Owner Marywood University signs option agreement with Los Angeles company. STAFF WRITER A developer could soon convert the former Scranton State School for the Deaf property into apartments, a restaurant and an events venue. Marywood University, which purchased the 10-acre property in the city’s Green Ridge section in 2011, signed…
A Wilkes-Barre developer bought the last historic building for sale on Lackawanna Avenue in Scranton. D&D SNB LLC bought the towering SNB Plaza Building at North Washington and Lackawanna avenues for $945,000 from contractor Carl Scartelli, who had bought the building in 2007 for $1.1 million. D&D principal Nicholas Dye…
Scranton benefits from several key elements that help spur downtown renewal: preserved historic buildings; numerous government facilities and nearby hospitals, colleges and other institutions; and a daily influx of thousands of employees and others who work at or use those services. While Scranton has a sprawling, 25-square-mile footprint, the downtown…
