Thorn Hill, other stores keep business brisk at Foxshire Plaza

LANCASTER COUNTY

The Foxshire Plaza shopping center in Manheim Township kept Thomas Troccoli pretty busy this year.

Since its construction in the 1980s, "Foxshire has always been a center that has had no vacancies," said Troccoli, a vice president at Coldwell Banker Commercial Bennett Williams who has managed the property for more than two decades for Delaware-based owner Emory Hill Development Co.

Over the past nine months, however, the tenants of nine storefronts elected not to renew leases, Troccoli said. He and Emory Hill were "scratching our heads," wondering how hard it would be to fill the vacancies in the slow economy, he said.

However, "one by one, …