A new event, Top Tech Trends (and the leaders making it happen) is slated for May 20 at Capital One in Wilmington. The

event is presented by the Technology Forum of Delaware.

“Each year, futurists and tech consultants define the global technology trends that are changing the way we live and work.  We believe that the Delaware technology community is playing a surprisingly im-portant role in driving these trends,” a release from the Technology Forum stated.

The event is expected to include technology of-ferings from the University of Delaware, Christiana Care and others. Also appearing at the event will be technology leaders.

The release continued, “We believe that the Dela-ware technology community is playing a surpris-ingly important role in driving these trends forward.  Delaware area firms are inventing new technologies to enable these trends, others are leveraging new tech-nologies to create new products and services, and still others are making these new technologies accessible to the rest of us in the region.”

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Natural gas coming to DuPont Experimental Station. 6

Plastics plant, 154 jobs coming to Glasgow site. 3

Fiber network companies to merge 18

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Trends to be featured at the downtown Wilmington event include: - Internet of Things (Wearables and Connected Devices)- 3D printing and advanced manufacturing- Clean energy and sustainable technologies- Applications of technology in retail and banking- Analytics, big data and cloud computing- Immersive Content and Game Technology

Members of Tech Forum have identified these technologies and will honor and spotlight innovators in more than 10 trends and introduce more than 30 leaders in our community, many new to the public.

“The Technology Forum of Delaware is looking forward to our first Tech Trends event that will showcase the leaders and technology in our local area. This event will provide a unique forum for our members and community to experience the incredible innovation and creatively that we have right here in Delaware,” said Rick Sommer, chair of the Tech Forum.

The event will include demonstrations of some technologies and gets under way at 5:30 p.m. on the 20th..

Registration is online at  http://www.techforumde.org/event-1801227. 

The trends event comes after a successful Idea Challenge in February that drew a crowd of nearly 150.

Idea Challenge teams came up with ideas aimed at improving Wilmington and aiding young, tech-savvy residents moving to the city. The winning entry

featured a “Beacon” that would include everything from Wi FI access to video screen information on events at locations in downtown. The Technology Forum holds monthly education, information and networking events.

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Zacros America Inc. formally announced on Tuesday that it will move its Hedwin Division, along with 154 manufacturing jobs,

from Baltimore to at site in Glasgow.

It has been widely reported that Hedwin had settled on the Pencader Corporate Center site, which had been the site of a plastics company that moved operations elsewhere. Click here for Business Daily stories on Hedwin.

The relocation is a victory for Delaware, which has seen a steep decline in manufacturing employment since the state lost both auto plants in 2008 and 2009.

Hedwin was launched in Baltimore in 1946 and has been a pioneer in the packaging and containment industry. The company’s “Winstead Process” was developed for molten sheet thermoforming used to develop plastic heat-sealing for the company’s Cubitainer product line.

“The manufacturing sector of 2015 looks much different than the one of even a decade ago. Whether it’s a packaging and safety equipment maker in Seaford, a chicken processing plant in Milford or a pharmaceutical firm in Wilmington, Delaware is home to a wide variety of excellent companies

that offer well-paying jobs and are poised for future growth,” Gov. Jack Markell said. “Hedwin has a long history of innovation, and we look forward to helping them continue to break new ground over the years to come.”

Hedwin is a global provider of flexible and rigid packaging solutions for cosmetics, food, flavoring, industrial medical, pharmaceutical and sanitary markets. In 2014, the company was purchased by Fujimori Kogyo Co. Ltd., a Japanese converter of flexible films and packaging. During the same year, Hedwin became a division within Fujimori’s

subsidiary, Zacros America. The company has distributors in 36 cities nationwide and works closely with customers that include Healthcare Diagnostics, one of its new neighbors Pencader.

“When we looked at potential sites for Zacros America, Delaware had the best workforce and the right location,” said Maurice LeCompte, vice president and chief operating officer for the Hedwin Division of Zacros America. “We felt that Delaware wanted to promote manufacturing more than the other options we were considering. “

   

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Batteries included: SolarCity offers $1 billion fund for businessSolarCity has formally launched a fund that

includes an investment and expertise from financial services giant Credit Suisse.

The fund is expected to finance more than $1 bil-lion in commercial solar energy systems for business-es, schools and government organizations in the U.S.

Some systems are expected to use batteries that aim to reduce expensive electrical peak use charges that come when utilities have to buy electricity on the spot market.

Earlier this month, SolarCity opened its second Delaware operations center near Newark in an effort to gain more rooftop real estate at homes and busi-nesses in northern Delaware.

Solar City, which is based in northern California, opened an operations center in Seaford, DE about a year ago. The company has about 70 operations cen-ters.

In 2013, Solar City installed a commercial system in Delaware City in New Castle County. The system is expected to save the municipality $1 million over a 20-year period.

Delaware and the city of Wilmington rank as

among the largest solar power producers in the na-tion on a per person basis, thanks in part to large commercial and utility installations. SolarCity and Credit Suisse firt announced the commercial fund in February and began funding the first projects in late March. The fund, believed to be the largest of its kind, is expected to finance more than 300 mega-watts of new commercial solar projects over the next two years.

The 300 megawatts is roughly equivalent to the power production of a natural-gas powered gener-ating plant now under construction by Calpine in Dover or less than a third of the capacity of a larger gas-fired plan being buil by Old Dominion Electric

Cooperative about 25 miles west of Newark near Ris-ing Sun, MD. Old Dominion supplies, Greenwood-based Delaware Electric. It is the latest in a series of collaborations between SolarCity and Credit Suisse. The financial service giant is also involved in Solar-City’s new MyPower loan program. The program allows homeowners and businesses to finance systems with no money down, while sharing in the revenues from feeding power into the electric grid.

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The ribbon cutting at Delaware City.

MyPower marketing literature claims the program will allow home-owners and businesses to stabilize electric bills. Those bills have not gone down a graet deal, despite lower fuel prices, due to continuing in-creases in costs required in upgrading an aging electri-cal grid.

Critics have also claimed Delaware’s alternative en-ergy mandates have led to high electric rates that are hurting efforts to attract business.  

Those mandates include the increased use of so-lar energy. More recently, critics have softened their views on solar, due to a sharp reduction in cost and increased efficiency of panels.

The SolarCity fund will help businesses in installing systems such as ZS Peak, a mounting system that can allow SolarCity to reduce commercial project build time from multiple weeks to a few days, and De-mandLogic, a battery storage system that allows busi-nesses to further reduce energy costs by using stored electricity to meet periods of peak demand.

SolarCity’s chair and co-founder is Elon Musk, heads electric car maker Tesla.Tesla and Panasonic is building a $1 billion plant in Nevada that aims to reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of batteries

that are used in its automobiles. That technology is expected to to be used in batteries that could become the key to solar systems powering homes and busi-nesses after the sun goes down. The batteries could also be used in providing power during periods of peak demand, typically in the summer months. Over the longer term, batteries in a growing number of electric or hybrid automobiles could be used for stor-age of electrical power.

The University of Delaware is currently testing a vehicle to grid system using specially modified elec-tric BMW mini autos. Partners  in the project in-clude  NRG, which has a solar power operation and is one of Solar City’s competitors and PJM,  the grid operator for Delaware and other areas in the East and Midwest.

An array of  vehicle  solar batteries can store the equivalent of the energy usage for several homes. UD is looking for ways that this technology can be used to balance out supply and demand on the grid.

“Continuing technology improvements, cost reduc-tions and strong financing support from partners like Credit Suisse are making solar economically attractive to a growing number of businesses across the U.S.,” said Brad Buss, SolarCity’s chief financial officer. “So-larCity has installed more than 1,800 commercial

solar projects in 21 states—and we’ve barely scratched the surface of the addressable market.”

