Greater Reading Chamber Alliance
A collaboration between GoggleWorks Center for the Arts + Penn State Berks GoggleWorks Center for the Arts has long served as a downtown Reading mecca for creative exploration, hands-on learning, and access to the arts in countless forms. From hands-on classes in ceramics to drawing to painting to printmaking, and a number of workshops in …
And the Top Employer is… The most recent yearly survey of the top employers of Greater Reading showed East Penn Manufacturing retaining the top spot. Tower Health is close and closing in on the top spot. Tower Health simply cannot find people fast enough to keep up with the growing health care industry. In the last …
Success Stories In addition to growing crops and livestock, the Burkholder family of Richmond Township have become masters of growing through PIDA loan financing. Michael and Melissa Burkholder were approved by the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) for a $400,000 loan at its July 2019 board meeting. This low-interest loan was part of a financing …
In the case of a Berks County family, it was the financing! Low interest financing that is. The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA), recently helped procure a $400,000 state loan through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) to build a house to raise newborn chicks into egg laying hens, also known as chicken pullet house. …
GREATER READING OPPORTUNITY ZONES In December 2017, the United States Congress added a new economic development tool called Opportunity Zones to the tax code through the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. Opportunity Zones provide federal tax benefits to investors who make equity investments from realized capital gains in qualifying development projects or businesses …
