Revenue 10%

Contributions & Private Grants 7%

Volunteers are the lifeblood of the emergency food distribution network and provide valuable assistance at the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank by helping to sort donated food, stock shelves, repackage bulk foods, and pack grocery boxes to be distributed to children, families and senior citizens in need. In addition, volunteers are needed to help prepare mailings, assist with data entry and filing, and assist with the planning and execution of special events.

Another great way to get involved is by holding your own event. With the support of our staff, many individuals and organizations coordinate food drives and fundraising events to benefit the Food Bank every year.

The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank welcomes volunteers age 12 and older (although volunteers ages 12-15 require adult supervision or a chaperone) to help support our mission to reduce hunger. Volunteer assistance is primarily needed Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1–4 p.m. Evening and weekend hours are also available, but they vary. For more information about volunteering with the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, please visit our website or contact our Volunteer and Food Drive Manager Katie Wetzel at 717-564-1700, ext. 3198, or [email protected].

vOLunTeeR OPPORTunITIeS

The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank is the largest nonprofit food distribution organization in Central Pennsylvania. As the Food Bank strives to escalate our efforts to meet the ever-growing demand in our area, we must seek new and innovative ways to acquire food, and we must look beyond the typical nonperishable staples. We feel it is our duty to acquire and distribute more fresh fruits and vegetables, and we are committed to working with our donors and partner agencies to provide the most nutritious food available for our neighbors struggling with hunger.

In 2013, the Food Bank expanded its distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables to Central Pennsylvania households to five million pounds. This is more than twice the amount of fresh produce distributed in 2012 and five times the amount provided in 2011. Fresh fruits and vegetables now make up nearly 20 percent of the vital food distributed by the Food Bank, which is on par with what is purchased by a typical American shopper. We will continue to make every effort to deliver the most nourishing food possible to help our neighbors in need eat healthier and live better.

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A donation to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank can take many forms, and each contribution is extremely valuable because your gift will offer hope to those who need it most.

Food donations make up the majority of the nearly three million pounds of food the Food Bank receives each month. Donations large and small, by individuals or corporations, make it possible for the Food Bank to fulfill our mission and continue to meet the growing need for food assistance. You can help by planning or participating in a food drive or making a donation from your garden or grocery cart.

Monetary donations enable us to supplement donated food items. Each dollar donated to the Food Bank provides six

meals to an individual in need. Contributions come from individuals, foundations and corporate donors. You may also leave a legacy that will help end hunger in our community through planned giving, such as bequests, beneficiary designations and stock transfers.

Sponsorship of Food Bank events and programs is a great way to promote your business while investing in our area’s future. Sponsors can help with our Taste of Central PA, Taste of Lancaster County or Soup & a Bowl events, our senior or child hunger programs, etc. For more information on how you can make a donation, visit centralpafoodbank.org/donate.

GIvInG OPPORTunITIeS

For more than 30 years, the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank has been assisting individuals and families in our communities who are struggling with hunger. The Food Bank began as a one-day demonstration project on World Food Day in 1981. To fully serve hungry families in our community, it began permanent operations in October 1982 in a converted movie theater in Steelton.

In its first full year, 700,000 pounds of food was distributed to 140 community partners. These partners include food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, low-income child care centers, after-school programs, senior care centers and

more. In 1994, the Food Bank relocated to its current facility in Harrisburg. In 1999, 15,000 square feet of warehouse space was added, along with a walk-in freezer. A warehouse facility in Williamsport was added in 2002 to serve the Food Bank’s northern service area. In 2012, 28,000 square feet of warehouse space was added to the Harrisburg location.

The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank now has a distribution network of more than 800 partner agencies. Last year, more than 28 million pounds of food was distributed in our network and more than 54,000 people are served each week in the Food Bank’s 27-county distribution area.

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Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Potter, Snyder, Sullivan, Tioga, Union and York counties

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The Central Penn Business Journal is seeking nominees for the 13th annual

Business of the Year Awards.

To be eligible, businesses must be privately-held, for-profit entities that are headquartered (or have significant operations) in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry or York county.