SolarCity installed more commercial solar capacity in the U.S. than any other provider in 2014, accord-ing to GTM Research’s most recent U.S. PV Leader-board. More information is online at www.solarcity.com and the company can be followed on Facebook & Twitter. Click here for Business Daily stories on solar power in our nearly 5,000-article archive.

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In coming weeks, Delmarva Power will begin a natural gas expansion project funded by DuPont Co. to establish service for the DuPont

Experimental Station near Wilmington.

The research site’s boilers use fuel oil, an energy source that was once less expensive than natural gas. Converting the DuPont Experimental Station to natural gas has environmental benefits, according to a Delmarva release.

The conversion will eliminate sulfur dioxide emissions from the site and is expected to result in a nearly 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. That is t equal to removing 4,500 cars from highways. It will also eliminate 1,000 oil tank truck deliveries to the DuPont Experimental Station each year. Total cost of the project was not disclosed.

The project was approved by regulatory authorities including but not limited to DNREC and DelDOT. The station is near Brandywine Creek. As new gas discoveries came into production in Pennsylvania, natural gas prices have become less volatile than in the past, leading industrial companies to look at converting their boilers to the fuel.

Construction is expected to alter traffic patterns in the surrounding area at various times from Monday

through Friday. Delmarva Power is working with DuPont to manage the project and comply with safety in all areas where the two organizations are involved.

Traffic is congested in the area, due in part to the failure to rebuild the Tyler McConnell Bridge over the Brandywine, due to environmental and neighborhood issues. Everything possible will be done to protect the environment along the path in compliance with local, state and federal regulation, a Delmarva Power release stated. The project is expected to be completed by late 2016 at the Experimental Station, which is the home of dicoveries that include nylon and Kevlar.

DuPont to switch Experimental Station to natural gas

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An Ashland spin-off announced the opening its new headquarters in north Wilmington.

Solenis, a global producer of specialty chemicals for the pulp, paper, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, biorefining, power and municipal markets is now based in 39,000 square feet of space at Three Beaver Valley Road, off Route 202, near the Pennsyl-vania line.

The headquarters will be the home for about 120 employees working at the company that was previ-ously known as Ashland Water Technologies. Space is available for expansion.

.Following the opening of its European headquarters

last fall in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, the opening of the world headquarters is one more step in a series of actions that the company has taken since it was ac-quired by a fund managed by private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on August 1, 2014.

In addition to the office openings, Solenis recently acquired Clearwater Specialty Chemicals in North America as well as a paper chemical business from CBC in India.

“It has been an exceptionally busy time as we con-tinue to build this business inside and out,” stated John Panichella, CEO. “The new headquarters will further enhance the Solenis’ corporate identity and culture that we are working hard to develop around the world. As we continue to build and strengthen our organization, we will continue to rely on our proven leadership, industry expertise and market-fo-cused research and development to lead the industry in analyzing and solving water and process challenges and support our customers with innovative products and services, just as we have in the past.”

The company’s Wilmington Research Center will remain at its current location at 500 Hercules Road in Wilmington.

The company has 30 manufacturing facilities stra-tegically worldwide and employs a team of approxi-mately 3,500 in 118 countries across five continents. For additional information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com.

Ashland acquired Hercules, Incorporated in 2008. A number of Solenis’ businesses, such as paper chem-icals, were core holdings of Hercules, which was a spin-off of DuPont after the break-up of its explo-sives monopoly.

Ashland spin-off Solenis opens headquartersat Three Beaver Valley Road office building

DuPont acquires Taxon in bid to boost crop business

DuPont has agreed to acquire Taxon Biosciences, Inc. as the Wilmington-based company works to stay on the cutting edge

of agriculture.

Terms or annual revenues for Taxon were not disclosed.

DuPont is facing a proxy battle for four board seats with Trian that have major implications on its future course. CEO Ellen Kullman continues to make the case that DuPont is delivering results and investing in faster-growing business lines.

“In 2014, the businesses in DuPont’s Agriculture, Nutrition & Health and Industrial Biosciences segments sold more than $1 billion in biological solutions across four market sectors. Our in-house, cross-business venture, DuPont Biologicals, draws on our world-class science and deep understanding of food and production agriculture markets to deliver value-added crop biological solutions,” said Executive Vice President James Borel. “Taxon has built a leading technology platform for the discovery of microbial based products that will further strengthen our capabilities in biologicals.”

Based in Tiburon, Calif., near San Francisco, Taxon was founded in 2000, by microbial geneticists

Matt Ashby and Jasper Rine, with the objective of developing a microbial genomics platform to solve critical challenges in agriculture, energy and health sciences.

The company has intellectual property estate in the field of microbial consortia and microbial genomics products which will contribute to the development of new DuPont seed treatment, foliar and soil application products for important row crops, fruits and vegetables.

“The acquisition of Taxon will complement and enhance our in-house microbial discovery programs,” said Frank DeGennaro, director of DuPont Biologicals. “With this added capability, we expect to accelerate our time from discovery to market and we are field testing biological discovery leads identified by Taxon this year.”

“DuPont has a legacy of innovation, and we are excited to join the company in transforming the future of global agriculture through crop biologicals,” said Glenn Nedwin, CEO of Taxon Biosciences, Inc. “Our unique technology platform coupled with DuPont’s robust research capabilities and positioning across several markets makes the integration of Taxon into DuPont a natural fit and will support DuPont’s ability to bring new products to the market, faster.”

Crop biologicals include microbes, plant extracts, and other natural substances used to control pests and improve plant health, quality and yield.

As part of an integrated management approach to control pests, biologicals can provide more choice and flexibility for growers, and complement solutions for growers available from DuPont Crop Protection and DuPont Pioneer.

For more information, log on to www.taxon.com.

dining

Plant-based restaurant chain coming to Route 202 & NewarkA small restaurant chain, inspired by the healthy food move-

ment, is expanding to northern Delaware this year.

HoneyGrow will open restaurants on Main Street in Newark and Concord Pike in north Wilmington. The company is now looking for managers for its Delaware locations.

The Main Street site is at the former Delaware Book Exchange, while the Concord Pike location is at the Concord Gallery shop-ping center near the Brandywine Town Center complex.

Hibachi, a Japanese steak place, closed its doors at that shopping center not too long ago.

The menu features stir fry, salads, juices and related fare and claims it does not have a freezer on the premises.

The company’s website projects a summer opening for a location at 58 E. Main Street in Newark and fall for the location at 5609 Concord Pike.

According to the website, HoneyGrow was founded by Justin Rosenberg in Philadelphia in 2012.“As a newly converted proponent of a plant-based diet and tired of non-colorful lunch experiences, Justin decided to rid himself of the con-fines of his cubicle and pursue a life that spoke to his passion: creating awesome

things through nourishing foods,” the post noted. Honeygrow now has locations in Philadelphia, Bala Cynwyd, Radnor and Cherry Hill in the Delaware Valley.

Also slated to open this year are locations in Hoboken, NJ and the University of Pennsylvania area in west Philadelphia.

Cinco de Mayor - the backstory

For those of us who grew up in the Mountain West, it is still a little jarring to see the Mardi Gras atmosphere surrounding

Cinco de Mayo. In the past, the victory of Mexican forces in one battle over the French was a low-key celebration.

Like many of the victories in the American Revolution, the meaning was sym-bolic as the French ended up occupying Mexican City for a few years after Mexi-can forces were defeated.

Problems in Europe, guerrilla warfare and the prospect of the US not wanting a European power in its backyard after Civil War led the French to turn tail.

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food establishments, both family owned and chains.

It is also a reminder to check out those estab-lishments that are seri-ous about their offerings.

In the past several years, a number of din-ing spots have opened that reflect the diversity of food from our southern neighbor. Sadly, reviews of this cuisine are relatively few and the casualty rate of restaurants is relatively high.

