CEBA construction complete, chamber learns

SHENANDOAH – The Center for Education, Business, and the Arts is just about complete, Shenandoah’s business community learned on Thursday.

“We officially had our last board meeting at the Damato Post this week,” Brad Oravitz, Shenandoah Chamber of Commerce vice president and Downtown Shenandoah, Inc. board member, told the chamber at Thursday’s regular meeting. “We will officially be in that building next month for our first meeting.”

“I walked through it the other day, it’s incredible. It’s beautiful,” Oravitz added. “All spaces are filled, all leased already, with people on a waiting list to try to get in.”

He said an open house will be held soon and a date for the ribbon cutting has not yet been set.

Among the tenants moving into the building is the Primary Health Network, the only general healthcare facility in Shenandoah. They are moving from their current location in the old Movie Gallery building on the west end.

DSI broke ground on the new facility, the first new commercial building in downtown Shenandoah in a quarter century, in April of 2024.

It fills the long-empty lot where Davison’s Furniture and Thunder Road once stood.

The center has been nearly ten years in the making and has been described as a “game-changer for the anthracite region” at previous community meetings.

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