A restored 1920s vaudeville hall where Frank Sinatra once crooned is slowly sparking a rebirth of Pitman’s downtown.
Vacant for years, the Broadway Theatre reopened three years ago as a venue for stage plays, children’s theater, movies, comedy acts, and concerts. Pitman native Peter Slack, who became a successful medical publisher, bought it for $323,000 at a sheriff’s sale and began building loyal audiences that now pack the place most weekends.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, a state-funded nonprofit agency that has been investing in technology firms for more than 25 years, has elected Walter W. Buckley 3d and Kenneth G. Lawrence to its board. Buckley is cofounder,

Catherine M. Cahill grew up a lover of music, but merely playing the cello wasn’t enough. Only pulling the strings behind the scenes would do.

Brandywine Realty Trust, a Radnor real estate investment trust, has announced two promotions.
Brad A. Molotsky was promoted to executive vice president and general counsel from senior vice president and general counsel.

Dear Harry: My parents are well up in years, and both have serious health problems. They have a substantial estate, and they have been giving their children annual gifts in order to reduce the estate tax that will be due. My brother’s wife is a terrible s

One in an occasional series.
Staring at the Rocky Mountains in the summer heat, Mike Deaven, 24 and jobless, was trying to make sense of his fast-fraying life.

Business-property sales in Philadelphia and its suburbs have collapsed in the last year.
As real estate values drop and borrowers slow payments, banks and investors who financed deals at inflated mid-2000s prices face losses, which makes it tougher for them to finance new projects that could help the weak economy.

If a law firm can have a brand, then the trademark practice at Pepper Hamilton L.L.P. would surely be defending big drug companies in sprawling, highly profitable product-liability lawsuits.

The 2011 Chevy Volt, the hybrid car that General Motors Co. hopes will wow the world with its total greenness, will get 230 miles per gallon, the company said last week. These sites check the claim.

Philadelphia’s traffic lights are all about to go green.
The city plans to replace 55,000 green - and yellow - energy-hogging incandescent traffic signals with efficient light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, said Andrew Stober, director of strategic initiatives in the mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities.