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Allentown Downtown Looking Up Thanks to Neighborhood Improvement Zone

Several years of hard work and lots of political heavy lifting have produced no fewer than eight game-changing construction projects, including a mixed-use development, an 11-story office tower and an arena, that will be completed by 2014. 

Q&A: Eric Darr, President of Harrisburg University

There's nothing new about the recently appointed school president, and expansion will be his focus for the growing science and technology institution.

Big Business in Bikes in Pittsburgh, Philly and Beyond

Entrepreneurs in cities across the country are pedaling toward profits and spreading the gospel of bicycle. 

Philadelphia's Breadboard Sets Up Shop at Intersection of Art and Science

This innovative arm of the Science Center argues that creativity is essential to scientific discovery, while also giving artists and students access to the latest high-tech tools.

Come For the Health Care, Stay For the Community-Building

When the Spectrum Community Health Center opens in July, it will dramatically increase access to health care in its West Philly neighborhood.

Pittsburgh's Big Burrito: Meet the Chef Who Helped Established City's Dining Scene

As corporate chef for Big Burrito, the restaurant group credited with starting the transformation of the Pittsburgh food scene, Bill Fulller knows how big-city restaurants should work. 

GovLove: Ben Franklin Tech. Partners Celebrates 30 Years

Dick Thornburgh and Tom Ridge joined Tom Corbett and dozens of supporters to recognize the organization's successes.

Lehigh Valley Gives Big Assist on State's Silver Shovel Award

Three projects there totaling $215 million and creating nearly 800 jobs helped Pennsylvania toward the top of the list.

PA WILDS: Endurance Events Flourish, Boost Local Economies

Athletes are revving up places, races like Green Monster Trail, Pine Creek and Chinklacamoose.

KE-TV: Recent AlphaLab Grads Talk About Why Program Works

The Pittsburgh-based program's 10th graduating class hits the ground running after $25,000 in funding and four months of hard work.

Pittsburgh Girl's Jewelry Making Business Earns Entrepreneurial Kudos

Fourteen year-old Nariah White's business, Nariah's Fabulous Jewelz, will be among many young entrepreneurs' ventures on display next week at the Rivers Club.

Keystone Edge is on Break for Memorial Day; New Edition Coming May 30

Catch up on Pennsylvania's latest and greatest and Keystone Edge will return from the Memorial Day break with a new edition on May 30.

Governor's ImPAct Awards Honors Pennsylvania's Best Businesses

More than 700 turned out in Hershey to honor the state's most impactful companies.

Inventing the Future: From Original Idea to Billions

Philadelphia's fertile entrepreneurial environment has produced world class tech and science companies. 

Need Successful Women Mentors? Pittsburgh's Got 'Em

There's no better time for women to own a business in Pittsburgh. More than ever, resources for mentoring women are helping them bust through barriers and grow, grow, grow.

Pennsylvania's Five Coolest Green Buildings

Our resident design expert takes us to some of our state's most impressive green buildings and explains why they're so special.

More than 20 from Pennsylvania Make Fortune 500

Chesterbrook's AmeriSource Bergen is the top PA company, while Canonsburg's Consol Energy sees the biggest improvement.

TEEM Pittsburgh: Transitioning into Entrepreneurship

Transitioning Employees to Entrepreneurs in Motion launches in Pittsburgh with hopes of expanding to SBDCs across the state.

KE-TV: Visitor Spending in PA Wilds Grows to More Than $1B

Spending is up more than 11 percent, the PA Wilds Artisan Trail has doubled its locations and 13 PA Wilds award-winners were named last week.

Inventing the Future: Salvation at the Philadelphia Navy Yard

Building 661, a crumbling, long-forgotten structure, is being reborn as the Center for Building Energy Science. 

Heavenly Reuse: Five Cool Pittsburgh Church Rehabs

Prayers are being answered across the city, from the Church Brew Works, with its vats of Pipe Organ Ale and Celestial Gold, to Mr. Small's Funhouse.

Inventing the Future: Saving Homes, Fighting Blight in Philly

Part detective, part hostage negotiator, Project Rehab's Ryan Spak is reviving University City's abandoned properties, and saving taxpayer dollars in the process.

Un-paved Paradise: Pittsburgh Parking Lot Now a Park

Princeton elms and oak leaf hydrangea now buttress a giant green wall in a Cultural District parking lot.
 

Pennsylvania's Cheese Stands Alone: Three Profiles in Innovation

Cheesemakers in Erie and Chester Counties are stirring an industry that rarely changes.