There are too many spots that offer overly bland food in reaction to the mistaken belief by many din-ers that authentic food is overly hot.

Iron Hill brings back Burger month

Beginning on Friday, May 1, all 11 Iron Hill Brew-ery & Restaurant locations will celebrate National Burger Month with 31 Daily Burgers.

Every patron will receive a Burger Month Punch

Card, and for every five burgers, you’ll receive a $15 reward to use on their next visit to Iron Hill.

“At Iron Hill, we love pairing food with our beers, but the ultimate pairing will always be a beer and a burger – which is why we look forward to celebrating National Burger Month each year,” says Director of Brewing Operations Mark Edelson. “We have a lot of fun trying to top the previous year’s selections, and this year is no exception, with old favorites joining brand-new-for-2015 burgers on our calendar.”

Founded in 1996 by home brewers Kevin Finn and Edelson and restaurateur Kevin Davies, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant has grown from one restaurant and brewery to 11 locations. Iron Hill brews its own beer at each location and menu items can cary a bit between restaurants.

In 2014, Zagat named Iron Hil the most popular

restaurant in Philadelphia. Iron Hill has grown over the years from that one location.

Iron Hill has been adding a location every year or two. Of late, no announcement has been made on future locations. Click here for a list of the 31 differ-ent burgers. - Doug Rainey

Cinco de Mayor and Burger MonthFrom previous page

The flight to quality is continuing in both the office leasing and sales market in northern Delaware. North Wilmington

(Route 202) is showing the greatest momentum with encouraging signs coming in the city of Wilmington.

“ Route 202 is on fire,” says Rick Kingery, vice president at Colliers in Wilmington. Kingery and other brokers noted the vacancy rate has dropped along the corridor, which had been hit by corporate downsizings at AstraZeneca and elsewhere.

Class B owners face choices

The Collers report for the first quarter noted the continued move toward higher end office space by tenants in New Castle County. That is leaving land-lords of some Class B buildings with the option of upgrading or even demolishing buildings.

The big news of late has come in the north Wilm-ington (Concord Pike) area.

In the past year, the AstraZeneca sold its South Campus to JPMorgan Chase and the once vacant Rollins Building, now the Applied Bank Center, is at or near full occupancy with continuing reports that Wells Fargo is taking remaining space. AstraZeneca earlier sold the building to Buccini/Pollin Group, which in turn sold it to local banker and real estate investor Rocco Abessinio.

“Overall, it seems as if the New Castle County of-fice market has finally recovered from the recession. Tenants are not only active in the market, but they have an actual intent to relocate,” said Neal Dang-ello, senior managing director at Newmark, Grubb, Knight, Frank. “Moreover, there has been growth in some existing companies (SevOne and Nemours) and new businesses (Kelmar Associates) have set up camp here in northern New Castle County.

The 202 corridor has also been the site of office real estate sales, with 3 Beaver Valley Road and more recently the Delaware Corporate Center sold at prices that reflect a surging market. (See story, this section).

Abessinio’s purchase of the Rollins high rise for a reported $10.5 million is beginning to look like a bargain as the building nears full occupancy.

Dave Morrison of NAI Emory Hill, New Castle,

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STAR campus seesmore leasing activity

says the overall office leasing market could be more vibrant.

“It’s old news, but Delaware lost a lot of jobs,” Morrison says.

More people in less space

Other factors include employers squeezing more workers in less space and technology that allows less space to be used. One example is laptop computers that are replacing large desktop systems and workers working from their homes a day or two a week.

One side effect of more employees being put into less space is a strain on surface parking at suburban office complexes. More parking ramps are likely, Mor-rison says.

Morrison agrees that north Wilmington is the stron-gest market. He also notes that Buccini/Pollin Group has plans for the sprawling Concord Plaza office park in north Wilmington that include retail and apart-ments as well as office space that is likely to be up-graded.

Another success story, according to the first quarter Newmark Grubb Knight Frank report from Research Director Joe Gilbert is the STAR Campus of the Uni-versity of Delaware.

Compiled by Joseph Gilbert, NGKF

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development digest

The STAR Campus saw strong activity after worries a year ago that the former Chrysler Administration Building was struggling to gain traction in the mar-ket.

Glasgow Medical Center and Newark’s Indepen-dence Prosthetics-Orthotics Inc. moved into the 69,321-square-foot office have building.

SevOne comes to STAR Campus

Technology company SevOne is slated to occupy 50,000 square feet this summer and Delaware Tech-nology Park Laboratory Incubator could occupy up to 10,000 square feet in coming months, virtually filling up the building.

Leasing is said to be running ahead of schedule at the site being developed by Delle Donne and Associ-ates and built by Bancroft Construction Co.

Downtown Wilmington is also showing promise, according to Kingery of Colliers. One positive sign came with a reduction of Class B office space, due in

part to the demolition of the Jefferson Plaza building in downtown.

“I couldn’t be more optimistic,” Kingery says of downtown. He adds that the pieces are being as-sembled for a more vibrant downtown as Buccini/Pollin adds apartments that will bring in more young people who want access to transportation options that include the train station.

The legal market, which drove growth in downtown leasing for a time, has slowed down somewhat, bro-kers say. Fewer law practices are being spun off from existing firms.

Law firms are also changing their office configura-tions and eliminating law libraries, leaving more room without more square footage.

Bankruptcy law concerns

Another concern is legislation on the location

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of bankruptcies cases that could lead to fewer firms choosing Delaware. While crime remains a big story in the city, brokers say safety is not a huge concern with employers and landlords. Amenities, such as caf-eterias and secure parking, ease those fears. Also crime remains relatively low in downtown.

As for the remainder of the year, the report from

Newmark, Grubb, Knight Frank is modestly upbeat.

“Demand is expected to remain relatively stable for

the balance of 2015,” according to the firm. “As has always been the case in this market, a few larger leases may sign this year that could grow occupancy signifi-cantly in the near term. But, these leases are far from certain and a large vacancy swing may not be in this market’s future for 2015.”

The Colliers report stated that the” suburban mar-ket is primed to have a strong 2015 as an influx of new debt sparks an increase in renovations. Price wars for non-trophy office space in downtown Wilmington will continue as landlords fiercely compete on rents”

Jack Lingo Asset Management, Rehoboth Baech, announced that it has completed two office lease transactions at the newly constructed Lingo Professional Center in Rehoboth Beach.

No square footage figures were listed.

Lingo signed two new long-term office leases with Fresenius Medical Care and WSFS Bank. JLAM was represented by Jack Lingo, Inc Realtor in both transactions, while Fresenius was represented by Gregg D’Ascanio and Mike Milone of Blackmore Realty Group.

Bill Lingo, principal at Jack Lingo Asset Management said “We welcome Fresenius Medical Care and WSFS Bank to the Lingo Professional Center. They are both premier tenants that this best-

in-class office building is intended to attract.” Lingo developed and built the three-story, Class A, multi-tenant office building in 2014-2015.

The building features a glass entrance and lobby, well appointed common areas, and visibility along Coastal Highway.

The third floor of the Lingo Professional Center is still available for users seeking office space.

Jack Lingo Asset Management is a commercial and residential development firm based in coastal Delaware.

Lingo Asset Management announces WSFS, Fresenius leases

Stable market forecast for 2015From previous page

Harvey Hanna & Associates is now marketing one of the state’s largest distribution center sites.

Recently, the company hosted a breakfast walking tour of the Twin Spans Business Park. On hand were business and political leaders eager to see “blue collar jobs” that comes with distribution operations.

Harvey Hanna, which is based in Newport, hopes is to replace long time tenant, Five Below, with one to four new tenants at the New Castle site.

