With retail operations permitted as Lancaster County moves into the yellow phase Friday, shopping will resume at some major stores and outlet centers even as many stores have yet to announce their reopening plans. Here's the latest on some major shopping centers around Lancaster County: Park City Center Boscov’s, an anchor store at Park City Center, will be reopening 11 a.m. Saturday. The store will require customers to wear masks and practice social distancing. Its operating hours will be 11...

More than five years after the Iron Horse Inn closed in Strasburg, the owners of the property are wrapping up a renovation that’s turning the historic hotel and restaurant property into commercial and residential space. Rick and Denise Waller bought the restaurant in 2003 and subsequently renovated part of the property at 135 E. Main St. that originally opened as a hotel in 1880. But the Wallers closed the restaurant in January 2015, and decided last year to renovate it for office or...

SwitchVR, a virtual reality arcade in the Shops at Rockvale, is now permanently closed. Rick Palmer, who opened SwitchVR in November 2018, announced the decision June 1 week, saying the business closures meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 prompted the decision. “The ride was certainly bumpy but we were on a path that was smoothing out. Unfortunately, a large crater (covid 19) made it impossible for us to continue this journey,” Palmer wrote in a post on SwitchVR’s Facebook page. “We started...

In just over two days, more than 1,600 small businesses in Lancaster County placed orders for free personal protective equipment meant to help them operate safely through the COVID-19 pandemic. Available to the county’s 12,700 small businesses with up to 100 employees, the free PPE kits includes face masks, hand sanitizer, face shields, cleaning sprays and touchless thermometers. The kits, which typically ship within two to three business days, are pre-determined based on a company’s size and...

Women’s apparel and accessories retailer Versona opened last week at Park City Center. It takes a spot in the mall’s Fountain Shoppes, the strip of shops at the southwest corner of the mall which all have their own outdoor entrances. Under the “yellow phase” of Gov. Tom Wolf’s reopening guidelines, stores with outdoor entrances and exits can reopen. This guideline prevents most of Park City’s roughly 150 tenants from reopening. In addition to clothing, Versona, which employs 25 people, sells...