Reading Hospital has a new chief financial officer. Tower Health has named Mark Reyngoudt to the position at its flagship hospital. He will be in charge of health care finance, operations and strategy for the hospital in West Reading.

Four Berks County farms were among five farms to receive more than $1.8 million in support from the Pennsylvania First Industries Fund, two of which were to help with the recently announced expansion of Bell & Evans.

Thirty Alvernia students moved into the DoubleTree by Hilton Reading earlier this week to lower the number of students living on the university’s main campus, university officials announced. It also introduces students to downtown living, which is a goal of the university’s Reading CollegeTowne, a strategic model for economic development in Reading that was introduced last year.

The penalty was for the discharge of drilling fluid that included bentonite clay and water into Piney Creek and its tributaries during Sunoco’s horizontal drilling in the region between August of 2018 and August of 2019. The fine was part of a Consent Assessment of Civil Penalty signed earlier this month.

Wyomissing-based Good Life Companies is expanding. It recruited two independent financial adviser businesses to its platform with approximately $150 million in total client assets. 

Customers Bank has partnered with Alvernia University to become a sponsor of the university’s O’Pake Institute for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship.

Pamela Shupp Menet, who currently serves as vice president of external affairs for the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance, is taking over the newly created dual role of economic development director and deputy chief administration officer for Berks County.

After being closed since mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox Theatres of Wyomissing said that it will reopen Friday, Aug. 21, one day after national theater chain, AMC said it will be reopening.

Amazon will bring not one, but two, fulfillment centers to Berks County, adding about 1.6 million square feet of logistics space and likely hiring more than 1,000 workers, according to Berks County economic development officials.

Dr. Karen Restifo comes to Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where she served as associate dean of student affairs. She starts Sept. 1.