Expand<\/a><\/p>\nAmong the other properties on the street, Basalyga noted he\u2019s working to finalize a deal with a potential commercial tenant for 109 Wyoming Ave., which he purchased in March 2023 for $210,000.<\/p>\n
In June, Friendly Alien Books opened on the first floor of 111 Wyoming Ave., which Basalyga purchased in January 2023 for $250,000.<\/p>\n
Ongoing work at 109-111 Wyoming Ave. includes the construction of four apartments \u2014 one each on the second and third floors of each building \u2014 which Basalyga expects to be completed in the next 30 to 40 days, and a facade project featuring stone and a canopy roof, which he said will start to take shape in the next week or two.<\/p>\n
Basalyga purchased the five-story former Dime Bank and later Mellon Bank building at 134 Wyoming Ave., which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in June 2024 for $1.7 million and continues to market the property.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve brought a couple people through and we have some interest for the first floor, which is commercial,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not sure what we\u2019re going to do with the rest yet, but we\u2019re working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Basalyga purchased property at 115-117 Wyoming Ave. in September 2022 for $760,000. He intends to reconfigure the property at 115 Wyoming Ave. starting next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m probably going to add a couple floors onto that, so it\u2019s back to its original height \u2014 that will be a 2026 project,\u201d Basalyga said. \u201cYears ago, it was a three- or four-story building and our plan is to build it back up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Basalyga envisions a strip mall setup with several commercial tenants on the bottom floor and likely residential units above.<\/p>\n
In January, Dolly\u2019s Boutique moved into the bottom floor of 117 Wyoming Ave. and The Llenaj Space \u2014 an event venue \u2014 occupies the second floor, Basalyga said. The third and fourth floors have remnants of a former gym.<\/p>\n
\u201cWyoming Avenue is coming alive,\u201d Basalyga said. \u201cYears ago, when those buildings became available, they sat empty. I just figured I\u2019d take a shot at them. They\u2019re smaller projects than I usually do (109-111 and 115 Wyoming) but they\u2019re important for the overall business community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re driving down our streets, you don\u2019t see many vacant buildings anymore, so that\u2019s a really, really good thing. Anytime I see an empty building, I say there\u2019s an opportunity. I think it\u2019s so important to increase our business network downtown and then add in the residential element above it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monday Update<\/p>\n
THEN: Developer John Basalyga purchased multiple properties on the 100 block of Wyoming Avenue over the past several years with plans to transform the street.<\/p>\n
NOW: Work continues on several of the buildings, including 130 Wyoming Ave., which will include a Building Blocks Learning Center and 13 apartments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developer John Basalyga noticed more than just a bunch of mostly vacant buildings along the 100 block of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-72521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","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\/72521","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=72521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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