{"id":40765,"date":"2025-11-21T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40765\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:03:10","slug":"jo-dan-motors-of-moosic-acquires-nearby-property-to-expand-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40765\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo-Dan Motors of Moosic acquires nearby property to expand business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Jo-Dan Buick GMC, a Downvalley car dealership, continues to grow, Danny Limongelli, president of Jo-Dan Motors of Moosic, purchased property across the street to accommodate extra vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Jo-Dan Motors of Moosic LLC acquired the former Trotters Motel and Travel Inn property, 4217 Birney Ave. \u2014 which spans 1.75 acres \u2014 from Parmar LLC for $825,000, according to a deed recorded Nov. 5 in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Limongelli noted that increased business at the Buick dealership along Birney Avenue led to the decision to buy additional land. He plans to demolish the hotel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The former Travel Inn is seen on Birney Ave in...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The former Travel Inn is seen on Birney Ave in Moosic Wednesday, November 19, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Owner of Jo-Dan Buick GMC Danny Limongelli poses for a...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-JODAN-1120-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Owner of Jo-Dan Buick GMC Danny Limongelli poses for a photograph across the street from the former Travel Inn on Birney Ave. in Moosic Wednesday, November 19, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>The former Travel Inn is seen on Birney Ave in Moosic Wednesday, November 19, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re expanding and keep getting bigger year-after-year,\u201d Limongelli said. \u201cThere has been 40% growth year-after-year with Buicks. It\u2019s basically for inventory to be put over there for storage. The intention is to level the building. It\u2019s been an eyesore; I\u2019ve been staring at it for almost seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Limongelli added that borough officials expressed approval of the project during a recent visit to the dealership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were all thankful that we\u2019re actually doing something with that property,\u201d he said. \u201cThe police used to stake out the place just because of the criminal activity that was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Limongelli expects demolition to occur in about a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we\u2019re just using it for unloading vehicles that come in,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll probably put vehicles over there now, but we also want to start cleaning up the area as much as we could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s cost remains unclear as Limongelli awaits estimates, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moosic Mayor Bob Bennie praised Jo-Dan\u2019s commitment to the community and said he looks forward to continued success for the dealership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a great development,\u201d he said. \u201cI appreciate Jo-Dan Motors taking that positive step in the borough. They\u2019re a great corporate neighbor and partner, and we\u2019re glad to see them making the investment in Moosic and staying and growing in Moosic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Jo-Dan Buick GMC, a Downvalley car dealership, continues to grow, Danny Limongelli, president of Jo-Dan Motors of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,1214,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-40765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-moosic","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}