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2301 Harrisburg Pike – Office Building Sale Price Reduced to $1,549,000!
Monday, July 31st, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Great opportunity for owner/investor.
Conveniently located between Route 30 and Route 283, as well as near Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Campus and Penn State Health’s new hospital.
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Congratulations to Dan Berger, Jr. for 2021 Member of the Year Award
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022 at 3:31 PM
Mike Wagner and Scott Bradbury Complete Sale of Medical Office Building
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 at 12:42 PM
Congratulations to Mike Wagner, CCIM and Scott Bradbury, Senior Vice President, on completing the sale of a medical office building located at 1159 River Road in Marietta! Mike represented the seller and Scott represented the buyer. To view all of our for sale and lease listings click on the “PROPERTIES” tab!
U. S. Commercial Realty Office Closed Until Further Notice Due To COVID-19
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 at 12:44 PM
Agents Dan Berger CCIM, SIOR and Dan Berger Jr. CCIM were recently featured in CIRE Magainze’s “CCIM Deal Makers” segment
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 at 12:42 PM
Agents Dan Berger CCIM, SIOR and Dan Berger Jr. CCIM were recently featured in CIRE Magainze’s “CCIM Deal Makers” segment. The article outlined the sale of a 132,000 SF warehouse in Denver, PA in which they represented the Buyer, Esbenshade’s Garden Center. Check out the article below to get the full details of the deal!
U. S. Commercial Realty Office Closed Until Further Notice Due To COVID-19
Monday, March 30th, 2020 at 6:52 PM
Senior Vice President Scott Bradbury Sells 13-Acres in Lime Spring to Heat and Control
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 at 12:51 PM
U. S. Commercial Realty’s Senior Vice President Scott Bradbury represented Heat and Control in their purchase of a 13-Acre tract of land in Lime Spring Square. Read more about the transaction in the article below:
Dan Berger, CCIM, SIOR and Dan Berger Jr., CCIM, Represent Buyer in Sale of Bollman Hat Distribution Center
Friday, January 3rd, 2020 at 11:45 AM
Dan Berger, CCIM, SIOR and Dan Berger Jr., CCIM represented Esbenshade Garden Center in their acquisition of Bollman Hat’s former distribution center in Denver, PA. Read more about the sale by following the link below:
Dan Berger, CCIM, SIOR and Dan Berger Jr., CCIM Recently Featured in Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal
Friday, November 15th, 2019 at 12:04 PM
Dan Berger, Dan Berger Jr., and Scott Bradbury Featured in Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal
Monday, August 5th, 2019 at 1:53 PM
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Dwight Wagner, CCIM, Brokers Deal Between Ferguson & Hassler Supermarket and GIANT Food Stores
Monday, May 20th, 2019 at 12:41 PM
Dwight E. Wagner, CCIM, represented Ferguson & Hassler, Inc. and Townsedge Associates in the sale of Ferguson & Hassler’s grocery business to GIANT Food Stores. The sale included a lease-back of the 65,000 SF store and fueling station to GIANT.
Scott Bradbury’s Vintage Business Park Would Serve Plain Sect Enterprises, Others
Monday, May 13th, 2019 at 1:18 PM
Plainly needed: Paradise business park would serve Plain-sect enterprises, others
TIM MEKEEL | Staff Writer
It’s a common dilemma in the Plain sect community of eastern Lancaster County.
A farmer or a farmer’s son starts a woodworking business on the family’s property to make gazebos, sheds, furniture or other products.
The business prospers. It needs to expand to meet demand, but zoning regulations prohibit that in an agricultural area.
So the family looks to move the business off the farm and into a vacant industrial building, or buy an industrial lot in the area and construct a new facility there.
But that too leads nowhere — no suitable buildings or lots are available. Now what?
To help solve that problem, a local airline pilot who grew up in Bird-in-Hand is proposing to develop the Vintage Business Park on a 62-acre property at 27 S. Vintage Road in Paradise Township.
The site, zoned commercial-industrial, is a half-mile south of Lincoln Highway East.
The park would have 20 lots ranging in size from 1.5 acres to 4.1 acres, though businesses could buy more than one, of course.
And while it would be tailored to Plain sect businesses that have maxed out their rural locations, it would be open to businesses with any kind of roots.
“The Vintage Road project addresses the critical shortage of industrial sites for small and on-farm businesses in eastern Lancaster County,” said John Biemiller of the Economic Development Company of Lancaster County.