The fast-growing retailer of items with a price of tag of $5 or less is currently leasing 421,291 square feet of warehouse space at the business park and will be moving its distribution center to a larger site across the river in New Jersey this summer.

Five Below’s current space in Delaware allows for processing 50,000 boxes a day, with 59 loading docks for truck trailers. Five Below is based in Philadelphia and now has stores in an area extending from Texas

to Massachusetts. The Twin Spans Business Park has been a distribution center for Five Below since June of 2007. The company doubled its space in 2010.

Five Below employs 175 at the site, according to an earlier Delaware Business Bulletin story.

Twin Spans Business Park has a roster of well known companies (Tire Rack, Zenith Products, Speakman Company) mixed with regional entities.

It is located in New Castle, near I-95, I-295, I-495, Routes 9 & 13 and two miles south of the Delaware

Memorial Bridge. The 421,291 square feet of moffice and warehouse space will be available this fall and can rented in its entirety or can be sub-divided to accommodate up to four different leasees.

Harvey Hanna & Associates is a full-service Commercial Real Estate Development Company, featuring three million square feet of industrial and commercial real estate in the mid-Atlantic region.

Company President, E. Thomas Harvey said the company makes a great effort to get to know the needs of tenants and to customize space to meet those needs

Harvey and his business partner, Thomas J. Hanna launched the firm to take advantage of sites close to major population centers and Interstate 95.

Delaware is the home to large distribution centers for Amazon in Middletown and Wal Mart in Smyrna.

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Brandywine Realty Trust has sold two Delaware office complexes.

Philly.com reported Brandywine sold Delaware Corporate Center on Concord Pike and Christiana Office Park, a multi-building complex south of Newark for a reported $51 million.

Buyer was Buccini/Pollin Group of Wilmington Buccini/Pollin has been in a buying mode in the area

north of Wilmington, snapping up the Bellevue Park Corporate Center last year for a reported $60 million.

The Delaware Corporate Center is believed to be nearly fully occupied. However, the Commerce Drive site is less than 70 percent occupied after Computer Sciences Corp. vacated space.

The center houses AAA Mid Atlantic and other

tenants. Earlier this month, it was announced that 3 Beaver Valley Road, near the northern end of Concord Pike was sold to an investor for $62 million.

That building houses Farmer Insurance and more recently the world headquarters of a Solenis, the former Ashland-Hercules water chemicals business. (See story on Solenis in this issue)

However, there is a lack of large sites along I-95 in Delaware. As a result, companies like IKEA, Rite Aid, Restoration Hardware, Kohls and now Five Below are opting for distribution locations in adjacent states. Adjacent states and counties also offer financial incentives.

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Space can be divided

Buccini/Pollin buys Brandywine office properties

Commerce Drive buildings south of Newark

Three Delaware brokers, firm win awards

Three NAI Emory Hill commercial real estate agents received awards recently in the “Best Of 2014” Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal Awards in the mid-sized real estate firm category.

Neil Kilian, CCIM, SIOR, was awarded Largest Office Lease for his lease of Pencader VII in Newark. Kilian represented the landlord in the lease of 79,184 s/f of office space at 110 Lake Dr. to Siemens.

Dave Morrison, CCIM, was awarded Third Largest Office Sale for the sale of a 10,000 s/f office building at 616 N. Glenwood Avenue in Smyrna to Smyrna Corporate Kids, LLC for use as a day care center.

Jon Hickey was awarded Third Largest Industrial Sale for the sale of Clifford Brown Walk, an 83,000

s/f, four-story warehouse building and two acres of adjacent land along the Brandywine River in downtown Wilmington. The building is going to be repurposed into an 80-unit residential development to be called The Lofts at Clifford Brown Walk.

Kilian, Morrison and Hickey were also recognized among the Top 20 brokers in leases and sales in the Mid-Atlantic region.

In addition, NAI Emory Hill was recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work” in the “Giving Back” category for placing a high priority on giving back to the community. The firm and its employees are involved in many charitable and community events representing a variety of local and regional non-profit, school and religious organizations. Organizations include: Goodwill of Delaware & Delaware County, Easter Seals, March of Dimes of DE, the American Diabetes Association of Delaware ,the American Cancer Society, the Mary Campbell Center Special Olympics and others.

Wohlsen names SVP

Wohlsen Construction Company announced that Kenneth D. Noreen has been promoted to Senior Vice President. In this role Ken will oversee the senior living market sector for Wohlsen, provide support and expertise to Wohlsen’s regional offices to assure senior living client needs are being met, and to lead expansion strategies into new markets.

Prior to joining Wohlsen in 2013, he spent 26 years in the senior living industry as a provider, developer and consultant. During his career, he has provided development and operational leadership to numerous retirement community start-ups, as well as major repositioning projects, representing over $700 million in construction.

Founded in 1890, Wohlsen Construction provides construction management, general contracting and design/build services. The company maintains full service offices in Lancaster, Harrisburg and Media, PA, Wilmington, Baltimore, and Parsippany, N.J

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Wealth manager Atlantic Trust opens office in WilmingtonAtlantic Trust, the U.S. private wealth

management division of Toronto-based CIBC, announced that it has received a

Delaware limited purpose trust charter.

The office enables the firm to offer trust services beyond that already provided by its national trust company. CIBC is a large Canadian bank and financial services company.

“As a leading advisor to families of wealth, Atlantic Trust is pleased to offer this important and valuable new trust service that can help our clients protect and maximize their wealth,” said Jack Markwalter, CEO of Atlantic Trust. “We’re so pleased to introduce this service and to announce that it’s being led by two senior and experienced professionals already in our firm, people who know our clients very well and their expectations on quality and service.”

Leading the Delaware trust team are Dee Ann Schedler, managing director and head of Atlantic Trust’s Wilmington office, and Gabrielle Bailey,

wealth strategist and director of Delaware Trust Services.

“Although our status as a nationally chartered trust might have been sufficient, we decided that the more prudent way to go was to also obtain a Delaware trust charter,” said Markwalter. “Other states have attractive trust laws, but Delaware has always been considered a preferred jurisdiction for trust and

estate attorneys because of its trust law flexibility and significant body of case law and excellent Chancery Court.”

Schedler has 28 years of industry experience and joined the firm in 2004. Bailey has more than 15 years of industry experience and joined Atlantic Trust in 2003. Reema Antonelli also recently joined the Wilmington team as a senior client service manager.

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Massachusetts-based Lightower Fiber Networks and Fibertech Networks will merge in a $1.9 billion deal.

Fibertech, which serves mid-sized areas in the East Coast and Central states, has a growing presence in Delaware. The company has a data hub “hotel’ in Wilm-ington and extended its network downstate to include Dover and Georgetown. Click here for previous stories.

The agreement is an all-cash transaction valued at $1.9 billion, which will be funded through a combination of equity and debt. Lightower’s existing financial backers, Berkshire Partners, Pamlico Capital and ABRY Partners, will each pro-vide additional equity to support the transaction. The combined company will be led by current Lightower CEO, Rob Shanahan.

The merger is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.

“The combination of Lightower and Fibertech is a win for customers by en-abling us to serve more locations, across a wider area, and with more service op-tions – all with the same superior level of reliability and customer support,” stated Rob Shanahan, CEO of Lightower. “Lightower and Fibertech have built dis-tinct networks in their respective regions that will be very complementary when

merged. In addition, we plan to continue to invest capital in these regions for ad-ditional network expansion.”

The combined company will own and operate a, fiber-based network through-out the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. The company will offer customers more than 30,000 route miles of fiber network providing access to nearly 5,000

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wireless towers and almost 13,000 locations, includ-ing commercial buildings, data centers, financial exchanges, content hubs and other communications facilities.