Award categories include:

•Business of the Year (1-50, 51-100, and 101+ employees)

•Emerging Business of the Year (companies that are less than 5 years old)

•Entrepreneur of the Year (founders of companies of any size/age)

The finalists, winners and honorees will be recognized at a black-tie event on Monday, November 7, 2016, at the Hilton Harrisburg. They will also be featured in a special publication to be inserted in the November 11 issue of the Central Penn Business Journal.

Companies and individuals are welcome to submit self-nominationsor suggest other deserving honorees.

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Letters of Administration for the Estate of Douglas G. Sheffer who died April 27, 2016, late of Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania were granted to Nathan Sheffer. All those having a claim or those indebted to the estate should make their position known by contacting:

Susan H. Confair, EsquireReager & Adler, PC 2331 Market StreetCamp Hill, PA 17011(717) 763-1383

Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Beatrice E. Leisher, also known as Beatrice E. Blecker, de-ceased (date of death – April 30, 2016), late of Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsyl-vania, have been granted to Edward E. Leisher. All persons indebted to Beatrice E. Leisher, also known as Beatrice E. Blecker, are requested to make im-mediate payment to her estate. Additionally, all those having claims against Beatrice E. Leisher, also known as Beatrice E. Blecker, must present them for settlement to: Elizabeth P. MullaughMcNees Wallace & Nurick LLC100 Pine StreetP. O. Box 1166Harrisburg, PA 17108-1166(717) 232-8000

Letters of Testamentary for the Estate of Peggy L. Stank who died April 17, 2016, late of Hampden Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania were granted to Dauvey J. Hoffman. All those having a claim or those indebted to the estate should make their position known by contacting:

Susan H. Confair, EsquireReager & Adler, PC2331 Market StreetCamp Hill, PA 17011(717) 763-1383

ESTATE NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Letters Testamen-tary have been granted in the ESTATE OF JOHN R. CROMPTON, late of Cumberland County, Penn-sylvania, who died March 12, 2016, to Ellen M. Crompton, 5204 Cobblestone Drive, Mechanics-burg, PA 17055. All persons indebted to the said estate are required to make payment, and those having claims or demands to present the same without delay to the Executrix or her attorney named below.

Elyse E. Rogers, EsquireSaidis, Sullivan & Rogers100 Sterling Parkway, Suite 100Mechanicsburg, PA 17050

Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Evelyn Y. Motter (date of death – 4/15/2016), late of Derry Township, Hershey, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, have been granted to Lacy Ann Clites. All persons indebted to Evelyn Y. Motter are requested to make immediate payment to her estate. Additionally, all those having claims against Evelyn Y. Motter must present them for settlement to:

Elizabeth P. Mullaugh, EsquireMcNees Wallace & Nurick LLC100 Pine StreetP.O. Box 1166Harrisburg, PA 17108-1166Telephone: 717-237-5243

Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Ann D. Menger (date of death – 5/6/2016), late of Susque-hanna Township, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, have been granted to PNC Bank, N.A.. All persons indebted to Ann D. Menger are re-quested to make immediate payment to her estate. Additionally, all those having claims against Ann D. Menger must present them for settlement to:

Elizabeth P. Mullaugh, EsquireMcNees Wallace & Nurick LLC100 Pine StreetP.O. Box 1166Harrisburg, PA 17108-1166Telephone: 717-237-5243

Estate Notice

Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Patricia Ann Boarman, late of Silver Spring Township, Cumber-land County, Pennsylvania, deceased, were granted on May 18, 2016. All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims will present them, without delay, to the following:

Karen L. Walker609 Mallard DriveEtters, PA 17319

NOTICE is hereby given that the East Lampeter Township Zoning Hearing Board will hold hear-ings on the following applications at 7:30 PM on Thursday, June 23, 2016 in the Township Municipal Building, 2250 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, PA 17602:

* Case #2016-18 - Application of Jonas B. King of 406 Mount Sidney Road, Lancaster, PA 17602 requesting a variance of Article 20, Section 20030.E.3 of the 2016 East Lampeter Township Zoning Ordinance for an accessory structure ex-ceeding 25 feet for property located at 406 Mount Sidney Road, Lancaster, PA 17602 located in the VR – Village Residential Zoning District. The appli-cant seeks to construct an accessory building with

a height of approximately 28 feet rather than the allowed 25 feet.

