Downtown Businesses

• Downtown Wilkes-Barre contains the largest concentration of office space in Northeastern Pennsylvania: a total of 4 million square feet, or around three quarters of the office space in the Greater Wilkes-Barre area.

 

• Over 14,000 people work in Downtown Wilkes-Barre each weekday.

 

• Downtown Wilkes-Barre is home to 686 businesses, including the corporate headquarters of some of Northeastern Pennsylvania's largest and most well-known companies: Blue Cross of Northeastern PA, Frontier, GUARD Insurance Group, Lackawanna Casualty Company, Parente Randolph, Penn Millers Insurance Company, Pepperjam, and Solid Cactus.

 

• Downtown Wilkes-Barre is the seat of government for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania's eleventh-largest county; the site of Federal courts for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and home to numerous state and Federal offices.

 

• Downtown Wilkes-Barre is located in the center of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

 

• 625,000+ people reside in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton MSA

 

• 310,000+ people reside within a 20-minute drive of Downtown Wilkes-Barre

 

• 85,000+ people reside within 3 miles of Downtown Wilkes-Barre

 

• The Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton MSA has approximately 8 million square feet of office space.