To celebrate 50 seasons that the Philadelphia Phillies have been affiliated with the Reading Fightin Phils – the longest affiliation in the minor leagues – the Fightins by opening day will debut its VIP Savage 61 Dugout Suite.

For $1.8 billion, North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. in August agreed to acquire Allentown-based National Penn Bancshares Inc.

A Berks County real estate investment trust plans to buy a Pittsburgh-area casino complex for $440 million.

Berks County has hit a major milestone. The county now has 700 farms in the Pennsylvania farmland preservation program after three farms were approved Thursday.

In the same week that DoubleTree by Hilton Reading is set to rise in downtown Reading, serving as a beacon of hope for Reading and Berks County – a cloud of uncertainty looms upon the announcement that within six months two prominent leaders in the economic development community are leaving their posts.

Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer announced that Lenin Agudo, the city’s director of community development, has stepped down after four years of spearheading much of the city’s downtown revitalization.

Developer Alan Shuman on Monday night followed through with his vow to present his plans, at a Reading City Council meeting, for the redevelopment of five key city-owned buildings on Penn Square in downtown Reading.