Restaurants, residences planned for former Whistles Pub

By David Falchek (Staff Writer)    Published: October 4, 2012 A downtown developer’s plans for a vacant building on Franklin Avenue promises to bring more business and foot traffic to what just a year ago had been a neglected block of downtown. This week, Art Russo of Scranton purchased the Bittenbender…

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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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Piece of Glenmaura up for bids in online auction

One of the last undeveloped parcels of land in Glenmaura will be auctioned off to the highest online bidder, eBay-style. The wooded 3.24 acres in Moosic just a few tenths of a mile beyond the main entrance to PNC Field on the left will go up for bids at an…

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