Owner Marywood University signs option agreement with Los Angeles company. STAFF WRITER A developer could soon convert the former Scranton State School for the Deaf property into apartments, a restaurant and an events venue. Marywood University, which purchased the 10-acre property in the city’s Green Ridge section in 2011, signed…
Scranton benefits from several key elements that help spur downtown renewal: preserved historic buildings; numerous government facilities and nearby hospitals, colleges and other institutions; and a daily influx of thousands of employees and others who work at or use those services. While Scranton has a sprawling, 25-square-mile footprint, the downtown…
A developer who already has strong ties in the region bought the historic Samter’s building three days after Christmas. Charles Jefferson, whose investment groups own Montage Mountain Resorts, the Connell Building on North Washington Avenue and the Leonard Theater on Adams Avenue, purchased the 43,712-square-foot building for the asking price…
