Annville East businesses find new homes

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That tenant — Blue Mountain Thrift Store — has a new home picked out in the North Londonderry Square shopping center less than 5 miles west on Route 422, but the move has been pushed back by construction delays.

Roger Custer, CEO of Blue Mountain Ministries Inc., which runs the nonprofit store, originally said he hoped to open at the new location in July, but that got pushed to Aug. 28. Now, after some recent delays, he said he’s hoping for the following week.

“Every day is touch and go,” he wrote in an email.

Custer is one of three businesses that found new homes after Pinnacle announced plans to buy the building and convert it into a primary and secondary outpatient care facility.

Harrisburg-based Pinnacle closed on the building July 15. Site work is expected to begin on the 80,000-square-foot facility in September, with construction starting in the fall, according to Pinnacle spokeswoman Christina Presson. She added that Blue Mountain Thrift Store had been afforded extra time to square away its new store location.

Pinnacle expects to open the facility in summer 2016.

Along with Blue Mountain Thrift Store, the two other full-time tenants of the Annville Township strip mall said they found new homes:

• The Lazer Factory, an indoor, family entertainment center, is building a new facility in the Flightpath Sports Park in South Londonderry Township. Co-owner Susan Cox said she is hoping the new facility is ready to open by mid-November.

She said that the building’s footprint will be identical to the former location and that the other businesses and facilities in the sports park make the location very desirable.

The sports park features businesses such as ice-skating facility Klick Lewis Arena and an indoor sports complex, In the Net, which host large weekend youth sports tournaments. Flightpath also features a basketball training facility run by former Lebanon Valley College standout Andy Panko, bounce house facility Bounce U, Company Dance academy and the current home of the Palmyra Public Library.

“That’s our demographic, the people who go to events there,” said Cox, who owns Lazer Factory with business partner Penny Tice. “It was a bummer to leave, yeah, but you live and learn, and we’re really excited about the new location.”

• Black Swan Antiquities, a collection of antique vendors, announced it will be moving to 50 W. Front St. in Palmyra.

On its Facebook page, the store said it hopes to be open by September. A call for comment was not returned.