“This merger between our two high growth com-panies is a very positive development for both or-ganizations, both customer bases and both sets of employees,” said John Purcell, CEO of Fibertech. “Bringing together these two talented teams under an integrated leadership group will be a great cul-tural fit, while also broadening opportunities and career growth for employees.” Fibertech is based in Rochester, NY.

Lightower and Fibertech both currently offer fiber-based e portfolios comprised of Ethernet, dark fiber, wavelengths, Internet access, private networks and co-location services.

Both companies also offer industry-specific solu-tions for financial services, health care, government, education, media, content providers, wireless and wireline carriers, and also cloud and data center connectivity.

Additional terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Current Lightower Fiber Networks investors in-clude Berkshire Partners, Pamlico Capital, and ABRY Partners. Current Fibertech Networks inves-tors include Court Square Capital Partners.

Financing has been provided by J.P. Morgan and Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC. Ropes & Gray, LLP is providing legal counsel to Berkshire Partners and Lightower.

Court Square is being advised by Evercore Part-ners, Inc. and TD Securities in the transaction, with Dechert LLP providing legal counsel.

Last month, Lightower also announced its acquisi-tion of ColocationZone – an enterprise-class data center provider in Chicago.

The market in this region is increasingly competi-tive with cable and programming giant Comcast, focusing on business customers.

The issue of Internet access for consumers and small businesses seemed to be at the heart of oppo-sition to the merger of Comcast and Time-Warner cable. The companies walked away from the deal last week.

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iBio, Inc. has engaged Texas-based Caliber Biotherapeutics LLC to produce materials for clinical development of the first of iBio’s proprietary anti-fibrosis products.

iBio is based in Newark and develops plant-based technologies for proteins that could be used in vaccines and other drugs. Fibrosis refers to conditions where heart and other muscles turn into fiber.

Privately held Caliber’s production will be used for toxicology studies and initial human clinical trials of IBIO-CFB03. Caliber operates the largest plant-based protein production site.

iBio is the exclusive worldwide licensee of the patents developed by Dr. Carol Feghali-Bostwick for therapies against fibrotic diseases.

Feghali-Bostwick, is collaborating with iBio for the development of various applications of her invention to address systemic sclerosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and scleroderma. She is the Kitty Trask Holt Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

iBio says Texas companyto produce fibrosis drugfor early-stage trials

News Journal owner Gannett wants the world, or perhaps its workforce, to know it is an awesome me-dia company.

Taking center stage for the lip sync rock band was Gannett CEO Gracia Martore, joined by top execu-tives.

Martore pulled down more than $12 million while presiding over a painful restructuring process that required editorial staff to reapply for their jobs.

Those not rehired were often replaced with less experienced staff. The News Journal underwent the process, which is now being undertaken at the Daily Times and its weeklies on Delmarva.

One reason for the video was the separation of Gannett’s growing digital properties (Cars.com) and TV stations and the troubled legacy newspaper and website business. The digital business will be known as Tegna.

Gannett wanted to send out the message that is

more than a collection of TV stations, newspapers and related websites.

The video was probably part of a team-building exercise as it is loaded with cringe-worthy features including a misspelling of the word commission and one exec advising to “turn that frown upside down,” which some might interpret as a reference to morale problems at various properties.

Click on the photo above to access the video. The video may not be available should Gannett decide it does not want it online.

The existence of the video was first revealed by media observer Jim Romenesko, perhaps with the help of a Gannett employee who found the video on GoogleDocs.

We’re News Journal insiders

Speaking of awesome, we received an invitation a while back to become part of the inner circle, so to speak from Editor Susan Leath.

It’s known as The Insider, part of a strategy by the N-J and other newspapers to better connect with sub-scribers.

Earlier in the spring, a couple of government re-porters held a coffee get-together in downtown Wilm-ington.

Included are deals that include a lunch for a selected number of subscribers at the News Journal offices on Basin Road, New Castle later this week and discount tickets to a Phillies game. - Doug Rainey

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‘Awesome video’ emerges from Gannett corporate event

International Shareholders Services endorsed two of Trian Fund Management’s selections for the DuPont Co. board. The actions of the service

are closely watched in corporate battles. DuPont shares rose on the news.

Trian’s head Nelson Peltz is seeking a seat on the board as well as three others. His nomination was flatly rejected by DuPont.

DuPont issued the following statement that claimed ISS was not correct in its assessment:

We strongly believe ISS reached the wrong conclusion in failing to recommend that shareholders vote on the white proxy card FOR all 12 of DuPont’s highly-qualified and experienced director nominees by ignoring the success of our transformative strategy and the value-destructive nature of Trian’s break up agenda, as well as dismissing the fact that the addition of Trian’s nominees would remove critical experience from DuPont’s Board. This demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of our business and the needs of a global science company.

We are confident that shareholders will do their own analysis and believe they recognize that DuPont has the right strategy and right Board to continue overseeing the successful transformation of DuPont. DuPont’s shareholder returns during the last 1-year, 3-year and

5-year periods were 17%, 78% and 160%, all in excess of our proxy peers and the S&P 500.

And during current management’s tenure, DuPont has delivered total shareholder returns of 266% compared to 159% from the S&P 500 and 133% from our proxy peers.[i] We also have delivered a 740 basis point expansion in segment-adjusted operating margins,[ii] while returning approximately $14 billion of capital to our shareholders since 2009. The actions the Board has taken to transform DuPont are producing results, clearly visible in the 19% adjusted operating EPS compounded annual growth rate of our ongoing, post-spin business – which translates into 188% growth in adjusted operating EPS.[iii]

Importantly, DuPont’s Board has the right mix of experience and skills required to lead a global science and technology company of DuPont’s scale. Each director is extremely qualified and brings unique experiences that are highly beneficial to DuPont. Unseating directors who bring important skills such as corporate governance experience, science and technology acumen, regulatory and government relations knowledge, emerging market growth experience, global manufacturing and supply chain knowledge and environmental management

experience, would deprive DuPont’s Board of critical skills that are central to DuPont’s purpose and value proposition. Furthermore, Trian has a well-known practice of establishing a ‘shadow management’ team, which would be committed to advancing this agenda, derailing DuPont’s progress on our strategic transformation plan.

We urge shareholders to protect the value of your investment and to prevent Trian from pursuing its value-destructive agenda. Please vote FOR all 12 of DuPont’s highly qualified directors on the WHITE proxy.

At one point, DuPont said one member of the Trian slate was qualified to serve on its board.

Some investors in DuPont have been seeking a peaceful resolution of the battle before the company’s annual meeting in mid-May and there have been suggestions that a compromise might involve two members from the Peltz slate.

Some institutional investors have expressed support for the Peltz slate, with others siding for DuPont.

Peltz has continued to claim that the company should sell off other businesses and reduce overhead and non-core functions such as the operation of a hotel and country club in the Wilmington area.

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Delmarva Poultry Industry honors growers, supportersGrowers and supporters of Delmarva

Peninsula’s chicken community were honored earlier this month at the annual

banquet of Delmarva Poultry, an 1,800-member organization.

During its 59th banquet, DPI recognized outstand-ing chicken growers and three individuals for their work on behalf of the chicken industry.

The J. Frank Gordy, Sr. Delmarva Distinguished Citizen Award, DPI’s highest honor, was presented to Jenny Rhodes of Queen Anne’s County, MD. Rhodes, a chicken grower and University of Maryland Extension Educator, has been a leader in the chicken industry and agricultural community for many years.

The Edward H. Ralph DPI Medal of Achievement was presented to Jeff Smith, who lives near Ocean City. Smith, director of Environmental Services for Perdue Incorporated and previously with Mountaire Farms, led DPI’s efforts during the past dozen years on the many environmental issues facing the chicken

industry. He was recognized for his leadership in the many environmental issues and challenges that faced the chicken industry.

The DPI Medal of Achievement for an elected of-ficial went to Maryland State Senator Jim Mathias. Mathias was recognized for his support for the chick-en industry and the farming community.

DPI recognized 12 outstanding poultry producers. Selected by their companies from Delmarva’s more than 1,600 poultry growers, this year’s recipients are:

- Bruce and Erin Bartz, Tuckahoe Farm, Denton, MD - Amick Farms

- Connie Carmean, Laurel, DE - Mountaire Farms

-Mohammad Iqbal, Cottonwood Ranch, Bloxom, VA - Perdue Foods

Carol Johnson, Loockerman Farm, Bridgeville, DE - Allen Harim

James and Christina Kurtz, Christina Kurtz Farm, Snow Hill, MD - Tyson Foods

Robert and Lise Masten, Mispillion Farm, Milford,

DEe - Allen Harim The Murphy Family, Bellview Farm, Rhodesdale,

MD - Mountaire Farms Deosarran and Rohinee Singh, Hi-Way Farm, Lau-

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Roland and Janice Todd, Roland, Roasters Farm, Federalsburg, MD - Per-due Foods

Ronald and Ellen Vanculin, White

Stone Farm, Galena, MD - Perdue Foods

Billy and Vivian West, West Acres, Tyaskin, MD - Mountaire Farms

Scot and Tammy Wharton, S & T Farm, Millsboro, DE - Perdue Food

Nearly 700 people attended the DPI banquet.

Small Business Chamber honors 19 businesses

The Delaware Small Business Cham-ber (DSBC) recognized 19 Delaware small businesses at its Blue Ribbon Awards Ceremony earlier this month.

The winning organizations were se-lected via a public voting process.

More than 8,000 votes were tabulated and the results were as follows:Emerging Business of the Year

Painting with a Twist--Newark (Voter’s Choice)Delaware 87ers (Merit Award)

Non-profit Award of the YearGoodwill of Delaware & Delaware County (Voter’s Choice)In Her Shoes (Merit Award)

Franchise of the YearPainting with a Twist--Newark (Voter’s Choice)Kona Ice of Elkton/North Newark (Merit Award)

Best Trade CompanyHorizon Electric (Voter’s Choice)New Life Floors (Merit Award)

Best Restaurant of the YearAqua Sol (Voter’s Choice)Blue Crab Grill (Merit Award)

Customer Service of the YearEd Oliver’s Golf Club (Voter’s Choice)Get Life Coaching (Merit Award)

Community Involvement of the YearDelaware 87ers (Voter’s Choice)WSFS Bank (Merit Award)

Home-Based Business of the YearBlue Hen Bed & Breakfast (Voter’s Choice)New Life Floors (Merit Award)

Best RetailKirk’s Flowers (Voter’s Choice)Fusion’s Taster Choice (Merit Award)

Best MarketingMiddletown Area Chamber of Com-

merce (Voter’s Choice)Perfect Wedding Guide (Merit Award)

Best WebsiteNorthDelaware Happenings (Voter’s Choice)Juggling Hoffmans (Merit Award)

Best 55 and OverPerfect Wedding Guide (Voter’s Choice)AFP Insurance (Merit Award)

Best Woman-OwnedThirty-One Gifts -- Lisa Ayers (Voter’s Choice)Geneva Fonda Photography (Merit Award)

Best Man-OwnedGet Life Coaching (Voter’s Choice)Image Wine Cellars (Merit Award)

Best Young ProfessionalDom’s Pizzeria (Voter’s Choice)Smooth Fusions Films (Merit Award)

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Best Veteran-OwnedHandyman Matters (Voter’s Choice)The Kyle Group (Merit Award)

Most Memorable MemberLois Hoffman (Voter’s Choice)Neil Stalter (Merit Award)

Operational Support Person of the YearZachary Agney, ZZ House Design and Print (Voter’s Choice)Taj Jones, Cartridge World (Merit Award)Administrative Support Person of the YearSamantha Kane, Creative Travel (Voter’s Choice)Arline Docherty, Goodwill Industries of Delaware & Delaware County (Merit Award)

“The Blue Ribbon Awards gives DSBC a chance to applaud and promote the vital network of small busi-nesses in Delaware,” said Bob Older, DSBC founder and president. “These winners exemplify the hard work and dedication it takes to operate a small busi-ness successfully. Also reflected is the impact they have on the audiences they serve, who show their ap-preciation by voting.”

Stroud Water Research Center dedicates wing in honor of Dansko founders

Stroud Water Research Center recently dedicated the Cabot-Kjellerup Public Outreach Wing of its Moorhead Environmental Education Complex in honor of Dansko co-founders Mandy Cabot and Pe-ter Kjellerup, who have been long-term supporters of the Center.

“When you look around at the names on the differ-ent spaces of this building, it’s like a who’s who in the history of Stroud Water Research Center,” said Ber-nard W. Sweeney, Ph.D., executive director of Stroud Center. “Our spaces are named for people who have a deep and personal connection to our work and mis-sion. That’s why I’m really happy to see Peter and Mandy’s names on our public outreach wing because without their support, we wouldn’t be standing in this beautiful building today.”

He said Kjellerup suggested building the outreach and education complex after learning that the re-search wing had become too cramped, particularly after Stroud Center expanded its mission to include education and watershed restoration.

Kjellerup also made the first donation to kick start the building’s fundraising drive. He also insisted, along with Sweeney, that - in keeping with Stroud Center’s mission - that the building would have to be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certified. Dansko’s nearby headquarters, in West Grove, PA is LEED Gold Certified.

He encouraged Stroud Center’s board of direc-tors and executive staff to settle for nothing less than LEED Platinum certification—the highest, most dif-ficult level to achieve.

Dansko is an employee-owned footwear company and a founding member of B Corporation. The B stands for benefit.

Member companies meet rigorous standards for social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

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Three achievers were honored for their lifetime accomplishments with the 36th Annual Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service. The awards, presented last week, recognize individuals who have enriched modern culture through their professional and personal endeavors. The 2015 Common Wealth Award recipients are:

• Jon Bon Jovi, lead singer of Grammy Award-winning rock band and humanitarian, for Public Service;

• Edward Norton, award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer and philanthropist, for Public Service;

• Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, for Mass Communications.

The honorees were recognized at the Common Wealth Awards ceremony hosted by The PNC Financial Services Group at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington..

Shown from left are PNC Regional President

Nicholas Marsini, Bon Jovi, Norton and Wales.

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kudos (business honors)County Chamber namesannual award winners The New Castle County Chamber

of Commerce has announced its annual award winners. These individuals will be honored at the chamber’s Annual Awards Luncheon on May 14 at the Waterfall Catering and Special Events center on Philadelphia Pike near Wilmington. Click here to register. The winners are:

Entrepreneur of the Year AwardTodd Bavol - Integrity Staffing, Newark. 

Entrepreneurial Advocate of the Year AwardPosthumously Awarded to David Freschman

Wallace Johnson Community Service AwardPaul and Linda McConnellMcConnell Companies   

 Ambassadaor of the Year AwardWill Webber, Newark, Keller Williams Realty. 

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Calvert Comfort is now One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning. The company joined a national heating and air conditioning company with

independently owned and operated locations throughout North America.

One Hour ranked #1 in the HVAC services category in Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500..

The former Calvert was founded by Delaware native Chris Lenhard, a master service technician who founded the company in 1991 in the garage of his home.

“I am always looking toward the future and how to best serve our customers and employees. By joining a national company, we can offer new products and services and our employees can benefit from the training and systems. One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning has a strong national reputation for offering on-time service, a 100% satisfaction guarantee and employees who are background checked and drug tested. This is a great fit for us because it’s everything we stand for and offer,” said Lenhard, who is general manager and technical trainer. Partner, David Murray will remain as sales and system design manager.