Biemiller, director of business retention and expansion, said that finding or creating more industrial sites is “key to sustaining and growing our existing businesses.”
The state agrees.
The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority last week approved a $2.25 million loan for the venture, citing the benefit to “growing Plain sect and on-farm businesses … in eastern Lancaster County.”
EDC Finance, a sister organization of the Economic Development Company, helped to secure the loan.
Developing the site would cost about $50 million to $75 million, including the cost of the land, building infrastructure such as roads and sewer lines, and erecting buildings, said project spokesman Scott Bradbury.
About 100 to 200 people would work at the businesses in the park, according to PIDA.
Local developer
The developer is M Land Develop LLC, owned by county resident Myron Stoltzfus.
Stoltzfus’ LinkedIn page shows he’s a pilot for American Airlines and a principal in M Construction, a builder of structures for the mushroom industry.
In a statement, Stoltzfus said he learned about the lack of industrial sites in eastern Lancaster County through his “personal and business relationships” in the area.
“My hope is that the project will benefit the Plain sect who have on-farm businesses to grow and expand for future generations. I also believe the lots will appeal to other Lancaster County businesses that are looking to build larger facilities, but have not been able to do so due to the overall lack of available sites in Lancaster County.”
A local authority on Plain sects here agrees the need is pronounced.
“Rural zoning doesn’t accommodate (business expansions) …,” said Steven Nolt, senior scholar at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. “Having another place to grow would be welcomed” by Plain sect businessmen facing that challenge.
Bradbury, a senior vice president at Lancaster-based U.S. Commercial Realty, and other Realtors here have long lamented the lack of available industrial properties.
“It’s a countywide problem,” Bradbury said. “There’s hardly anything available.” And the scarcity is driving up the price of the few industrial parcels on the market, he added.
Leased to farmer
M Land has had the tract under agreement for nearly two years, Bradbury said. He declined to name the land owners, but public records show they are John and Rebecca King, of Leola.
The land is being leased to an Amish dairy and crop farmer.
Bradbury is handling the sale of the parcel to M Land. Assuming the project wins township approval, the land would be divided into lots; Bradbury would handle their sale to the park’s occupants.
He declined to disclose the prices of the lots.
The proposal is in the early stages of municipal review, with a preliminary land development plan soon to go before the township supervisors for a conditional approval, which township planners have supported.
Despite being early in the approval process, Bradbury says interest from local businesses already is “very strong.”
Bradbury said he’s had “numerous conversations” with owners of area woodworking, metal fabricating and other businesses, both Plain sect and not. “They’re all excited about this,” he said.
Vintage Business Park could accommodate about 510,000 square feet worth of buildings, he said. For comparison, that’s roughly the size of 10 football fields.
Depending on the pace of the township approval process, Bradbury hopes groundbreaking could be held late this year or in spring 2020.
“Everybody is working to help this project through,” said Nick Lopez, township zoning officer. “We try to be as business friendly as possible,” while making sure a project meets the requirements of township ordinances.
Village growth area
Bradbury said the site is well suited for a business park.
Besides being appropriately zoned and near a main road, the parcel is within the village growth area as defined by the Lancaster County Planning Commission’s Places 2040 plan, he noted.
The developer would need to extend a public sewer line to the site, according to Bradbury.
M Land also expects to widen South Vintage Road in the vicinity of the business park, he said, though the particulars remain to be determined.
Several other aspects of the project remain to be figured out as well, as is typical for industrial projects at this point of the process.
Since the site lacks public water, the developer is assessing the capacity of an aquifer there, Bradbury said. That would determine how many employees could be supported, Lopez said.
In addition, the township is paying its engineer, Rettew Associates, $9,400 to take a look at two traffic matters, said Dennis Groff, a township supervisor and its roadmaster.
Rettew, said Groff, is evaluating the nearby intersection of South Vintage Road and Route 741, “to see what needs to be done to handle the business park’s traffic.”
In the same way, Rettew also is evaluating the width, durability and strength of the stretch of South Vintage Road past the park, Groff said.
Just Announced: Mike Wagner Assists in the Sale of Property on State Road to Kellogg’s
Thursday, April 4th, 2019 at 10:51 AM
Tim Mekeel, Lancaster Online
An East Hempfield Township farm at State Road and Route 283 has drawn the attention of developers for decades.
Since 1980, developers have envisioned it as the future site of everything from a hot-dog factory to a new town (with its own train station), a package-delivery terminal and an aquatic center.
