Inch & Co. Construction, in partnership with Cascade Capital, announced a new townhome development project, University Park Townes, and planned to break ground this upcoming September in State College.

Just eight minutes north of Beaver Stadium, High Tech Road will highlight this $47 million project just steps away from the State College Regional Airport.

For a short-term or long-term stay in Happy Valley, this property has you covered.

Brandy Meyer said she believes the development approach is a timely response to the concurrent changes in the housing market.

“At Inch & Co., we view build-to-rent as a strategic answer to shifting housing trends and renter preferences,” Meyer, Inch & Co.’s Head of Capital Markets, said. “It’s a model designed to deliver both stable long-term leases and premium short-term income, fueled by Penn State and local employment demand.”

University Park Townes is a 15.7 acre community that will feature 17 buildings with 146 three-story townhomes.

The townhomes will offer 1,478 square feet across three bedrooms, and 3.5 bathrooms with rent averaging around $2,300 per month.

In addition, 40 to 73 short-term rental units with two bedrooms and 1.5 baths covering 830 square feet will have open doors to visiting alumni and weekend football fans.

Former Penn State quarterback Beau Pribula expressed his connection with the founders of Inch & Co.

“I love Johnny and Jeff Inch, (and) they’ve been in my corner since high school,” Beau said. “I’d always ask them questions about their business and naturally had an interest in real estate.”

What began as two separate landscaping businesses combined in 2012, when brothers Johnny and Jeff Inch merged their operations to launch Inch & Co., a vertically integrated real estate firm based in York, Pennsylvania.

With their early support for Penn State football’s NIL program and ongoing collaboration with the university’s alumni, the development is as much about giving back as it is about building forward for the Inch brothers.

Reflecting on that point, Beau added his thoughts on the construction as an investor.

“I’m in a position now where investing is a must,” Beau said. “I’m an LP (limited partner) in a couple of deals already with Inch, and a townhome project in State College seems to make a lot of sense.”

Joining him on the investment side is fellow Penn State alum and former tight end Adam Breneman, who has also partnered with Inch & Co. on other projects.

The development’s capital formation is being managed by Cascade Capital and Breneman Media, with property management led by Inch & Co. Property Management.

While the company has earned its reputation developing multi-family properties in York and surrounding counties, Inch & Co. recently announced plans to expand into emerging markets in North Carolina and Ohio.

However, State College remains a sentimental favorite.

Cade Pribula, Beau’s brother and investor of University Park Townes, expressed his expectations for the soon-to-begin development.

“Everyone at Cascade Capital and Inch & Co. is excited about the University Park Townes development in State College,” Cade said. “A lot of employees, stakeholders and partners have PSU ties, and will use this as an excuse to get up to State College a couple more times a year.”

For fans of Penn State football, real estate or both, University Park Townes represents an opportunity to be part of something that blends investing with true Nittany pride.

For Johnny and Jeff Inch, it’s another chance to build a community in their favorite backyard.

The development is now open to accredited investors with a minimum investment of $100,000. The project is targeting a 20% internal rate of return and a 2.5x equity multiple.

Those interested in investing may contact bmeyer@inchandco.com for more information.

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There are certain things you expect when you come home for the summer: overpacked drawers in your childhood room, questions from relatives about your major and, like clockwork, running into people from high school everywhere you go.

This summer, I’ve been working at the local community center. It’s a good gig: scan some IDs, give some tours and occasionally point to where the water fountain is. But what I didn’t expect was just how much of a social rewind it would become.

Every week, like some kind of low-stakes ritual, the same four guys from my high school show up to play basketball. Without fail, they come through the doors, gym bags slung over their shoulders, looking like they never left senior year behind. They aren’t bad guys, just the types who always seemed like they had something to prove.

Back in school, they were loud, semi-athletic and kind of everywhere. Not people I hung out with, not people I had real problems with either. Just … those guys. The ones you remember mostly because they were hard to ignore.

Now they stroll in like they own the place. One of them always tosses a comment my way, usually something like “still working hard, huh?” with a smirk that suggests he thinks this job is somehow a punchline. I smile, say “yep,” and scan him in, even though I already know all of their names by now.

They head to the gym, where I can hear the squeak of their sneakers and occasional shouts of “foul” echoing through the halls like it’s the state finals.

Weirdly, these guys have become part of the rhythm of my summer. It’s not that I dislike them, it’s just that running into them every week reminds me how much has changed for me and how much hasn’t for some people.

In college, everything feels new. You’re surrounded by people who don’t know your past, who meet you as you are now. Back home, there’s this weird weight of familiarity, like you’re being slotted back into an old version of yourself, whether or not it still fits.

It’s not just them. A couple of my coworkers are from my graduating class and a few are younger. People I remember seeing around school when I was a junior or senior.

It’s strange working with someone who once sat a few rows behind you in math class and now you’re swapping shifts and gossiping about weird gym patrons like you’ve been friends the whole time.