The new company will continue to operate from the current Calvert location. The company has about 40 employees. Lenhard and his partners are also affiliated with Benjamin Franklin Plumbing® serving the greater

Wilmington area and Lincoln Oil, a residential heating oil delivery company.

“We are pleased to welcome Chris, David and the entire team to the One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning family. The caliber of this company is impressive and we look forward to working with them in this next chapter for their business,” said Mark Baker, president of franchise.     

Lenhard said he will keep his commitment to community service as the major corporate sponsor for the Newark National Little League and the annual coat drive to benefit the Ministry of Caring in Wilmington.

One Hour had operated locally for several years in Newark under the ownership of the Boulden family. In 2013, their company was re-branded as Boulden Brothers.

Calvert Comfort now One Hour Heating Evans Farms joins2015 CommunityAgriculture ProgramEvans Farms, a third generation

family farm near Bridgeville, is adding new share options for its 2015 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, including two traditional share box options and two CSA Club Card options.

CSA aims to put locally sourced foods on more tables in Delaware.

 Throughout the 18-week

farming season that runs from early June through October, Evans Farms allows members of the program the opportunity to test their culinary skills with a variety of local produce and meat that comes fresh-harvested, pre-packed and ready to go in the traditional CSA share box. To participate in the Evans Farms CSA program, visit EvansFarmsProduce.com or call 302-245-5525.

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Morris promoted at TechSolu-tions

TechSolutions, Inc., a northern Delaware provider of technology support to area businesses, has pro-moted office administrator Mary Morris into the position of Service Manager.

Her primary responsibilities will include ensuring client satisfaction, workflow coordination, and techni-cian management and development.

Morris previously worked for Avon Products in their IT department. Initially hired by Avon as a PC support technician, she ultimately became responsible for email and network administration.

In addition to her prior experience in IT, Morris has worked as a sales administrator, rental manager and office manager. She also spent six years in the Army National Guard, achieving the rank of Ser-geant.

Levin to head HR at SoDel Con-cepts

Dan Levin has been promoted to director of human resources for SoDel Concepts, which has eight coastal restaurants, Plate Catering and Big Thunder Roadside Kitch-en, a food truck.

Levin, who grew up in Wilming-ton, attended the Art Institute of Philadelphia where he studied the culinary arts. He received his certifica-tion in human resources from George Mason Univer-sity. As director of human resources, he’s responsible for the 500 plus employees and staff.

Ashland’s Fernandez-Moreno gains additional duties

Ashland Inc. announced that Luis Fernandez-Moreno, senior vice president of Ashland and presi-dent of Ashland Specialty Ingredients, has been pro-moted to the newly created position of senior vice president of Ashland and president of the Chemicals Group.

Fernandez-Moreno has been working out of Ash-land’s Wilmington office.

In this expanded role, he will continue to lead Spe-cialty Ingredients and will assume additional manage-ment responsibility for Ashland Performance Materi-als. Specialty Ingredients and Performance Materials will continue to operate, and report their financial results, as separate commercial units. The leadership change does not reflect any shift in the company’s strategy or approach to portfolio management and capital allocation, a release stated.

Tyre named M&T VP

M&T Bank announced the pro-motion of Debora L. Tyre to an Administrative Vice President for Banking Services Operations in M&T’s Millsboro facility.

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DuPont Tralee plant manager named

DuPont has appointed Joe Guer-rieri as plant manager at its Per-formance Polymers operations at Tralee Park, Newark.

In this leadership role, he will oversee production of DuPont™ Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer parts, and management of more than 185 DuPont Tralee Park employees.

Guerrieri is a DuPont veteran with over 24 years of manufacturing and supply chain leadership experi-ence. Prior to joining Tralee Park, he served as Du-Pont™ Corian® unit manager at DuPont Yerkes, the North American manufacturing home of Corian® solid surfaces based in Buffalo/Tonawanda, N.Y.

He is a native of Ohio and holds a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.

Two joins Bernardon Haber Hollowqy

Bernardon Haber Holloway Ar-chitects announced two new addi-tions to the team at the firm.

 Meridyth Karr, AIA, LEED AP

of Coatesville, PA is a Registered Architect who graduated from Penn State University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Architecture, and minors in both Architectural History and Italian. Previously, Karr worked for Watkins Archi-tect, Ltd. in Fleetwood, PA.

  As a LEED AP with specialties

in Building Design + Construc-tion, Homes, and Operations + Maintenance, Karr formerly acted as the chair of the Berks Lancaster Branch of the USGBC Central PA Chapter.

Additional volunteer work includes serving as an event coordinator for Maysie’s FarmFest 2011, 2012 and 2013, as a member of the Board of Directors for

the Yocum Institute for Arts Education, and as a par-ticipant in that organization’s annual ‘Dancing with the Reading Stars’ from 2013-2015.  

 Angel VanBennekom of Newark, has joined the

firm as a Marketing Assistant. VanBennekom will be working directly with the firm’s Marketing Coordina-tor and Business Development Director to support the marketing, public relations and social media goals of the firm.

 VanBennekom graduated Summa Cum Laude from

the University of Delaware in 2014.

She holds an Honors B.A. with Distinction in Eng-lish, and she has provided web, video, and graphic design services throughout northern Delaware.

She previously worked as a Marketing Assistant for Info Solutions LLC in New Castle, DE.

She is also active in the regional theater community, having participated in productions with the Delaware Shakespeare Festival, the Wilmington Drama League, and UD’s Resident Ensemble Players, to name a few.

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Noel joins Convention & Visi-tors Bureau

Thalia Andre-Noel has joined the Greater Wilmington Conven-tion & Visitors Bureau as a Visitor Counselor.  Andre-Noel will also assist with managing GWCVB’s website calendar of events.

Andre-Noel currently owns and manages Mistress of Spice in Newark, a gourmet spice blends production and retail company.  She has also been very involved with the Parent Teacher Associa-tion at Albert Jones Elementary in Newark where she served as the PTA President. 

Andre-Noel attended the Fash-ion Institute of Technology in New York City and the Art Insti-tute of Fort Lauderdale.

McKenzie joins HomeServices Berkshire Hathaway Home-

Services Fox & Roach, Realtors Newark Office, welcomes Nicole McKenzie as a Sales Associate. McKenzie is a member of the New Castle County Board of Realtors.

Nine join Oean Atlantic Atlantic Sotheby’s

Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s Interna-tional Realty (OASIR) announced the recent addition of nine Realtors to their team in Coastal Delaware.

Pati Freeman’s background in-cludes extensive experience in both construction and real estate. In her early career, she worked as a new homes sales representative before becoming part owner of a small-scale construction company, gaining experience in new home construction, home remodeling and com-mercial renovations. She also spent years as an Office Manager for a large general contractor in the Wash-ington, DC Metro area.

Dale Rife is a 20+ year former financial services Marketing and Relationship Management execu-tive. Having worked with some of the nation’s largest corporate, gov-ernment, and not-for-profit enti-ties, Rife has the marketing, strate-gic business planning, and contract negotiation skills to ensure a home buying and selling experience of the highest professional caliber. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Delaware, and has served in multiple leadership posi-tions professionally and personally.  

His partner, Jack Kofoed, also an Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s Real-tor, specializes in preparing homes for sale through his in-house OA-SIR professional staging team.

Donna Connelly was a member of the New York

Police Department for 21 years, ultimately becoming a Government Liaison to the Sate Department and

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Secret Service. Through this expe-rience, she was recruited by one of the Top 10 Fortune 500 com-panies, to aid in the safety of their Board of Directors’ travels in the US and abroad for national and overseas business. She held this position for five years, leaving her with knowledge of a diverse range of personalities and places. She brings with her a Certification in Landscape Design from the Bronx Botanical Gardens in New York. She prides herself on her keen knowledge of the value of both landscape and hardscape, and the importance of not only a building structure, but also the surround-ings that complete a home.

