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County Employee Talks About New Consolidated Government Building

SCRANTON — Anyone looking for a copy of their mortgage or deed in Lackawanna County can find it at the Lackawanna County Gateway Center in Scranton. That&...
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SCRANTON -- Anyone looking for a copy of their mortgage or deed in Lackawanna County can find it at the Lackawanna County Gateway Center in Scranton.

That's where the county's Recorder of Deeds Office is located but it won't be in the next few years.

It is set to relocate to the former Globe store building on Wyoming Avenue.

“So, you know it's our third time moving,” said Deputy Recorder Colleen Eagen Gerrity.

She says her office is used to moving but she still has concerns.

“What I'm hoping for is that somebody is consulting us before we moved to whatever floor or wherever we're going to be over in that building so that when we do move over or when they tell us we're moving everything is ready to be put in place,” said Gerrity.

Two of the three county commissioners voted to purchase the Globe building for $1.3 million and use it for the much-talked about consolidated government office building.

A majority of county departments and services will be moved there in the next two years.

“I think it's a good move for the county just because of the Lackawanna County residents who are all over the place, trying to find the offices they need to be in,” said Eagen Gerrity.

Most of the county's offices are scattered throughout downtown Scranton.

One is as far away as Mayfield near Carbondale. The new consolidated government building will give people a one-stop shop.

Donald Sefcik of Carbondale thinks it's a great idea.

He said, “When I moved here, it was actually nine years ago, it was very hard because we had to go to the building department. Then we had to go to the Prothonotary’s office and that was two blocks away and that was hard walking around for me.”

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