BrazenKitchen: Making Healthy Food Sexy in Pittsburgh

A former tech marketer and venture capitalist got serious about food and the result is healthy and delicious.

Pennsylvania Educators, Students Pick Up STEAM

The inserton of art into the established and recently emphasized STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) movement is sweeping the state.

Innovation Cafe: Capital Region Entrepreneurial Class Brewing

This event series is pulling in Central's Pa.'s surprisingly vast technology and life sciences assets to promote commercialization successes.

Whose Website is it Anyway? Philadelphia legal firm tames new frontier

The Wild West-like world of online intellectual property and new media calls for a different kind of sheriff -- enter Greising Law, a firm making a name for itself representing startups, artists and emerging tech companies.

ReClaim Northside: A Pittsburgh Lesson in Vacant Lot Renewal

This GTECH program not only teaches step-by-step how to complete a green project, but it also helps advocates create community change. 

The Rise of the Rest: Pittsburgh Among Cities Where Startups Will Bloom

Tech observers say this year is prime time for startups to bloom in unexpected cities—like Pittsburgh.  

Inventing the Future: Making Scientists Outside the Lab

"I Love My Science Job" hopes to spark young people to pursue careers in life sciences, a vital element of Philadelphia's new economy.

Modena Makers: Pennsylvania's Tiny, Groovy & Green Borough

A few eco-conscious businesses are remaking this Chester County town, revitalizing a close-knit community's stagnant economy.

Jobs First: Gov. Corbett Takes Pennsylvania to Brazil, Chile

A trade agreement, new jobs and heightened global prospects for 19 Pennsylvania companies made the 10-day trip an impactful one.

54 Hours: Surviving Startup Weekend Pittsburgh

Entrepreneurs got by on "little sleep and crap food" last weekend, and social media platform ShareCloset earned the top prize.

Tracking Dollars Spent, New Map Shows a Divided Pennsylvania

A physicist uses data to illustrate effective communities by tracking the flow of dollars spent, and Pa. is split in half.
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Inventing the Future: Rethinking Market Street in University City

The Porch at 30th Street Station sparked a makeover of a key stretch of Market St., and this vital Philly corridor will only get more vibrant.

Awesome Pittsburgh: One Foundation, One Goal

The local forces behind the global movement are aiming to bring awesome projects to life, having made 15 awards in its first year.

Fred Beste, Board Chair of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern PA

This longtime venture capitalist has seen first-hand the transformation of Bethlehem from steel and trucks to tech and entrepreneurship.

Adventures in TechVentures, the Bethlehem Incubator That Keeps Growing

The highly decorated and recently expanded facility has created many success stories like Saladax and Texas Instruments Lehigh Valley.

Micro Interventional Devices

The company is looking to commercialize its technology that will revolutionize common heart procedures by 2014.

Harrisburg's Art Spaces Help Create $54.5M Impact

Moviate, MakeSpace, Metropolis and more are creating a destination for art and performance.

KE-TV: Meet BaldyBeard, the York-Made Beer You'll Love Unconditionally

With brews like My Yammy Weiss and Saison Says, this York  microbrewery is the latest startup to move beyond Kickstarter.

Sharing Love: Social Media the Newest Tool in Farmers' Shed

Love 'n Fresh Flowers' Jennie Love uses Pinterest and Facebook to grow her business and brighten up weddings throughout the region. 

Feed Me, Kate: Pittsburgh Chef's Italian Restaurant Wows

She opened her Highland Park restaurant on the night of Snowmaggedon, launched a successful Kickstarter  to expand and is now established as one of the best and brightest chefs in town.

PA WILDS: Bradford Buddies Put PA Snowboards on the Map

A trio of snowboarders have turned their passion for the sport into one of the Pennsylvania Wilds' most successful businesses.

Inventing the Future: At Monell, It's a Matter of Taste

By studying taste and smell, local scientists hope to unlock keys to managing obesity, detecting disease, tracking genetic traits and managing trauma.

Great Northeast: PA's Small Town Downtowns Looking Up

Places like East Stroudsburg and Hawley are building momentum, while hidden gems are found all over this region's rural landscape.

Training Day: Land Banking in Pennsylvania Starts with These People

A day-long, statewide training session in State College hopes to position Pennsylvania communities for land banking success.

Taking Design Out of the Studio and onto the Streets

Alex Gilliam's youth-focused Tiny WPA is a Works Progress Administration for small-scale urban innovation that's helping reimagine Philadelphia's underused spaces.

Share It: The Official Guide to Coworking in Pennsylvania

Nearly 20 spaces are thriving, advising and specializing, and more communities are building as we speak.

