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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; The city&#8217;s Zoning Hearing Board Wednesday approved a developer&#8217;s request to build an adult day care center on a South Main Street property.</p><p>The board granted a special exception to South Main Plaza L.P. to use the property for a continued care facility, a use not allowed under the zoning in that area.</p><p>George Albert, project engineer, said Geisinger would occupy the 14,000-square-foot building on the approximate 2-acre site at 592 S. Main St. The facility would not have overnight beds for adults brought there for daily care.</p><p>The project&#8217;s total cost is about $5 million and the hope is begin construction this year, Albert said. &#8220;It&#8217;s aggressive, but it&#8217;s really our goal. Geisinger wants to be in here as soon as possible,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Land development plans will be submitted next month to the city, Albert said. &#8220;We submitted to all the other regulatory agencies,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Under the proposed plans property owner Marvin Slomowitz will build the facility and lease it to Geisinger, keeping the property on the tax rolls.</p><p>The tax situation was on the minds of city council that last month approved a request by the developer to have the city apply for a $718,000 Industrial Sites Reuse Program grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to clean up the property. The former Henry Shapiro and Co. scrapyard was located on the property.</p><p>The resolution passed 5-0 by city council also called for Slomowitz to donate the former Planters Peanuts building on the site to a nonprofit organization free of charge. Efforts are underway to create a nonprofit to preserve what remains of the headquarters of the company that was started in Wilkes-Barre.</p><style>
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Zoning approved for proposed adult day care center in Wilkes-Barre