There’s an unspoken rule when you run into someone from high school: pretend it’s not weird. You both recognize each other, maybe say a casual “hey” and go about your day. It’s like a social muscle you haven’t used in a while, polite nods, vague smiles and lots of mutual pretending that the past doesn’t sit between you.

I have to admit, as much as I internally roll my eyes when I see those four guys checking in again, there’s something oddly comforting about it, too. They’re consistent. They show up. They still have that energy, that chemistry, like they never skipped a beat.

While I’m not trying to relive my high school days, something is grounding about seeing familiar faces doing something they love — even if I wouldn’t choose to join them.

Maybe that’s just part of being home. It’s a weird in-between space. You’re not the person you were in high school, but you’re not quite fully formed either.

So you navigate this strange middle ground, bumping into people who knew you when you were figuring it all out. Some are doing the same things and some have changed in ways you don’t expect.

Either way, running into people from high school is its own kind of summer tradition. It’s not always pleasant, but it’s part of the landscape — like sunburns, late-night fast food runs and trying to remember your Wi-Fi password at home.

My shift ends, the guys head out with sweaty shirts and inside jokes and I get ready to do it again next time. Because like the heat and the mosquitoes, some things about summer never change.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday that despite frequent conversations with Big Ten counterpart Tony Petitti, the two leagues have yet to agree on the College Football Playoff format after this coming season and could leave it at 12 teams.

The disagreement doesn’t stem from a lack of communication. Sankey said he spoke with Petitti four times last week.

“We had a different view coming out of Destin around the notion of allocations,” Sankey said. “The Big Ten has a different view. That’s fine. We have a 12-team playoff, five conference champions. That could stay if we can’t agree.”

The Big Ten, which has won the last two national championships, favors a 4-4-2-2-1 format, giving four automatic bids to the SEC and Big Ten and awarding the ACC and Big 12 two bids apiece. The SEC, originally thought to be on the same page, switched gears at its spring meetings in Destin, Florida. The SEC favors five conference champions and 11 at-large bids, which would presumably favor the top conferences most seasons.

The CFP announced in May that teams in the upcoming playoff will be seeded strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions. Last season’s jumbled bracket, the first with 12 teams, gave byes to Big 12 champion Arizona State and Mountain West champion Boise State, even though they were ranked 12th and ninth, respectively, by the playoff selection committee.

That system made the rankings and the seedings in the tournament two different things. The five highest-ranked conference champions will still be guaranteed spots in the playoff.

While the CFP contract from 2026 through the 2031 season requires the SEC and Big Ten to consult other leagues about prospective changes to the playoff system, it also provides them with the ability to impose changes they both want.

Now it’s a matter of getting on the same page.

“I think there’s this notion that there has to be this magic moment and something has to happen with expansion and it has to be forced — no,” Sankey said. “When you’re given authority, you want to be responsible in using that authority. I think both of us are prepared to do so. The upfront responsibility in this, maybe where some of the confusion lies, is we have the ability to present a format or format ideas, gather information, see if we can all agree within that room. We don’t need unanimity.”

Sankey stands firm on the 8-game schedule

One of the major complications in the College Football Playoff conversation is the SEC’s schedule. Three of the four power conferences play nine league games. The SEC isn’t one of them.

Sankey isn’t denying the fact that the SEC plays one less league game, but he won’t allow the narrative that it gives his conference an advantage.

“It is absolutely fully 100 percent correct that in the SEC, we play eight conference games while some others play nine conference games — never been a secret,” Sankey said. “It’s also correct that last season, all 16 members of the Southeastern Conference played at least nine games against what you would label ‘power opponents.’”

He doubled down.

“I don’t believe there’s anyone looking to swap their conference schedule and its opponents with the opponents played by SEC conference teams in our conference schedule, be it eight or nine.”

A decision on adding a ninth game may be coming soon, but Sankey wasn’t overly eager to reveal a timeline.

“It won’t linger terribly much longer. We have to make decisions about the ’26 season and adjust. If we’re going to go to nine games, then there have to be games moved or rescheduled. If we stay at eight, probably a little easier on that part of the logistics.”

Adapting to the new normal

Sankey addressed the media-packed room two weeks after the NCAA settlement officially went into effect, launching a long list of changes, including the introduction of revenue sharing.

Most Power Four institutions have had carefully crafted post-settlement plans in store for months. But according to Sankey, even deep-pocketed, well-resourced conferences have struggled to adapt.

“We’re in the middle of change, and in the middle of anything significant, it will get messy. That doesn’t mean you leave. In a marathon, it doesn’t mean you step off the course because myself, as poorly as I may have felt sometimes after two or three miles, recall that those moments might actually produce the best efforts,” he said.

But in a time when many have been quick to call college sports a dying breed, Sankey begs to differ.

“Let me be clear. From my perspective, college athletics is not broken,” he said. “It is under stress. It is strained.”