Latinos in the Berks County area will soon have a new resource for job readiness training. The Berks Latino Workforce Development Corp., a nonprofit that will provide workforce development training for Latinos, is projected to begin providing services in the spring of 2020. 

Home prices are up and number of days a home is on the market is down in Berks County. Read more about what happening in Berks County real estate from the experts who were at the LVB Berks County Real Estate & Development Symposium 2019 here.

A former Santander Bank branch will give way to Jonestown Bank & Trust when the Lebanon County-based bank expands into the Berks market with a new branch in Robesonia early next year.

The Morgan School, billed as an upscale daycare, held a ribbon cutting on Oct. 29 to celebrate the new institution’s opening at 6120 Perkiomen Ave. in Exeter. The 6,300 square foot facility aims to focus on clients in the Exeter, Mt. Penn, Daniel Boone, Amity and Pottstown areas.

A former automotive dealership in Reading will be transformed into a mixed-use retail shopping center with the aid of an almost $3 million dollar tax credit. 

Tower Health, the Berks county-based health system, has announced that it is restructuring its nursing units at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia, and Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown, resulting in the elimination of 32 jobs at Chestnut Hill, and 33 at Pottstown.

The Manufacturers Resource Center,  a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating manufacturing jobs in eastern Pennsylvania, is sponsoring the fourth annual "What's So Cool About Manufacturing?" student video contest, in which 36 Berks and Schuylkill county student/manufacturer teams will compete this school year.

Alvernia University will offer students the opportunity to gain experiential learning opportunities from six local executives during the 2019-20 academic year through a newly expanded Executive-in-Residence Program.

Alvernia University has received a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education under the Strengthening Institutions Program. The program is designed to help colleges expand their capacity to serve low-income students by strengthening academic quality and fiscal stability.

Reading Hospital has partnered with MidPenn Legal Services to offer low-income hospital patients free legal advice and representation.