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Distributed/City of BethlehemThe Gateway on Fourth, a 120-unit affordable housing project, expected to cost $29 million, just received $16 million in highly competitive tax credits awarded by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency board. It's one of two affordable housing projects out of six total applicants in the Lehigh Valley to receive the credits. -
Brian Myszkowski/LehighValleyNews.comMartin Guitar welcomed guests from across the music industry to talk about protecting the environment at its first Sustainability Summit on Thursday.
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A Wawa proposed for MacArthur Road and Mickley Road received conditional approval from the Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners on Monday night. -
After two heart attacks, Wicked Sweet bakery owner Jessica Pelletier is speaking out to urge her fellow small business owners and others “to make sure that your days are actual days off. To be resting, to be refilling your cup, to be focusing on yourself."
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Forty-five lawmakers have co-sponsored a bill that would protect workers who make prefabricated structures used in government contracts in better-paying communities.
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PennDOT officials have gone back and forth with the National Park Service as it seeks a special permit to begin repairs to Route 611 along the Monroe County-Northampton County border. A rockslide shut a 3-mile stretch in December 2022.
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Allentown businesses and high school students were honored at the Allentown Chamber of Commerce annual awards reception at the Renaissance Allentown Hotel on Thursday.
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The bank is working to open a second Lehigh Valley location by the end of the year in Bethlehem's Westgate Mall.
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Allentown housing project another sign of Lehigh Valley's ‘remarkable transformation’: Biden adviserSenior presidential adviser Tom Perez visited an affordable housing project in Allentown on Wednesday before meeting with leaders of the city's Puerto Rican community downtown.
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A new set of retail buildings near Hamilton Crossings got zoning approval from Lower Macungie
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True Motion — a German-engineered running shoe — is available for the first time in the United States through an Allentown-area startup, with Keystone Running Store as the first official retailer.
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Aldi moved to a new location from its former space on Easton Avenue in Bethlehem Township. It's now targeted for a collision repair shop, and some officials raised concerns about servicing electric vehicles there.
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Hundreds of employees participated in the United Way $100k challenge, which awarded grants to 20 nonprofits at a celebration at Crayola's headquarters on Monday.
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Easton has confirmed their agreement with Comcast, which will eventually lead to a third option for internet and cable access for residents of the city.
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Easton City Council members Frank Pintabone and Crystal Rose will host a community Q&A session with the developers behind the controversial new Easton Commerce Park warehouse project on Thursday, Dec. 19.
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The practice started in 1992 when a successful wreath salesman found himself with a surplus of the fresh greens. Then he remembered how he felt when he first laid eyes on Arlington National Cemetery.
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Plans by Pediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley to construct a 1,200-square-foot addition to its existing administrative offices at 4501 Crackersport Road were approved by the South Whitehall Township Planning Commission on Thursday night.
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Easton's 2025 budget was approved, amounting to just under $71 million with no property tax increase, during the city's Dec. 11, 2024 council meeting.
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At Manufacturers Resource Center on Wednesday, area manufacturing volunteers assembled 40 youth bicycles to be distributed to children through the Community Bike Works program.
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Officials say enforcers will work under a limited scope and focus on “public safety” violations, including double-parking and blocking a street or fire hydrant.
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The church proposed a simple change to property lines that could have larger ramifications.
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More than $1 billion in development in downtown Allentown has “created … an empty vessel” that needs an organization to help fill it with the right businesses, a consultant said Tuesday.
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Internet and cable television provider Comcast may soon ink a 10-year agreement with Easton that would see a $15 million infrastructure investment by the company, along with potential competitive rates for customers.
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City Center is planning to overhaul the former Allentown State Hospital property with hundreds of new homes, offices, a school and more.