Lucy Monigle joined Ocean Atlantic Sotheby’s in March. She is a graduate of Worcester Preparatory School in Berlin, MD, she continued her education at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Af-ter spending a year and a half at Kate Spade New York as a nationally ranked sales associate, Lucy joined i.g.

Burton Mercedes Benz as a sales consultant. Working within the automotive industry, she honed her communication, organizational, and negotiation skills.

Dolores Pack is a native of Ber-gen County, New Jersey. She was a marketing consultant in the town of Montvale, NJ. She has a real estate license in New Jersey

In her spare time, Dolores is in-volved with several local restaurants and committees, including UNI-CO, the Italian American Associa-tion, Peoples Place, Womenade and Believe in Tomorrow, and has done fundraising for the American Can-cer Society.

Norman Bennett had a 33-year government career landed him in Washington, DC in 1991. Norman’s career as a Senior Executive at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was not only rewarding but also required top notch negotiation skills, non-stop customer service for constituents, and impeccable in-

tegrity in all business matters.   Much of his career at USDA was spent as a Statistician, where attention to detail and problem solving were of the utmost impor-tance.  

Bob Burton has an Associate Degree in Manufac-turing Engineering from Delaware Technical Com-munity College. After three years working at National Cash Register, Bob moved to Columbia, MD and spent a long career working for Litton Industries and later for Northrop Grumman as an Operations Program Manager, where he was responsible for $10,000,000 manufacturing budgets. Burton earned his Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Manage-ment from University of Maryland’s University Col-lege.

Bob obtained his Delaware Realtor license in 2012 and is now a member of The Oldfather Group of OA-SIR.

Teresa “T.C.” Cason is a top-performing agent in the region. Her first three years in the industry to-taled more than $20 million. Holding a master’s de-gree in Business Administration, she focuses on resi-

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dential, investment and development/builder real estate, providing an exceptionally high level of customer service to her clients.

Cason has received her ABR, SRES and new GREEN designations and is actively pursuing her CRS designa-tion.  Now a member of The Oldfather Group, she also teaches classes to first-time home-buyers and investors.

Lisanne Kane has an understanding of real estate from her background as a former Regional Manager in mort-gage finance.

She also served as Construction Office Manager for her father, a custom home builder, and has followed in the footsteps of her mother, a Realtor for nearly 30 years. 

Kane ran an avian rescue for 25 years, enjoys volunteering with cancer pa-tients, fundraising with her doves, horseback riding and creating art.  She has worked as a Realtor since 2009. 

As part of The Oldfather Group of OASIR, she enjoys helping clients search and identify the right property and is committed to providing excel-lent client service.

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business licensesEditor’s note: Business licenses are issued in Delaware as a revenue raising tool.

Professional Services

THE ROOM 806 SALON 629 W DIVISION ST DOVER, DE 19904-2701

THE ROOM 806 SALON 629 W DIVISION ST DOVER, DE 19904-2701

THE WINN-WINN SOLUTION 223 HAZEL DR BEAR, DE 19701-1960

TOWLES TIFFANY BLEU RAVEN STUDIO 105 W CHURCH ST SELBYVILLE, DE 19975-2005

TRANSFORMATION HOME CARE LLC 21 W LEXTON RD NEW CASTLE, DE 19720-8824

TRIFFY SAM P APPLIANCE MASTER 35755 EGRET RD SELBYVILLE, DE 19975-4108

TUNNELL AND RAYSOR P A 770 KINGS HWY LEWES, DE 19958-1704

TUNNELL AND RAYSOR P A 32892 COASTAL HWY UNIT 1 BETHANY BEACH, DE 19930-3788

TYLER MEGAN 900 N KING ST STE 320

WILMINGTON, DE 19801-3342

UNCORKED CANVAS PARTIES LLC 1477 SUNNYSIDE RD SMYRNA, DE 19977-3615

UNIQUE PRO-CO, LLC 1301 BIRCH LN WILMINGTON, DE 19809-2464

UNISEARCH INC 1780 BARNES BLVD SW OLYMPIA, WA 98512-0410

UNITIS ALISON ALISON A UNITIS 535B HUDSON AVE BETHANY BEACH, DE 19930-9085

URBAN DIRT LLC 20815 SAPP RD MILFORD, DE 19963-4249

USA-CHINA YOUTH FRIENDSHIP ASSOC 53 STUART DR DOVER, DE 19901-5815

WALK IN URGENT CARE INC 266 S COLLEGE AVE NEWARK, DE 19711-5235

WALTERS KENPO 250 NORTHDOWN DR DOVER, DE 19904-9757

WAZLAVEK BRAD D WAZCORP 103 E SPRUCE ST SEAFORD, DE 19973-2506

RestaurantTHREE STRANDS ENTERPRISE, LLC CHICK-FIL-A AT MIDDLETOWN (DE) 701 S RIDGE AVE MIDDLETOWN, DE 19709-4653

TK LTD BRANDYWINE CATERING 1410 BALTIMORE PIKE CHADDS FORD, PA 19317-9486

Retail

TYZMA LLC 129 HOCKESSIN DR HOCKESSIN, DE 19707-2071

WE R WIRELESS 28665 DUPONT BLVD MILLSBORO, DE 19966-4784

TIGER STREAM INC 3513 CONCORD PIKE, SUITE 3100 NEWARK, DE 19702

TIRE KINGS, LLC BRIDGEVILLE TIRES 18654 S MAIN ST BRIDGEVILLE, DE 19933-3819

TP WIRELESS INC 122 LANTANA DR HOCKESSIN, DE 19707-8800

TRUELIESCC 9 DOVER CT BEAR, DE 19701-1619

VAPOR FEVER LLC 26839 RIVER RD SEAFORD, DE 19973-4339

VEER, INC. PARTY CORNER 501 BRIDGEVILLE HWY SEAFORD, DE 19973-1521

VILONE DENISE CALIFORNIA DREAMIN 235 W LOOCKERMAN ST DOVER, DE 19904-3247

VIMLABA ENTERPRISES INC SCHOOLSIDE 905 E BASIN RD NEW CASTLE, DE 19720-4253

WAWA INC WAWA #864 18586 SUSSEX HWY BRIDGEVILLE, DE 19933-4467

Finance Agency

TJM FINANCIAL GROUP LLC 617 N DUPONT BLVD MILFORD, DE 19963-1099

Broker

TOUCHSTONE SECURITIES INC 1209 N ORANGE ST WILMINGTON, DE 19801-1120

Mover

TRUE VINE TRANSPORTATION LLC 507 E RADISON RUN CLAYTON, DE 19938-3836

WAHOO TRANSPORTATION LLC 27665 AVALON DR GEORGETOWN, DE 19947-6738

Wholesale

U S VENTURE INC 425 BETTER WAY APPLETON, WI 54915-6192

Contractor

UNIVERSAL EXTERIOR CONTRACTORS 2860 OGLETOWN RD NEWARK, DE 19713-1857

WATTS BROTHERS CONTRACTING LLC 32118 CONLEYS CHAPEL RD LEWES, DE 19958-6022

Telecommunications

VAULT TELEPHONE INC 104R NC HIGHWAY 54 BLDG 183 CARRBORO, NC 27510-1559

Commercial Lessor

VEPCO PARK, INC. VEPCO AUTO PO BOX 2 CAMDEN WYO, DE 19934-0002

Sales Representative

VILONE DENISE CALIFORNIA DREAMIN 235 W LOOCKERMAN ST DOVER, DE 19904-3247

Motor Vehicle DealerVW AUTOS INC 408B MECO DR WILMINGTON, DE 19804-1112