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Reading, PA – May 18, 2020 – The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA) today has released a comprehensive recovery initiative dubbed “Rebuilding Berks” that will provide planning tools to the Berks County business community to prepare for a full re-opening. This plan is a roadmap for Berks County businesses to travel the road to recovery.  The plan includes three, main areas of focus and is ...read more

Reading, PA – March 6, 2020 – The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA) Board of Directors announced today that it has named Jim Gerlach as President and CEO. GRCA is Berks County’s premier business resource for facilitating new and existing business expansion, project funding, redevelopment, business-to-business promotion, advocacy and workforce development. “We are thrilled to have Jim accept ...read more

Ground was broken Monday morning for the future medical school that will stand on what used to be a parking lot for the former VF Outlet Center in Wyomissing. The Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health is scheduled to open at The Knitting Mills for the 2020-21 academic year. According to local officials, it's part of a potential economic boom not only to Wyomissing and West ...read more

The 38 graduates of the Leadership Berks Class of 2019 filed one-by-one across the stage at the Crowne Plaza Reading in Wyomissing as their names, and the name of the company that sponsored each, poured through the loudspeaker. The list of sponsors, each of whom laid out $2,920, read like a who's who of community-minded organizations. The usual suspects were represented. East Penn ...read more

Henry Winkler first thought of acting for a living when he was growing up in New York City. However, there was a problem. “I was learning challenged from the beginning of my life,” he said. “They had to write my name on my tie. “I was bad at math. I was bad at writing. I couldn't spell. I was great at eating lunch.” Adding to the problem was little, or no, support at home. “If people were ...read more

A distillery and tasting room is expected to open soon on Penn Street in downtown Reading. Chris Flowers, owner and distiller of Reading Distilling Guild, has started construction at 503 Penn St. and hopes to be up and running by July. Flowers said Thursday that he has been planning the distillery and tasting room since last June. “Nothing is easy, but you got to work for some things,” he ...read more

In 2017, researcher Khaled Bahei-Eldin made a big career move to Berks County. He left Albany, N.Y., to take on a new role at EnerSys, the battery maker in Bern Township. Bahei-Eldin became the director for energy storage systems at EnerSys, joining the company’s product development efforts. Key to his transition in what could have been a distracting and difficult relocation process was the ...read more

Berks County Commissioner Chairman Christian Y. Leinbach "I really believe it is a shame on two counts. One, one of the critical aspects of a free society is a free press, and right now in Berks County the primary press entity is the Reading Eagle. "Under local ownership, there is a direct connection and desire to serve the local community. I'm not sure we're going to see the same thing if ...read more