KE-TV: Meet the Ambler 17 Year-Old Who Could Help Revolutionize Drug Design

Jordan Kellenbach's work centers on a bioinformatics study that could break new ground in predicting protein binding for drug therapy.

Q&A: Kasey Wherley, TEDx Grandview Ave

Pittsburgh now offers several local TEDx events, from TEDxCMU to TEDxPittsburgh. After a successful debut downtown, we caught up with the person who got TEDxGrandviewAve together and got the inside scoop.

Inventing the Future: Working towards the next cancer breakthrough

Local scientists from Penn Medicine and Adaptimmune are at the forefront of research into T-Cell immunotherapy, a treatment that could potentially cure some types of cancer.

Digital Funds, Focus Grow BCTV's Impact on Reading

The news is being selected by the community instead of old white guys sitting in a newsroom, says one BCTV citizen journalist.

Sun and Earth: How a Small, Green King of Prussia Company Keeps Up with Household Cleaner Kings

Andy Clibanoff has led major enhancements to the company's products, e-commerce and marketing efforts.

Mover Over Big Guy, Braddock's Lady Fetterman Has Ideas

Gisele Fetterman is giving her famous mayor husband a run for the money with various impactful projects.

PA WILDS: Wineries Thrive Among Elk, Forests and Creeks

This region's wine producers are creating jobs, innovative marketing plans and local buzz with lovely reds, delightful whites and some elk magic.

LOOK UP: Pennsylvania's 5 Coolest Buildings

Glass, straw bales and good old-fashioned PA steel help make these new buildings among the commonwealth's most impressive.

Anchor Institutions Help Shape Pittsburgh's New Look

Long a hub due to the concentration of universities, hospitals and research centers, the city's Oakland section is now impacting many other neighborhoods.

Inventing the Future: Dynamic Public Spaces Will Transform Drexel's Campus, Neighborhood

Thanks to an Updated Master Plan, Drexel aims to spend half a billion dollars on development in the coming years, urbanizing and greening their campus. University City will never be the same again.

Bottled Up: Startup Weekend Lancaster's Global Impact

Amazi, a free mobile app that tells consumers where to find places to fill their water bottles, emerged as the winner from a diverse field.

Step Inside Philadelphia's Gym for Innovators

The open-to-all high-tech workshop NextFab Studio has new digs with 3D printers, industrial textile machines and revolutionary software.

Meet Seven Innovators Changing Pittsburgh Education

They're launching big, bold ideas that are changing the face of education in Pittsburgh, from fighting inequity to preventing gun violence to making teachers more effective.

KE-TV: Pennsylvania-Made Coaster Charges Your Smartphone

Tommy Joseph's New Castle-based Epiphany Labs has launched a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign that's about to crush its goal.

Master Planners: Why Philadelphia's Navy Yard is a Leader in Sustainability Strategies

With its Master Plan update, the Navy Yard pushes the envelope on green development and stormwater management.

Inspiring Local Girls Headline Gathering of World-Changing Pittsburgh Teens

Wait until you meet these change makers--all of them teenagers, and all of them appearing at the Be Inspired: Girls Can Change the World event this Saturday. 

Golden Opportunity: Luzerne County Jeweler Strikes Chord with Dave Matthews Band

His custom DMB pieces are almost as popular as the band's signature hits, and the relationship has elevated Marc Williams' business.

Pennsylvania Has Enormous Untapped Potential for Investment, Says Venture Capitalist Kush Parmar

5AM Ventures recently led a $23M investment in a Radnor biotech firm. Principal Kush Parmar discusses the investment and PA's venture climate.

Wondergy: Providing the Energy for STEM to Take Root

Marketing entrepreneur Ken Fink combines his loves for science, education and theater into a fast-moving, deep-diving interpretation of scientific explanations.

Pennsylvania's STEM Factor: How Higher Ed Can Help

Multiple initiatives are doing well to support and grow STEM accessibility in K-12, but one college administrator believes more can be done.

Follow This Woman Into the Pennsylvania Wilds

As the small business ombudsman for 2 million acres of rural Pennsylvania known as the PA Wilds, Tataboline Enos is on top of hidden gems.

Philadelphia artist's 3D murals will enliven vacant spaces using light, sound and video

This fall, artist and curator Sean Stoops will invite the whole city to 'Animated Architecture,' an immersive 3D video installation series.

Pennsylvania Has the Power to Flip Switch on Electric Cars

As they become more common nationally, the wheels are in motion in Pennsylvania for accelerating electric-car adoption.

