Wilkes Barre Metropolitan Development Corporation

Growth in the core of the city by embracing technology as the distinguishing factor to attract business, growth and residents. Embraced advanced deployment of broadband and now geothermal using heat pumps with the source being abandoned coal mine water which is plentiful and available below the surface of the city in flooded abandoned coal mine voids. By pumping the water through an existing abandoned city steam pipes that penetrates 90% of all buildings - geothermal technology can be used to have fossil free heating and cooling affordably to create the United States first "Green City".