Mt. Pleasant frame sprouts at $5M project

Workers on Tuesday started to install a steel frame for a 30,000-square-foot building in Scranton at the Mount Pleasant Corporate Center. Two existing city medical businesses have signed on as tenants at the new building, under development by Beacon Summit at Scranton LLC, officials said Tuesday. The two tenants will…

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Scranton Then & Now

1950: The building across Lackawanna Avenue from Oppenheim’s originally housed the First National Bank of Scranton.  The bank built this building , it’s third home, in 1915 and occupied it from 1916 to 1929. A newer building was then erected on the site buy the state Department of Labor and…

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10 Years: Big Changes, All Computer Driven

In honor of GlobeSt.com’s 10th year anniversary, we’re looking back at the last 10 years in commercial real estate. What’s happened? A number of big changes: the application on a large scale of securitization; the resulting influx of Wall Street capital into the US CRE markets, and the resulting easy…

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