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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Marywood to seek buyer for deaf school campus

SARAH HOFIUS HALL, TIMES-TRIBUNE, STAFF WRITER                    Published: February 4, 2015 A 10-acre property in Scranton’s Green Ridge section could soon have new life — and a new purpose. Marywood University is seeking a buyer for the former Scranton State School for the Deaf property, which has sat vacant since 2011….

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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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