WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START YOUR BUSINESS?
Heather Percival
&
Lisa Burke
Township Trading Co., our “little shoppe on the boulevard,” came out
of the want and need for a home for small businesses in our area. Since
we opened in November 2017 we have been home to more than 25 local
small businesses. We knew each other from participating in a number of
charitable events and we were drawn to each other’s drive. Like us, many of
our small business partners previously had in-home or online businesses and
a brick-and-mortar store just seemed out of reach. We are a small business
marketplace of sorts, but with a comfortable and welcoming boutique feel.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT DOING BUSINESS LOCALLY?
We are lucky enough to surround ourselves with community-minded
business partners and customers. We really do have the best customers
and they have become our best form of advertisement! Being part of the
business community we call home is important to us.
WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO JOIN THE CHAMBER?
We have had previous relationships with the Chamber from past jobs and we
knew fi rst-hand how much the Chamber could not only help us grow, but also
help us become a part of a larger community of locally-owned businesses.
Township Trading Co. | South Abington Township
NORTHPOINT DEVELOPMENT PURCHASES LAND IN JESSUP
NorthPoint Development has purchased
70.22 acres of land in the Valley View
Business Park from the Scranton
Lackawanna Industrial Building Company
(SLIBCO) for the construction of a new
one-million-square-foot speculative
distribution facility. SLIBCO is the
industrial development affi liate of the
Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce.
“We are very pleased that a renowned
developer like NorthPoint Development
has chosen to invest in our region—with
our quality workforce, prime location
and access to major markets— to create
jobs and address the demands of the
growing e-commerce industry,” said Bob
Durkin, president, The Greater Scranton
Chamber of Commerce. “We thank
Archbald Borough, Valley View School
District and Lackawanna County for their
critical support which made this deal
possible.”
Boasting 12 buildings ranging in size
up to more than 2.5 million square feet,
the Jessup Small Business Center and
the Valley View Business Park house 22
companies, employing more than 2,000
people. This will be the fi fth building in
Lackawanna County to be constructed
at more than one million square feet in
size; other buildings include the former
Cinram building, Amazon Logistics,
Innovel Solutions (Sears) and Trammell
Crow Co. In November 2018, Trammell
Crow purchased 90 acres of land from
SLIBCO to construct a one-million square
foot speculative distribution facility.
NorthPoint Development is a privately
held development firm based in
Kansas City. Their focus is on Class
A development in the industrial,
senior housing and self-storage
markets within the central part of the
United States. Currently, NorthPoint
Development is active in 16 states
including: Kansas, Missouri, Texas,
Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana,
Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
California, Arizona, Washington, New
York, Georgia, and Florida.
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