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BPG gets $1M site prep grant for I-495 warehouse
WILMINGTON – Buccini/Pollin Group (BPG), a leading commercial real estate development in Delaware, may be best known for its apartment and office buildings, but it will soon venture into new territory with the development of an industrial site in the South Market Street corridor. The firm plans to continue its redevelopment of that stretch of.
DPP seeks to raise Site Readiness Grant Fund limits
BEAR – Two years after the launch of the Site Readiness Fund to support the development of speculative commercial projects around the state, Delaware’s public-private economic development organization wants to raise the limit on that aid. In 2021, Gov. John Carney’s administration pushed the state legislature to create a fund for grants, loans or other.
ChristianaCare donates $1M to local nonprofits
WILMINGTON – ChristianaCare donates $1 million to 19 local nonprofit organizations that provide health services for communities in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. “In order to improve health equity and accelerate progress in addressing the social drivers of health, we need partners,” Bettina Tweardy Riveros, chief public affairs officer and chief health equity officer at ChristianaCare, said. “While ChristianaCare provides excellent health care, we also understand that we are not the experts on every social driver of health. And that’s why we are committed to strengthening these organizations and enhancing their ability to make a positive impact. Together, we are creating health in the neighborhoods and communities we serve.”
New study to focus on statewide freight rail access
DOVER — More than a year after completing an inventory of Kent County land with access to rail, the Dover/Kent Metropolitan Planning Organization is now leading efforts for a statewide rail study. Last week, Dover/Kent MPO Executive Director Marilyn Smith updated regional transportation and area planners on efforts her office is leading in a rail.
MBNA veteran Rhodes named new Discover CEO
WILMINGTON – Michael Rhodes, a veteran banking executive who spent more than a decade in the First State earlier in his career, has been named the next president and CEO of Discover Bank. Currently the head of personal banking in Canada for Toronto-based TD Bank, Rhodes spent more than...
Beebe raises over $120K to combat opioid epidemic
LEWES – The 3rd Annual Beebe Goes Purple Guest Bartending event raised $122,526 for the Beebe Healthcare’s Go Purple Fund. The fund will raise awareness, education efforts, prevention, and recovery to help combat the opioid epidemic in Sussex County. “Beebe Goes Purple started because our young professionals group...
Wilmington-area machine shop gets first MISI grant
WILMINGTON – A Wilmington-area machine shop was the state’s first recipient of a Facility Modernization Investment Support Initiative (MISI) grant on Monday. High-Tech Machine, a 32-year-old specialty machine shop in the Lewis Commercial Center between Newport and Wilmington, has learned that it will soon lose customers because it doesn’t have the latest technology. The precision.
NiKang partners with Roche on liver cancer drug study
WILMINGTON – NiKang Therapeutics, quietly one of the most-promising clinical stage biotech companies in Delaware focused on cutting-edge cancer treatments, has signed a new collaboration agreement with the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche to study on a deadly liver cancer. NiKang, which is based at the Delaware Innovation Space at...
Delaware joins Colorado-led state retirement savings program
DOVER — Delaware has opted to join Colorado’s interstate consortium of state-run retirement savings programs, bringing the First State the ability to bring a state-run retirement program online faster than originally planned. The state and Colorado announced the partnership on Monday, marking Delaware the second to join the...
Gore heiress donates $6M+ to Nemours orthopedics
WILMINGTON – Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware Valley will now have two endowed nationally recognized orthopedic surgeons thanks to a $6.75 million donation from the heiress of the founders of W. L. Gore & Associates. The funding from Elizabeth W. Snyder, the daughter of Gore founders Bill and Genevieve...
Delaware launches CNA tuition program for state facilities
DOVER — Delaware has launched a tuition incentive program to attract certified nursing assistants (CNAs) in the state, covering tuition up to $3,000 per student to increase the workforce for state-run facilities. The Delaware Department of Human Resources has contracted with Bear Professional Institute, the Delaware Skills Center, and...
Leadership Delaware announced 2024 class
WILMINGTON — Leadership Delaware, Inc. (LDI) has selected thirty-one fellows for the Class of 2024, LDI’s 16th class. In the year-long program, participants meet and hear from over 150 speakers, each prominent and accomplished Delaware leaders from across the state, who present on topics and issues related to government, the legislature, healthcare, education, finance and banking, the nonprofit sector, life sciences, corporate governance, agriculture, energy, and more. The program challenges participants to rise to ever higher levels of impact and accomplishment in each of the following three areas: their career field and profession, the nonprofit sector, and government and politics.
Delaware Journal of Public Health
The Delaware Journal of Public Health is delighted to partner with Delaware Business Times to raise awareness around public health matters, and to educate the community from legislators and policy makers to business leaders and the general population. In 2015 the Delaware Journal of Public Health was launched. The Journal...
People on the Move: Dec. 8
People on the Move is a rundown of recent hirings, promotions, appointments and other notable movements by professionals in the state. If you’re interested in submitting an entry, please contact news@delawarebusinesstimes.com. Modern Healthcare has named ChristianaCare President and CEO Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH, one of the 100 Most...
Daniels + Tansey acquired by mega investment firm
WILMINGTON – Independent registered investment advisory firm Daniels + Tansey has been acquired by Creative Planning, a well-known mega firm that has been growing quickly in recent years. Headquartered in the Delle Donne Corporate Center, partners Christopher “Kit” Daniels and DeVon Daniels founded Daniels + Tansey in 2001. The firm specializes in integrated financial advisory,
QPS sells neuropharma unit, expands U.S. lab
NEWARK – QPS, a leading contract research organization (CRO) focused on drug development, recently divested its overseas neuropharmacology business unit while also expanding a Missouri research facility. Headquartered in the Delaware Technology Park in Newark, QPS was founded by DuPont Pharma alum Ben Chien and a handful of employees...
Dover Speedway improves camping lots ahead of 2024 race
DOVER — Capitalizing on the COVID-spurred camping boom, the Dover Motor Speedway has added nearly 1,000 new lots, some with electric hookup, ahead of the NASCAR tripleheader weekend next year. The operators of the Monster Mile racetrack announced in late November it had finished creating or expanding camping lots...
Milford Walmart to pilot breast cancer screening service
MILFORD – To expand breast cancer screening, RadNet, a national radiology company, will launch a screening unit that can utilize artificial intelligence in an 18-month pilot program Friday at the Walmart in Milford. RadNet and Delaware Imaging Network (DIN) have collaborated to launch MammogramNow, a breast cancer screening technology,...
Famed former DuPont CEO Woolard dies at 89
WILMINGTON – Edgar “Ed” S. Woolard Jr., the former CEO and chair of DuPont who led the company through tremendous restructuring in the early 1990s and emerged stronger for it, died Monday. He was 89. A cause of death was not disclosed by his family, saying only...
Legislators examine data on Delaware housing crisis
DOVER – As new data reveals the depths of Delaware’s housing crisis, 20 State Senate and House of Representatives members met Wednesday to examine several of the latest state housing reports ahead of the 2024 legislative session. “Safe and affordable housing is necessary infrastructure for building thriving. And...
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