* Case #2016-19 – Application of Daniel Stoltzfus of 58 Witmer Road, Lancaster, PA 17602 request-ing a variance of Article VII, Section 706.2, mini-mum building setback line from all streets shall be fifteen (15) feet to the rear of the front face of the principle building, of the 1990 East Lampeter Town-ship Zoning Ordinance, as amended, for property located at 58 Witmer Road, Lancaster, PA 17602 in the R – Rural District. The applicant is propos-ing replacement of a barn structure which currently does not meet this requirement.

Tara HitchensZoning Officer

FICTITIOUS NAME NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an application for registration of a fictitious name, Prestige Financial for the conduct of business in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, with the principal place of busi-ness being 116 Pine St, Ste. #320, Harrisburg, PA 17101 was made to the Department of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the 23 day of May, 2016 pursu-ant to the Act of Assembly of December 16 1982, Act 295.

The name and address of the only person or per-sons owning or interested in the said business are: Prestige Financial Services, Inc. 1420 South 500 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115

ESTATE NOTICE

Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Alice M. Swank (died April 29, 2016), late of Dauphin Coun-ty, Pennsylvania, have been granted to Raymond A. Swank of 529 Northstar Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17112 and Rose Swank-Bowman of 75 Deardorff Drive, Etters, PA 17319. All persons indebted to the said estate are required to make payment, and those having claims or demands to present the same without delay to the Executors or their attor-ney named below.

LAW OFFICES OF MARK K. EMERY410 North Second StreetHarrisburg, PA 17101(717) 238-9883

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For failure to pay rent, the following property will be sold to satisfy the owner’s lien at PUBLIC AUCTION by competitive bidding on June 15, 2016. Public Auction will begin at Moove In Self Storage, 103 Stone Mill Rd, Lancaster, PA 17603 at 10:00 a.m.; upon completion, Moove In Self Storage, 1391 Ver-

mont Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603; upon completion, Moove In Self Storage, 1250 Shreiner Station Rd, Lancaster, PA 17601; upon completion, Moove In Self Storage, 28 Doe Run Rd, Manheim, PA 17545; upon completion, Moove In Self Storage, 220 Cen-terville Rd, Lancaster, PA 17603; upon completion, Moove In Self Storage, 22 Prestige Ln, Lancaster, PA 17603; upon completion, Moove In Self Storage, 950 Lancaster Pk, Lancaster, PA 17566.Cash only. Items sold as is:

103 Stone Mill RdTroy Boddy Unit 122Lathasha Lias Unit 133Chis Dickey Unit 138Mary Crable Unit 157Sonia Cosme Unit 170Naja Jackson Unit 183Anneliese Colon Unit 191Ramses Afanador Unit 195Keenya Smith Unit 237Zachary West Unit 256Kelly Buck Unit 288Audrey Wein Unit 291Wessina Rupert Unit 302Janell Shaffer Unit 306Jonathan Maxwell Unit 311Jeremy Logue Unit 353Jean Bouder Unit 362

1391 Vermont AvenueKevin Sims Unit 1014Nathan Garden Unit 1050Mary Morales Unit 1105

1250 Shreiner Station RdDonna Medora Unit 0209Derrick DeLeon Unit 0225Jessica McCarthy Unit 2190

28 Doe Run RoadJamie Bolden Unit B019Elke Smathers Unit C092Sean Lehew Unit C093Chanliza Stormfeltz Unit D003

220 Centerville RoadKimberly Smith Unit 0024Todd Stoe Unit 0028Stephan Betz Unit 0132Alicia Bradbury Unit 0700 22 Prestige LaneFrank Snyder Unit 1011Carlos Vega Unit 1067Joel Mendez Unit 1069Megan Kimmel Unit 1113Mary Hernandez Unit 1217Lorren Gutierrez Unit 1364Amanda Bare Unit 1401Javier Nieves Unit 1413Dennis Walsh Unit 1446Richelle Petersheim Units 1515 & 1523John Pyle Unit 1620

