Mercer commissioners buying Citizens Bank building

MERCER, Pa. — Mercer County commissioners are buying the building at Pa. Route 19 and North Diamond Street for approximately $340,000.

The building, which is across the street from the county courthouse, has Citizens Bank on the ground floor and a few tenants on the second floor. Commissioner Brian Beader said these tenants will remain in the building and the county will use lease revenue to help offset the purchase cost. There is 4,500 square feet vacant on the building’s 5,300 square foot second floor. Commissioners are considering moving the juvenile probation offices, domestic relations or the bridge department into the building. All these offices are “squashed” in their current quarters, Beader said.

Commissioners said Tuesday they are dealing with real estate broker Caldwell Banker and did not know who owns the building.