• Think You Can Fill Big-Bird’s Huge Shoes? Sesame Place May Have a Job for You

    Think You Can Fill Big-Bird’s Huge Shoes? Sesame Place May Have a Job for You

    Among the coronavirus concerns for Bucks County’s tourism industry was a visitor drought. The concern now is an employee shortage, reports Damon C. Williams in the Bucks County Courier Times.  A recent Sesame Place job fair sought to fill more than 800 openings. Public relations manager Dana Ryan called the event successful, even though positions continued outnumbering candidates.  One ongoing challenge for employers is overcoming applicants’ workplace COVID-19 comfort levels.  Ryan characterized the official…

  • Harrisburg Provides Funding to Keep a Bucks County Prosthetics Manufacturer Moving Forward

    Harrisburg Provides Funding to Keep a Bucks County Prosthetics Manufacturer Moving Forward

    Harry J. Lawall and Son, Inc. received a 15-year, $1.83 million real estate loan from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA), according to Liz Carey at the Pennsylvania Business Report.  The loan will provide capital for the acquisition and renovation of a 38,276-square foot facility in Middletown Township. The new facility will increase efficiency in Lawall’s manufacturing of prosthetics…

  • The Once Traveling African-American Museum of Bucks County Finds Permanent Home in Middletown

    The Once Traveling African-American Museum of Bucks County Finds Permanent Home in Middletown

    The once traveling African-American Museum of Bucks County has found its permanent home in a colonial-era Boone farmhouse in Middletown, writes Peg Quann for the Bucks County Courier Times. Linda Salley, the museum’s president and executive director, said that during the county commissioners’ meeting last week she believes the museum will be set up in…

  • Owner of Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne Plans to Merge Their Company

    Owner of Oxford Valley Mall in Langhorne Plans to Merge Their Company

    Simon Property Group, owner of Oxford Valley Mall as well as the King of Prussia megamall, has made a lot of headlines in the last year for their unique business moves, such as buying stores at their malls out of bankruptcy. The real estate group looks to have an eye for continuing their innovative ways…

  • New Lease Deal Unites Styer Orchard, Market at Styer Under Management of Single Entity

    New Lease Deal Unites Styer Orchard, Market at Styer Under Management of Single Entity

    For the past two decades, Styer Orchard and the Market at Styer in Middletown Township had been operating under two separate leases, writes Samantha Bambino for the Lower Bucks Times. Styer Orchard was run by Mike and Karen Field until their son Tim took over in 2019. Meanwhile the farm store was managed by Dave…