KINGSTON — A Maryland developer is turning the former CVS on Market Street between North Welles and North Thomas avenues into a new shopping center which will include a fitness center. Orangetheory Fitness is signing a lease to be one of the tenants, said Bob Statkiewicz, a partner in Aberdeen…

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There’s a heated Sheetz/Wawa rivalry everywhere but here

Wawa’s Shorti or Sheetz’s Shnack Wrap? How you answer might tell people where you’re from, or at least where you prefer to get your gas and lunch to go. The loyalty war between Pennsylvania’s dominating convenience stores rages just south of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. But the two never waged…

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Real Estate summit promises growth in NEPA

SCRANTON — Every seat was filled at the second annual Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) Real Estate Summit, held Wednesday at the Hilton Scranton & Conference Center. More than 225 business and community leaders interested in commercial and industrial real estate joined event host Penn’s Northeast, NEPA’s regional economic development agency, to…

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