Not huge news, but I wanted to post because it's even further proof that bigger cities are taking notice of us...
RESTAURANTS
Chain prepares to expand
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
A restaurant chain that specializes in fresh salads has targeted central Pennsylvania for growth.
Saladworks, based in Conshohocken, plans to open 15 to 20 restaurants in the midstate within the next three years, said Steve Beagelman, senior vice president and chief franchise officer. The restaurants will be in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading and York areas.
Saladworks has 74 restaurants now, including one near Lancaster and several in the Philadelphia area. It also has restaurants in New Jersey, Florida, Delaware, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.
More information about Saladworks can be found at the company Web site,
www.saladworks.com.
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MAKING A POINTE
Area shopping center to open on schedule
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
BY MARY KLAUS
Of The Patriot-News
H.Stephen Evans surveyed the massive construction project in Swatara Twp. and pointed to more than 100 workers plying their crafts.
"Look around," Evans said last week. "There are crews putting in storm-water lines, sewer lines, gas lines and electric lines; masons working on building exteriors; and people pouring concrete for the foundation for the shops."
Those workers, on a mission to transform a 43-acre cornfield into a $50 million shopping center called High Pointe Commons, will finish by the scheduled opening in October, said Evans, project manager for High Real Estate Group in Lancaster.
The shopping center off Interstate 283 and Chambers Hill Road will feature Target and J.C. Penney stores as well as restaurants and small shops.
Crews have been working nonstop on the rocky terrain since August. After months of ground preparation, the shells of the two anchor stores were built in November and December. The Target store, which measures 125,000 square feet, and the J.C. Penney space, at 100,000 square feet, are under roof.
Work has started in the area between the two anchor stores that will house 10 to 15 shops ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 square feet, Evans said.
"We'll have at least six restaurants, including a Chili's," he said.
A pedestrian walkway will connect the Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey hotel to High Pointe Commons. The main entrance off Lindle Road winds through the Wyndham property. That link required knocking down the hotel's parking garage. The entrance will be a boulevard with trees down the center, said Paul Cornell, Swatara Twp. administrator.
"The developers already are planning phase two," Cornell said, describing that as a seven-acre site that could feature a 60,000-square-foot theater and entertainment complex. "This won't open until 2007."
Target has a store at Paxton Towne Centre along Route 22 in Lower Paxton Twp. J.C. Penney closed a 153,000-square-foot store at nearby Harrisburg Mall in April 2001.
Harrisburg Mall, Colonial Park Mall, The Point, Colonial Commons, Paxton Towne Centre and the Outlets at Hershey are all a short drive away.
Evans said the shopping center will serve people in the southeastern quadrant of the East Shore who haven't had convenient access for retail shopping.
"The other Target is at least five miles away, and the closest J.C. Penney is in the Capital City Mall eight miles away," he said. "J.C. Penney is usually mall-based. This will be only its second off-mall site in Pennsylvania and is considered the off-mall prototype."
Evans said High Real Estate Group and CBL & Associates Properties Inc. of Chattanooga, Tenn., bought the property from PPL Corp. The land was best known for a 21-acre corn maze, which was shaped like the symbol of the Children's Miracle Network, that raised money for the network in 2002.