In July 2015, Lititz entrepreneur Steve Palmer proposed a shared co-working space on North Water Street, recruiting freelancers and small business owners to test demand before signing a lease.
In September 2014, Clair Global and Tait Towers opened the Rock Lititz Studio, a purpose-built rehearsal hall for touring productions that rises above Lancaster County farmland.
When the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open came to Lancaster Country Club, local businesses felt the impact right away, from a jeweler’s pop-up shop in the players’ tent to golfers browsing area stores.
In August 2015, Weis Markets added online ordering with in-store pickup at its South Broad Street store in Lititz, years before curbside grocery pickup became routine. Here is how it worked, and how grocery pickup has changed.
On March 17, 2020, Lititz-based Penn Cinema closed its flagship theater under Pennsylvania’s statewide shutdown order. A look back at the closure and how the Lititz movie house came back.
Jessica Butzer bought Bruno’s of Lititz in March 2020, days before the pandemic shutdown, kept it running on takeout and trays, added a food truck, then bought a second Bruno’s in Lancaster.
In August 2015, Cargill completed its purchase of ADM’s global chocolate business for $440 million. Weeks later it announced the closing of the Wilbur Chocolate plant in Lititz. A look at the deal and its local fallout.
Months after production ended at the Wilbur Chocolate plant in 2016, more than 1,000 lots of chocolate lines, tools and furniture from the North Broad Street factory went up for online auction.
In October 2015, Cargill announced it would close the Wilbur Chocolate plant on North Broad Street in January 2016. Residents mourned the end of a century of chocolate-making downtown. Here is what happened, and what came next.