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Morning Roundup
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:21 AM
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An area developer is proposing three student housing apartment buildings to support the Penn State Harrisburg campus that would accommodate 264 residents. Greenworks Development of Harrisburg presented the plans during the Lower Swatara Township commissioners meeting Wednesday.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:20 AM
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Dauphin County commissioners on Wednesday awarded a $375,000 grant to help The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts with a multimillion renovation and energy-efficiency project.
Source: The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:20 AM
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Groups in York are banding together to pay a full-time retail recruiter to assist in filling vacant storefronts downtown and help guide prospects to specific parts of its burgeoning central business district.
Source: Central Penn Business Journal
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:19 AM
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A groundbreaking ceremony for a $12 million ambulatory surgery center at Lebanon VA Medical Center was held Tuesday.
Source: The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:18 AM
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Japan’s vaunted “just in time” approach to business has become “wait and see.” Much of Japan’s industry seemed to remain in a state of suspension Wednesday, as the devastation from an earthquake and tsunami, combined with fear and uncertainty over the nuclear calamity, made it difficult for corporate Japan to think about business as usual.
Source: The New York Times
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:18 AM
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and other large retailers are ratcheting up a political campaign to force Amazon.com Inc. to collect sales taxes, sensing opportunity in the budget crises gripping statehouses nationwide.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:17 AM
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Builders broke ground last month on the fewest homes in nearly two years and cut their requests for permits to start new projects to a five-decade low. The decline in construction activity is the latest evidence that the housing industry is years away from a recovery.
Source: York Daily Record/York Sunday News
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:17 AM
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Higher-wage industries have been lagging when it comes to private job creation, according to a new report from a worker advocacy group.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Thursday, March 17, 2011 08:16 AM
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Higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in nearly four decades drove wholesale prices up last month by the most in nearly two years. Excluding those categories, inflation was tame.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 08:20 AM
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Jim T. Ryan covers manufacturing, technology, transportation, work force and Cumberland County. He has been with the Central Penn Business Journal since 2006.
Volvo Construction Equipment, the Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks and equipment for infrastructure building, today said it will spend $100 million to expand production at its Shippensburg factory and move its North American sales headquarters there.
Source: Central Penn Business Journal
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