Greater Reading Chamber Alliance
By Deb Millman, Vice President of Development, GRCA | President of the Greater Berks Development Fund The Pennsylvania State Small Business Credit Initiative (PA-SSBCI) was established with federal funding through the Federal State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), reauthorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) as a response to the economic effects …
Jim Gerlach, President & CEO of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA) today sent a letter to the Berks County state delegation members detailing GRCA’s support for H.B. 1826, Expansion of the Clean Slate Program to include nonviolent, low-level drug-related felonies. The statement read: “GRCA members support the bipartisan effort to expand the Clean Slate …
Plum Creek Farm, LLC is set for another expansion at its Penn Township location at 5035 Bernville Road. The rapidly growing ice cream, food and farm market operation is preparing to construct a 4,800-square-foot pretzel manufacturing facility. This will be in addition to its 12,000-square-foot building, constructed in 2020. The $1.7 million project is made …
Jim Gerlach, President & CEO of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA) issued the following statement praising the passage of the 2022-23 state budget that includes the long-sought reduction of our state Corporate Net Income Tax (CNIT), the allowance for like kind exchanges, paying down the debt in the Unemployment Compensation Security Fund, and other …
By Shanon Sabanos, Community Development Initiatives Coordinator Mark Balthaser, a young, beginning farmer, is following his family’s 130-year tradition. He has worked for his parent’s dairy and cropping operation for years. His parents, Randy and Traci, have owned and operated Northkill Creek Farms in Bernville since 2010 when they purchased their three farms made up of …