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During the early 1980s, as Scranton struggled with 13 percent unemployment and a slumping economy, city leaders conceived of a redeveloped station as tourist attraction and rallying point. "Basically, we're looking for people to come to Scranton who would not come to Scranton normally," Mayor James McNulty told the Associated Press in 1982. "We ...
Lackawanna Avenue Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.It encompasses 69 contributing buildings in a variety of architectural styles, including Late Victorian, Classical Revival, and Art Deco.
Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census, [4] Scranton is the most populous city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley metropolitan area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020.
Pennsylvania Route 307 (PA 307) is a north–south route of the Pennsylvania Highway System that runs for 31 miles (50 km). The southern terminus is PA 435 in Covington Township and the northern terminus is PA 92 in Tunkhannock Township. The highway is called Scranton-Pocono Highway south of Scranton, connecting Scranton to the Pocono Mountains ...
I-84 westbound at PA 247 in Jefferson Township. I-84 starts in Pennsylvania at I-81 in Dunmore, a suburb east of Scranton, along with the northern end of I-380.After two miles (3.2 km), I-84 splits from I-380, as the latter goes southeasterly through the Poconos and I-84 continues almost due east into Wayne and Pike counties.
From 1908 through 1970, passenger trains to Scranton used the Lackawanna Railroad's large station, now a Radisson hotel. [7] The Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project is an ongoing effort to revive passenger rail from New York to Scranton, with construction already underway on Phase I: an NJ Transit extension from Lake Hopatcong to Andover, New Jersey.
The eastern terminus of the route was cut back to the relocated US 6 at the Scranton-Carbondale Highway (now US 6 Bus.) in the 1940s. [9] PA 107 was extended back east to unnumbered Washington Avenue in Jermyn in the 1970s. [10] In 1995, PA 107 was extended east from Washington Avenue to the newly-constructed US 6 freeway along a new two-lane road.
The Marketplace at Steamtown (formerly The Mall at Steamtown) [8] is a shopping mall in Scranton, Pennsylvania. United States. United States. It was conceived in the mid-1980s as the keystone of downtown revitalization, though the project was not completed until 1993.