Philadelphia Startup at the Forefront of a Consumer Electronics Revolution

Want to roll up a tablet computer and slip it into your pocket? A marvelous new carbon material developed at UPenn could make that a reality.

Four Under 40 Who Are Transforming Pittsburgh

From opening a hot new cafe off Market Square to representing voters in Harrisburg, this fast foursome is making a better region.

It's in the Bag for Pennsylvania Artists at The Grammys

A boutique publicist and a music producer from Philadelphia are working on a Grammys week fundraiser in Los Angeles.

Youth Opportunity Index: See How Pennsylvania Ranks

Big gains are made by Allegheny, Butler and Union Counties according to a report from a bipartisan group addressing the nation's opportunity gap.

Alphabet Soup: City of Asylum Takes On Pittsburgh's Most Diverse Neighborhoods

Located in the heart of one of the city’s densest and most diverse neighborhoods, Alphabet City is close to other City of Asylum projects.

High-End Apartment Project Displays Gritty Kensington's Potential in Philly

These guys are transforming an industrial relic into loft living, a magnet for urban pioneers.

State-Owned Universities Get First Commercialization Success

An East Stroudsburg University-developed kit to test ticks for the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could reach a half-million sales in 2014.

The Best Career and Technical School in the U.S. is in Schnecksville

The Lehigh Career & Technical Institute has deep connections with industries in the region.

Meet Pittsbugh's Top Twenty- Something Entrepreneurs

Meet a new breed of young Pittsburgh entrepreneurs -- some still in college -- who hope to make a mark on the world. So far so good.

Startup's High-Tech Food Safety Tool Attracts Attention and Investment

Imagine if testing for tainted food was as simple as checking a handheld device. Pennsylvania innovator Invisible Sentinel is making that happen while saving lives.

KE-TV: Building Local Living Economies with Pennsylvania's Finest

When Judy Wicks and Drew Arata talk sustainability, people should listen. Their efforts in Philadelphia and Media, respectively, have had impacts beyond their region.

Invite Only: The Force Behind Girl Geek Dinners

This Philadelphia tech maven's events make even techies-in-training feel comfortable.

Pittsburgh Tech Companies to Watch in 2013: The Life Sciences Edition

The city's brightest are taking on some of the most daunting challenges of our time, from halting Alzheimer' and cancer to streamlining surgical processes.

Why Are Artists Flocking to Oil City?

They're revitalizing this Venango County outpost that is coming back once again.

KE-TV: Pennsylvania's Largest Wind Farm Now Operating on a Mountain in Wyoming County

Some 88 turbines lining the 9,000 acre, mountaintop site in Wyoming County are now turning, generating 144MW of electrical power.
 

Inventing the Marketplace: Analytical Graphics Inc. Plots Growth

A software company that began in a living room in 1989 now has 250 employees, $50M in annual sales and a flagship product with wide-ranging applications. Read more.

DCED's Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Investment Talks Service

The serial entrepreneur from Bradford left the private sector to serve the needs of entrepreneurs big and small. Read more.

Making Marketers More Agile

When Ben Franklin funded the company $250,000 in 2008, it had three employees. Now it has over $20M in investment and 130 employees. Read more.

Marijuana Legalization Legislation Coming This Month in Pennsylvania Could Hold $1B Economic Impact

State Senator Daylin Leach is sponsoring a bill that would make Pennsylvania like Colorado and Washington, which recently made pot legal.

Innovation Nation: The Science Center turns 50

From its perch in University City, Philadelphia, the Science Center continues to invent the future.

New Year, New Life for Governor's School

Suspended after 2008, the PA Governor's School for the Sciences returns after a vigorous alumni campaign and a Department of Education grant.

Pittsburgh's Top 10 Tech Companies to Watch for 2013

One helped both presidential campaigns, while another forecasts doubling in size and revenues. Find out who they are and what's next.

KE-TV: Pitt-Bred Mind-Control Robotics Feed Paraplegic

Incorporating electrodes implanted in the brain, this medical breakthrough has great promise.

Happy Holidays: 'Tis the Season for a Break

We'll return in 2013 with a new edition on Jan. 10.

Postgreen: See What Philadelphia's Modern Urban Planners Are Developing Next

Two of the firm's affordable, energy efficient and mixed-use projects are coming to Frankford Ave.

Williamsport's Art Scene is Batting a Thousand

First Friday, the local film office, a creative incubator and a variety of artists are delivering a new pitch in Lycoming County.

About Place: Year on the Edge Reveals Pennsylvania's Thriving Locales

Sharon, Lewisburg, Lancaster and Bethlehem are among the state's fastest-growing -- and highly read -- locations.