Shopping centers adjust to life without Big Box stores

BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK / Published: March 25, 2018 MOOSIC — From the hair salon she manages, Tammy Szajkowski looks across the Birney Mall parking lot and worries. A chain-link fence surrounds the parking spaces in front of the former Kmart. Cellophane tape holds up a sign that says “Store Is…

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Scranton firm buys former Giant supermarket warehouse

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,…

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