Greater Reading Chamber Alliance
Congratulations to the 2023 Building Berks Award winners! The nominees and winners were celebrated Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Reading. 2023 Building Berks Winners Category Project Name Commercial – Office Stratix Systems Headquarters Building Commercial – Renovation ROG Orthodontics Historic Preservation/Restoration Berks County Trust Building Agribusiness B.A.D. Farm Adaptive Reuse Fraser Advanced …
By Jim Sarro, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, GRCA Team of Experts for Architecture – Commercial/Industrial The Global Support Center for Fraser Advanced Information Systems is located in West Reading. The team at Muhlenberg Greene (MG) Architects assisted its fellow Chamber members with design solutions that garnered the 2023 Adaptive Reuse Building Berks Award. Design Challenge …
The Greater Berks Development Fund (GBDF), an affiliate of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA), announced today that the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) approved an economic development loan at its May board meeting in Harrisburg to benefit F.M. Brown’s Sons, Inc. PIDA will extend a $700,000 loan to assist F. M. Brown’s Sons, Inc. with …
The Berks Alliance-funded TEMS study indicated reestablishing passenger rail is not only feasible, but also economically viable and environmentally beneficial. Passenger rail will reduce vehicle travel along the highway corridors by 5%, generate nearly $1.4 billion of regional income, over 28,000-person-years of work, over $1.1 billion in increased property values and new development, and nearly …
The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA) today announced that the nomination period for its annual business awards will open Tuesday, Jan. 18. The new year brings a few, significant changes to the awards process. The awards will now be known as the Business Excellence Awards with two categories separating businesses by annual revenue. Category 1 …