950 Lancaster PikeAlicia Fasy Unit A012James Brown Unit A022Dawn Morris Unit A032Bethany Smith Unit B045

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For failure to pay rent, the following property will be sold to satisfy the owner’s lien at PUBLIC AUCTIONby competitive bidding on Thursday, June 16, 2016Auction will begin at 10:00 am at Moove In Self Storage 2290 Greenbriar Road York, PA 17404. Upon completion, the auction will proceed to Moove In Self Storage 140 Morgan Lane York, PA 17406. Upon completion, the auction will proceed to Har-risburg Self Storage 22 Kline Plaza, Harrisburg, PA 17104. Auction will begin at 12:00 PM. Upon completion, the auction will proceed to Sierra’s Glenn Self Storage 5407 Locust Lane Harrisburg, PA 17109. Cash only. Items sold as is.

2290 Greenbriar RoadUnit 0284 Wendy SchafferUnit 0425 Betty SmallUnit 0601 Jesse Rohrbaugh

140 Morgan LaneUnit 0511 Jessica L KeisterUnit 2064 James ChristyUnit 2074 Nikki JohnsonUnit 2090 Starr Kershaw

22 Kline PlazaUnit 027 Demetrius GorhamUnit 112 Desmond ThomasUnit 148 Howard Johnson

5407 Locust LaneUnit 022 Brian GemberlingUnit 182 Brian Slaughter

ESTATE NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Letters Testamen-tary have been grantedin the ESTATE OF NANCY JEAN GEORGE A/K/A NANCY J. GEORGE, late ofCumberland County, Pennsylvania, who died May 6, 2016, to Jimmie C. George,162 H Street, Carlisle, PA 17013 and Anne G. Fer-guson, 109 Glen Drive,Doylestown, PA 18901. All persons indebted to the said estate are required to makepayment, and those having claims or demands to present the same without delay tothe Executors or their attorney named below.

Elyse E. Rogers, EsquireSaidis, Sullivan & Rogers100 Sterling Parkway, Suite 100Mechanicsburg, PA 17050

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2016 marks a new era of recognizing outstanding craftsmanship in the construction industry in Central pennsylvania. The Central penn business Journal is pleased to continue the 44-year tradition of the MabX Craftsmanship awards with the 2016 Craftsman of the Year awards. The goal of the awards program is to recognize individual construction professionals directly responsible for outstanding work and to show appreciation for extraordinary effort on particular projects.

all finalists and winners, along with their companies, will be recognized at an event on october 20, 2016 at the Sheraton harrisburg-hershey.

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MOUNTAIN ROADIF YOU GO

Date: June 4

Location: Whitaker Center, Harrisburg

About the event: In conjunc-tion with its new exhibit, “Guitar — The Instrument That Rocked The World,” the Whitaker Center will kick off its Summer Music Series with a performance by Harrisburg’s Mountain Road, a four-piece country/rock/blues band. The free show will begin at noon. More details: www.whitaker center.org

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Jennifer Nettles to perform liveJune 5, Lancaster County: Singer/songwriter Jennifer Nettles, best known as half of the successful country pop duo Sugarland, will bring her CMT Next Women of Country Tour to Lancaster. The show will begin at 7 p.m. amtshows.com/jennifer-nettles/

‘War of the Roses’ baseballJune 3-5, York County: The York Revolution of the White Rose City will take on the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Red Rose City in a “War of the Roses” baseball matchup. www.york revolution.com

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Joe Wagman digs digging. And now he has a degree in it.

On May 23, the chairman of York-based Wagman Construction Inc. earned a bachelor’s degree in archeology from Dickinson College.

It came with a twist: Wagman was handed his diploma by a family member who had gone before him — his daughter Anna, who had been handed her own degree in anthropology only moments previously.

“That was fun,” he said.The Wagmans are the first father-and-daugh-

ter pair graduating together in the history of

Dickinson, college spokesman Craig Layne said.Wagman’s path to graduation began years

before he enrolled at Dickinson.“I’ve always had an interest in archaeology,”

said Wagman, who had gone on several digs in his younger years.

