Developers complete former Dunmore Price Chopper purchase

Two years in the works, the former Price Chopper Plaza in Dunmore is now owned by real estate developers Gerald and Joseph Ferrario. The entity 1400 Monroe LLC, in which the Ferrarios are involved, purchased a parcel that includes the complex, the final piece in a complicated transaction. Commercial real…

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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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Economic development in the face of fiscal crisis

The future of economic development in downtown Scranton looks like an Exodus — but of the biblical kind, not that of a blockbuster Hollywood movie. As the city struggles with fiscal stability, a clear pattern is forming. Many employers large and small — Vaxserve; Joyce Perih, DDS; Tom Hesser Nissan;…

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