Labor Skills, Cost, Rank at Top of List of Important Site Selection Factors
Area Development’s annual corporate survey ranks the site selection factors executives consider most important when deciding where to open new facilities. Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services compared the most recent rankings in 2023 to an average of the rankings from 2016 through 2023. Several interesting shifts in preferences are worth noting. Averaging first on the […]
Molly Blaskiewicz Joins Mericle Marketing Team
Molly Blaskiewicz has joined Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services as a Marketing Associate. She graduated from Wilkes University in December 2024 with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Marketing. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at Wilkes. Molly was born and raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania and has a passion for social media content creation. […]
Mericle Thanks Governor Shapiro and Partners for Supporting REV Copack’s Expansion and Job Creation
Mericle extends thanks to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, his BusinessPA team, and our friends at NEPA Alliance, for facilitating a $1.5 million low-interest PIDA loan to help REV Copack, our tenant in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park East, purchase machinery & equipment. A $55,000 WEDnetPA training grant was also awarded to the company. REV Copack […]
Olympia Chimney Hosts Ribbon Cutting Ceremony in CenterPoint East
Olympia Chimney Supply Holdings, LLC, and its subsidiaries, Copperfield Chimney and Olympia Chimney & Venting, (Olympia) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 5th at its new manufacturing facility in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park East.
Mericle Welcomes Summer Interns
Meet Ava Ava Radel, a finance major at Virginia Commonwealth University, is interning in the accounting department at Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services. At VCU, Ava originally was a science major but after working with numbers and because of her love of math, she switched her major to finance. Ava is looking to build connections, […]
Mericle Welcomes Summer Interns
Meet Jacob Jacob Connolly, a student at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, is a summer intern in the civil engineering department at Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services. He first heard about Mericle through his uncle, Dan Connolly, who holds a position as Sitework Manager with the company. Initially interested in civil engineering after graduating from Dallas High […]
Cardbox Packaging Cuts the Ribbon after Four Years, Celebrates Success of Pittston Township Manufacturing Plant
Executives from Cardbox Packaging’s Austrian headquarters hosted a ceremony to celebrate the success of the company’s United States manufacturing headquarters in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park West, Pittston Township. The company’s local employees and numerous dignitaries attended the ceremonial ribbon cutting.
Two Job Fairs Scheduled for CenterPoint
CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park in Pittston Township will be the site of two job fairs during the week of May 22nd. On Tuesday May 23 and Wednesday May 24, area residents seeking positions in commercial construction or property maintenance can opt for the “Recruitment Rodeo.” The two-day rodeo – a hiring event – is […]
Outwater Industries Purchases Landmark Wilkes-Barre Industrial Building
Outwater Industries, a family-owned company headquartered in Bogota, New Jersey has purchased the 179,908 square foot industrial building at 350 North Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilkes-Barre. The company will use the building to distribute a wide variety of products to commercial and retail end users. Founded in 1972, the company operates distribution centers in Bogota and Phoenix, […]
Tenants in Mericle Buildings Employ 20,000 People
A new survey has determined that more than 20,000 people are working in buildings developed by Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mericle recently surveyed its tenants and clients to obtain their employment totals. “More than 200 companies, including 40 Fortune 100 firms, occupy the 28 million square feet we’ve developed,” said Mericle […]