Multimodal Transportation Funds projects in Lehigh, Berks, Montgomery, and Northampton counties are among the project approvals receiving more than $58 million in grants and loans.

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Dennis Davin plans to resign from the position he’s held for seven years on Feb. 11. 

Hatch BioFund of Doylestown has received a $1 million loan from the state through the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority. 

Gov. Tom Wolf’s recent executive order recommends that Pennsylvania’s government agencies consider imposing a minimum-wage requirement on businesses for employers to qualify for state aid, a move that would severely impact the state’s small businesses during a time of recovery, according to two state business associations. 

Dozens of Greater Lehigh Valley businesses and service agencies with employees on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, received part of $50 million in state grants to provide those workers with hazard pay.

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority announced today that it will award nearly $1.5 million in grants to each of the four Ben Franklin Technology Partners in the state.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania unveiled a three-pronged plan for a $1 million allocation it received from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

Several senators led by Sen. David J. Arnold Jr., (R-Lebanon) are seeking relief for construction firms throughout the state who have largely shuttered their companies and most projects after Gov. Wolf’s business closure order on March 19.

Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry is seeking modification and clarification of Gov. Tom Wolf’s order closing all “non-life sustaining businesses" in the state.

Monroe County manufacturer Vigon International will benefit from state funding will help it extend natural gas service for a multi-million dollar project that will create an additional 75 jobs.