Cooper’s seafood restaurant in Pittston is for sale for $1.5 million, but business is great and it is not closing, owner Jack Cooper said. Cooper, 61, said he and his 60-year-old brother Paul have been in the restaurant business since they were 9 years old and they want more time off to spend with their families and take a vacation.  While the landmark Pittston restaurant is listed for sale for $1.5 million on the Greater Wilkes-Barre Association of Realtors’ website, Read more [...]

PITTSTON — Cooper’s Seafood Waterfront, a staple of Greater Pittston for decades, is for sale — and may soon close.An employee at the restaurant confirmed to the Times Leader this morning that the Pittston restaurant, located at 304 Kennedy Blvd., is on the market. Another employee said the company’s plan is to close the Pittston location after it is sold.Atlas Realty Inc. has listed the building for $1.5 million. Sale of the 13,689-square-foot facility includes almost all contents of the Read more [...]

Cooper’s seafood restaurant at 304 Kennedy Blvd. in Pittston is listed for sale for $1.5 million on the Greater Wilkes-Barre Association of Realtors’ website.

Owner Jack Cooper did not return calls for comment.

Owned and operated by the Cooper family since 1992, Cooper’s has become a landmark in Pittston. The location is 13,689 square feet. Cooper’s also has a seafood restaurant in Scranton.

Cooper’s seafood restaurant in Pittston is for sale for $1.5 million, but business is great and it is not closing, owner Jack Cooper said. Cooper, 61, said he and his 60-year-old brother Paul have been in the restaurant business since they were 9 years old and they want more time off to spend with their families and take a vacation.  While the landmark Pittston restaurant is listed for sale for $1.5 million on the Greater Wilkes-Barre Association of Realtors’ website, Read more [...]

Schock sold his home to an executive at Caterpillar Inc., in 2012 for more than three times its assessed value, the liberal website Blue Nation Review reported last week. Caterpillar is headquartered in Schock’s district and the executive, former vice president Ali Bahaj, had donated to Schock, the website said.Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said the Office of Congressional Ethics should investigate whether the sale violated federal law and House rules.The congressman has Read more [...]

The lavish condo that was home to the late comedian Joan Rivers for 25 years was listed for sale Monday for $28 million. The 11-room penthouse occupies three floors of a limestone mansion in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood. Rivers' daughter, Melissa Rivers, put the home up for sale a day after she accepted her mother's posthumous Grammy award for a recording of her memoir, Diary of a Mad Diva. The home was originally built in 1903 for a family of Gilded Read more [...]

(Bloomberg) -- The Manhattan penthouse once home to Joan Rivers, the comedian and television personality who died last September, was listed for sale Monday at $28 million. The 5,100-square-foot (470-square-meter) triplex on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was owned by Rivers for 25 years, according to a brokerage listing by Leighton Candler of Corcoran Group. The property, at 1 East 62nd St., off Fifth Avenue, was built in 1903, and its original owners were Alice and John S. Drexel, according Read more [...]

Land Sale CUMULUS has put the land under the transmission towers of News-Talk WMAL-A/WASHINGTON in BETHESDA MD up for sale, according to the MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL. No asking price has been attached to the property by broker CBRE GROUP, INC. but CBRE SVP JOHN SHERIDAN noted, "75 acres in BETHESDA.  You don't need to say anything more than Read more [...]

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A 1 of 1 Porsche 918 Spyder painted in Voodoo Blue has been listed for sale on eBay Motors. The listing claims that this Porsche 918 Spyder is the only one in the world with a Voodoo Blue paint job. DDW Partners out of Scottsdale, Arizona is handling the sale of the car and has listed the car for a ‘But It Now’ price of $1,350,000. According to the listing, the car boats a $9,500 clear bra that coats the front of the car as well as some of the carbon fiber interior trim. Read more [...]