None panned out, for various reasons. But now something has.
A developer is constructing an immense distribution center — bigger than Spooky Nook Sports — for Kellogg on the property, LNP has learned.
The company on Wednesday acknowledged that it will be leasing the site, ending a year of secrecy about the occupant of the jumbo structure.
“Kellogg can confirm tenancy,” said an anonymous spokesman for the company — which not coincidentally has a cereal-manufacturing plant across the street.
Construction began in the fall. A November opening is expected. Public records indicate the project cost will be at least $40 million.
A township official said the 905,000-square-foot facility is expected to have 125 employees; others have pegged the future workforce at 150.
More to come next door
The distribution center will anchor an 88-acre development named State Road Commerce Park, proposed by Lancaster developer Phil Frey and his three siblings.
The single, big distribution center is the third version of the park to be filed by the Freys with the township since 2015, as they adjusted their plan to meet the needs of prospective tenants.
Its proximity to Route 283 is being enhanced with a two-year, $18.5 million project replacing the bridges over Route 283 and Amtrak tracks. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is doing the work.
And the site is zoned for development.
Handling the sale of the land to Clarion Partners was Mike Wagner of U.S. Commercial Realty, Patrick Lafferty of CBRE and Gerry Blinebury at Cushman & Wakefield. Wagner said he didn’t know who the tenant is.
State Road Commerce Park was preceded by at least four potential uses, according to LNP files.
The hot-dog plant, announced by Kunzler & Co. in 1980, would have replaced its Manor Street site. The new town named Independence was proposed by Charter Homes in 2005.
A year later, Federal Express proposed a regional hub there for its FedEx Ground operation. In 2015, developers of a regional aquatic center, with swimming pools and stores, eyed the site.
Congratulations to Michael Wagner for Assisting in the Sale of 1640 Crooked Oak Drive to Penn State Health!
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 at 12:52 PM
By: Heather Stauffer
Less than a month after opening its first major patient-care site in Lancaster County, Penn State Health has purchased land for a second.
The Hershey-based system recently paid $2.4 million for a 3.3-acre plot of land near Routes 30 and 222 in Manheim Township, according to courthouse records.
Penn State Health spokeswoman Megan Manlove said in an email Tuesday that the site “is part of our commitment to growing our community network and expanding clinical services in Lancaster County.”
“We are still determining what services will be offered there, so there isn’t a definitive timeline or additional detail to offer at this time,” she wrote.
The highly visible site at 1640 Crooked Oak Drive, off Eden Road, comes with a land development plan that was approved by the township 10 years ago.
That plan calls for a three-story, 56,000-square-foot office building and 215 parking spaces, according to marketing materials from U.S. Commercial Realty, whose Dwight and Mike Wagner listed the site for sale.
Construction industry sources estimate it would cost about $8 million to $11 million to do site work and build a structure that size. That estimate excludes furniture and equipment.
The tract is zoned I-1, an industrial designation. Medical and dental offices, as well as professional offices, are allowed by right on land zoned I-1, according to the township zoning ordinance.
Penn State Health bought the parcel on Jan. 30 from an investment group led by local developer Phil Frey. Frey, best known as a developer of the Shoppes at Belmont, declined to comment on the transaction.
The Crooked Oak site is a little over 5 miles from Penn State Health’s first big presence in Lancaster County, the Lime Spring Outpatient Center.
The 76,000-square-foot outpatient center opened in January along Noll Drive and Rohrerstown Road in East Hempfield Township, consolidating five existing offices and adding about a dozen specialty services.
That facility followed its 2017 purchase of what had been the county’s largest independent physician practice group, with about 100 providers.
Penn State Health is best known for its adult and children’s hospitals on its main Hershey campus.
The health system also owns St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading and recently got final permission to build a new 108-bed hospital in Cumberland County.
Penn State Health doesn’t have a hospital in Lancaster County, but does boast eight primary practices here in addition to those practicing from the Lime Spring Outpatient Center.
Penn State Health also signed a strategic partnership with insurer Highmark in 2017.
The two said they plan to invest a combined $1 billion over the next several years, including the Lime Spring facility, the hospital to be built in Cumberland County, and expansions to the emergency room and the children’s hospital at the Hershey campus.
In the past, leaders have also discussed building an Innovations Pavilion with research labs and teaching space for the medical school that’s on the same campus as the two hospitals and the system’s business offices.
Staff Writer Tim Mekeel contributed to this story.