Editing Lancaster, Pennsylvania (section)

==Economy==
[[File:North Duke Street Lancaster.jpg|thumb|Lancaster streetscape]]
Since 2005, Lancaster's downtown has increased the number of specialty shops, boutiques, bars, clubs, and galleries.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/opinion/community-revitalization-lancaster.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Opinion|title=Opinion {{!}} Where American Politics Can Still Work: From the Bottom Up|work=The New York Times |date=July 3, 2018 |access-date=2018-07-04|language=en|last1=Friedman |first1=Thomas L. }}</ref>

Burle Business Park, the city's only commercial and industrial park. originally opened in 1942 as a U.S. Navy electronics research, development and manufacturing plant operated by [[RCA]]. The facility was purchased after World War II by RCA. Burle Business Park was originally occupied by Burle Industries, the successor company to RCA, and a manufacturer of vacuum tube products. Burle completed a voluntary clean-up under the Pennsylvania Land Recycling Program.<ref>PADEP, appendices of Act 2 annual reports</ref>

===Shopping===
{{Further|Central Market (Lancaster)}}
[[File:Lancaster Central Market.JPG|thumb|[[Central Market (Lancaster)|Lancaster Central Market]]]]
In addition to Lancaster's boutiques, vintage shops, and art galleries ('''Gallery Row'''), [[Park City Center]] is the largest enclosed shopping center in [[South Central Pennsylvania]]. The mall includes more than 150 stores and is anchored by [[Boscov's]], [[JCPenney]], and [[Kohl's]]. Park City opened in September 1971.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schuyler|first=David|title=A City Transformed: Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania|date=April 18, 2024 |publisher=Penn State Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f891HxR6y9MC&q=%22park+city%22|access-date=30 July 2012|isbn=9780271045238}}</ref>

Built in 1889, the [[Central Market (Lancaster)|Lancaster Central Market]] is the oldest continuously operated [[farmers market]] in the United States, and many tourists come to purchase the handmade [[Amish]] goods that are not commonly found elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web | title=History of Central Market | work=LancasterPA.net | url=http://www.lancasterpa.net/photo_tour/historic_buildings/central_market.htm | access-date=May 30, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060211180054/http://www.lancasterpa.net/photo_tour/historic_buildings/central_market.htm  |archive-date = February 11, 2006}}</ref> Central Market is listed with the [[National Register of Historic Places]], and its towers are of the Romanesque Revival style. The market underwent renovations beginning in July 2010.<ref name="marketcite">{{cite news|title=Behind The Scenes At Central Market|url=http://www.wgal.com/video/25643609/detail.html?taf=lan|access-date=9 December 2010|newspaper=WGAL-TV News Broadcast (Video)|date=5 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717050834/http://www.wgal.com/video/25643609/detail.html?taf=lan|archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref>

Lancaster also has two outlet shopping centers, both of which are located in [[East Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania|East Lampeter Township]] on [[U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 30]]. [[Tanger Outlets]] is home to about 65 stores. The Shops at Rockvale contains over 100 stores and restaurants.<ref name=outletlanc>{{cite book|title=Fodor's Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country|year=2007|publisher=Fodor's|isbn=978-1-4000-1822-2|page=234|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oE4dRZVxHtMC&q=lancaster+outlets&pg=PA234|access-date=26 January 2011}}</ref>

===Top employers===
According to Lancaster's 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>[https://co.lancaster.pa.us/Archive/ViewFile/Item/2807 City of Lancaster CAFR]</ref> the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
| 1
| [[Lancaster General Hospital]]
| 9,406
|-
|2
| [[Giant Food Stores]]
| Data Not Available
|-
|3
| [[Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|County of Lancaster]]
| 1,681
|-
|4
| [[Nordstrom, Inc.]]
| Data Not Available
|-
|5
| [[Lancaster Laboratories]]
| Data Not Available
|-
|6
| [[School District of Lancaster]]
| 1,646
|-
|7
| [[Dart Container Corporation]]
| Data Not Available
|}