Goggleworks Center for the Arts and Sly Fox Brewing Co. will partner to open The Den restaurant on the GoggleWorks campus, located at 201 Washington St. in downtown Reading.

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.

Wyomissing-based Fox Theatres has announced that it will be closing Fox East, its four-screen movie theater in the Reading Mall.

The first phase of an $8.2 million redevelopment project in downtown Reading has launched. Leopold Sanchez, owner of the building to be redeveloped at North 4th and Elm Streets, will convert the vacant 40,000-square-foot property into a two-story commercial space with three different businesses.

Alvernia University is investing in Reading's future workforce with the Reading Collegiate Scholarship Program.

Penn State Health St. Joseph has been given $425,000 to establish a nursing simulation lab and provide funding for nursing education at the St. Joseph’s downtown campus in Reading.

Crestmont Heritage, a residential home builder in Reading, has completed the first of a new 10-unit residential housing project in the 300 block of Crestmont Street in Reading’s Millmont/18th Ward neighborhood.

The Reading Eagle is reporting that its parent company has attracted a qualified bidder to purchase the company out of bankruptcy.