Another Hotel Going Up In Williamsport

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

September 16, 2011 | 1:02 PM

Yet another hotel is being built in Williamsport, where the city’s lodgings are all booked for months at a time, due to heavy Marcellus Shale drilling in the region.
From the Sun-Gazette:

A 97-room Residence Inn by Marriott, proposed for 145 W. Third St., is a step closer to reality today.
City Council Thursday night approved demolition of the building housing the former CareerLink and Wilson’s warehouse during its meeting Thursday night to make way for the planned hotel by New York developer George Tsunis.
The building design indicates a four-story flagship hotel. An agreement of sale is moving foward and the request by Chartwell Laurel St. LLC for demolition was granted.