Gov. Tom Wolf visited South Scranton on Friday to tour the 500 and 600 blocks of Cedar Avenue where United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania led a revitalization effort that transformed the community over nearly two decades.
Residents and officials recalled a run-down neighborhood that attracted drug activity and prostitution in the late 1990s and its transition into a lively corridor that is now home to a new generation of residents, immigrants, occupied storefronts and renovated housing…
Photo credit, Jake Danna Stevens
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