His particular passion was for the Mycenae-ans, a Greek society that collapsed about 3,200 years ago.

At 55, Wagman was beginning to think about what retirement might look like, and envisioned his historical leanings as part of that landscape.

He contacted a Dickinson professor who was leading a Greek dig about “coming up to chat sometime.”

That chat led to enrollment, but Wagman was still a working businessman. He completed his degree over eight years, taking one credit per semester.

“Here was a 60-something in a room full of 18-year-olds,” said Wagman.

Nevertheless, he praised his classmates for always treating him like “any other student.”

“It was just fun to be back in school,” said Wagman, who earned a first bachelor’s degree, in accounting and finance, from Georgetown University in 1973.

And just like any other student, Wagman

also had to pass certain courses, including physical education and a foreign language.

“They told me that if you’re going to get the de-gree, you have to do everything,” Wagman said.

The language he studied? You guessed it: Greek.

While Wagman was working toward his degree, it came time for daughter, Anna, to choose a college.

She chose Dickinson. Father and daughter, who did not take classes together, managed to maintain a healthy balance between bonding and respecting one another’s space.

On Sunday, they capped their studies with an emotional farewell to Dickinson. Wagman was well acquainted with a fellow York-area businessman who served as commencement speaker: Gov. Tom Wolf.

Anna Wagman is headed to Emory Univer-sity in Georgia to pursue a master’s degree in public health.

As for her dad? He’s still working, and mull-ing what to do next with his newly minted academic credentials.

Heading back to Greece for more digging is one likely option, but he’s also mulling another.

“Maybe I’ll take a gap year, figure out what I want to do with my life,” Wagman said with a chuckle.<

YORK COUNTY

Joe and Anna Wagman are seen during commencement ceremonies May 23 at Dickinson College, where Gov. Tom Wolf, left, delivered the commencement speech. College President Nancy Roseman is in the red gown on the right.PHOTO/SUBMITTED

Family studiesWagman chairman, daughter first Dickinson father-daughter pair to graduate together


Central Penn Business Journal will honor 40 of Central PA’s most accomplished young leaders at the 2016 Forty Under 40 event. Recipients will be selected and recognized for their commitment to business growth,

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DeaDline for nominations: Tuesday, JuLy 12, 2016

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Candidates must be 39 years or younger on November 21, 2016, and be employed in Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry or York county to be eligible.

The complete nomination form and requirements can be found online at www.cpbj.com/events.

Sponsorship opportunities are available.Contact Shaun McCoach at 717-236-4300 or email [email protected].

Seventy-seven associates from Members 1st Federal Credit Union participated in Bowl for Kids’ Sake, which raises money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region. Together the group raised $7,088. The funds will help Big Brothers Big Sisters continue its work of matching children with adult mentors.

Volunteers gathered May 21 at the Wittel Farm Retreat near Elizabethtown for the inaugural planting day for Hunger-Free Lancaster County’s Wittel Farm Growing Project. The charitable endeavor is sponsored by the Lutheran Camping Corp. of Central Pennsylvania. Volunteers from the Lancaster County Council of Churches, the United Way of Lancaster County and the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank participated in the effort, helping to plant 1,000 plants in just over an hour.

Patriot Federal Credit Union has teamed up

with the Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce

and Downtown Chambersburg Inc. to

help raise funds for The Chambersburg

Community Mural Project, which will

feature the creation of two mosaic murals

located in down-town Chambersburg.

Pictured is Philadelphia area artist Isaiah Zagar,

who will paint the mural with a team of local artists. The two

murals will be complet-ed this summer at the

Main Street Deli and The Foundry buildings.

McNees law firm welcomed five law students to its 10-week summer associate program, which gives aspiring professionals a chance to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to the real world. From left, Adrian Dean, Temple University School of Law; Erica Koser, George Washington University School of Law; Erica Townes, Widener School of Law; Sarah Dotzel, Vanderbilt University School of Law and Rachel Sellers, Temple University School of Law.

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