NEPA swept up in the tide of ‘BoWash’

The year 2010 looked a long way off in 1968, I was 18 and a freshman at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., having left safe, secure, clean, friendly Scranton for a city that had just come through a riot with blocks of charred buildings. The closest thing I ever came…

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Panama Canal explansion could boost NEPA’s economy

By David Falchek (Staff Writer)                                                       Published: September 23, 2012 A massive construction project thousands of miles away could be a boost to Northeast Pennsylvania’s economy. The Panama Canal expansion, when completed in 2014, will expand the capacity of the now fully-booked shipping route from Asia. For years, cargo that couldn’t…

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Focus: Commercial Real Estate – An ‘eastern inland empire’

Josh Barr Published: July 3, 2012 Copyright ©2012 Business570 Hinerfeld Commercial Real Estate broker/owner John Cognetti says things happening in Central America will impact northeastern Pennsylvania. He is talking about the widening of the Panama Canal and its effect on distribution and logistics in America in 2014. What’s gradually happening…

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