Downtown Shenandoah, Inc. announces opening day set for CEBA

KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - The new Center for Education, Business, and the Arts in downtown Shenandoah, seen on March 19, 2026.

SHENANDOAH – A project at least ten years in the making is now less than two weeks away from officially opening.

Downtown Shenandoah, Inc. is set to cut the ribbon on the Center for Education, Business, and the Arts on North Main Street.

The ribbon-cutting is set for April 30 at 11am. Guided tours will be provided afterward.

The center has been in the works since at least 2016. On the site of the former Davison’s Furniture Store and Thunder Road nightclub on North Main Street, it features a business incubator as well as event space and classroom space for Penn State Schuylkill, the Primary Health Network Shenandoah Center, and more.

CEBA is the first new-construction building in downtown Shenandoah in nearly a quarter century. The last new commercial buildings downtown were Rite Aid in 2000, the Pottsville Internists Associates (now Shenandoah Ambulance) building in 1990, Rite Aid again (now Shenandoah One Stop) in 1988, and Burger King in 1988.

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