Community leaders: Mall at Steamtown must adapt

LAURA FAY, STAFF WRITER (Scranton Times-Tribune)       Published: May 10, 2015 Community leaders look at the Mall at Steamtown and see possibilities in the empty store windows and vacant restaurant counters. There are about 50 tenants in 85 storefronts, according to a count by BusinessWeekly, and not all are retailers. Just…

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Popular artist takes lease on Watres Armory

Published: April 26, 2015  — The Times – Tribune An American artist known for colorful pictures of birds and rabbits and a compulsion for collecting is leasing the Watres Armory in Scranton and pledges to preserve the building. What Hunt Slonem, the Manhattan-based artist, will do with the building is…

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Marywood to seek buyer for deaf school campus

SARAH HOFIUS HALL, TIMES-TRIBUNE, STAFF WRITER                    Published: February 4, 2015 A 10-acre property in Scranton’s Green Ridge section could soon have new life — and a new purpose. Marywood University is seeking a buyer for the former Scranton State School for the Deaf property, which has sat vacant since 2011….

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