09/21/2026
Friday, all eyes were on the Scranton Electric Building.
Governor Josh Shapiro, state and local leaders and the cameras were there as Fidelity Bank celebrated the Grand Opening of its new Corporate Center.
The media coverage captured the significance of the moment and the positive impact to Scranton. What the cameras couldn’t capture was nearly four years of decisions about what to preserve, what to change, where to invest, where to compromise and where absolutely not to.
Great projects aren’t defined by one big idea. They’re defined by thousands of decisions that never lose sight of it.
Like matching new stain to 130-year-old wood after a weekend of running between paint stores. Tracing the original quarry so broken and gouged marble could be replaced with the same stone. Digitally mapping and leveling every floor before the new glass walls went in, because a century of settling doesn’t care about a modern design.
Most of these decisions will never be noticed. That’s the point.
None of it happens alone. Thank you to our collaborators at Krieger Architects, to L.R. Costanzo Co., Inc., and to the engineers, consultants and craftspeople whose hands are in every corner of this building.
Thank you to Dan Santaniello, the Fidelity team and its board, who trusted all of us with an idea that mattered deeply to their organization and their community. They challenged us, listened to us and stayed committed when the answers weren’t easy.
There are four years of stories behind those doors. We’re ready to start telling them.
📰 Coverage of the Grand Opening: https://www.wvia.org/news/local/2026-09-18/leaders-call-fidelity-bank-headquarters-an-investment-in-employees-scrantons-downtown
📸: Alexander Monelli / WVIA
Aimee Dilger / WVIA
