A Scranton firm has purchased the former local Giant Markets warehouse from its Allentown owners. Wyoming Avenue Development LLC bought the property at 501 S. Washington Ave. now occupied by Banko North, a division of Banko Beverage in Allentown. Built in 1967 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1974,…
A developer who already has strong ties in the region bought the historic Samter’s building three days after Christmas. Charles Jefferson, whose investment groups own Montage Mountain Resorts, the Connell Building on North Washington Avenue and the Leonard Theater on Adams Avenue, purchased the 43,712-square-foot building for the asking price…
[blockquote align=”left” variation=”deepblue”] For sale downtown Scranton Mall Associates, a company owned by the Boscov family, lost two historic buildings along Lackawanna Avenue to foreclosure this year. Then, the Oppenheim building, at Lackawanna and Wyoming avenues, and the Samter’s building, at Lackawanna and Penn avenues, attracted no bidders at a…
