Will Oliver
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LehighValleyNews.com
The city Zoning Hearing Board on Wednesday approved two special exceptions and a variance to let the church convert its two rowhomes at 230 and 232 W. Third St.
Donna S. Fisher
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For LehighValleyNews.com
Donna Fisher
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For LehighValleyNews.com
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Locally, housing costs still remain lower than national averages, but data from real estate marketplaces compared with U.S. Census data in Lehigh and Northampton counties show housing affordability still is a struggle. -
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The rebate is meant to help seniors, widows and widowers and residents with disabilities who paid property taxes or rent in 2024.
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Easton was honored in the AARP's 2026 10 Great — and Affordable — Places for Older People to Live list, making it the only place in Pennsylvania to be included in the roundup.
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Applicant Nicholas Youssef envisions an all-new three-story building at 330 East Fourth St., featuring four two-bedroom apartments in the upper floors and about 1,800 square feet of ground-level commercial space.
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Developers behind a 34-unit apartment intended for Easton's North 4th Street tried to challenge an ordinance restricting building heights and sizes at the city's Thursday Zoning Hearing Board meeting.
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Upper Macungie's planning commission voted Wednesday to recommend preliminary approval for a planned 203-home development connecting Schantz Road and Bastian Lane.
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Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's Comprehensive Planning Committee on Tuesday reviewed a proposal for a 2.6 million-square-foot hyperscale data center in Upper Macungie Township, citing a litany of missing information as a concern.
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Easton's Zoning Hearing Board approved a subdivision of the Hooper House property Monday, which will let the Rock Church keep an adjoining parcel that contains the Timothy House.
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For Julius, 32, and others of the encampment, the homeless population is “always in a state of flux,” he said, and there are a variety of reasons any particular person could find themselves in a similar situation.
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Groundbreaking for a 72-unit apartment expansion was held at Fellowship Community senior independent living in Whitehall Township on Friday.
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There's still a ways to go before developers know what will be going inside the historic Wells Fargo bank building at 52 W. Broad St., according to Plamen “Rocco” Ayvazov, head of Monocacy Builders, the property owner.
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The executive order, signed after a brief news conference at Bridgeside Estates, appears to be the first issued by an Allentown mayor in at least a decade.
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Lehigh County's board of commissioners voted narrowly Wednesday to grant a LERTA tax break for a property in Emmaus set to become 144 apartments.
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The new plan for the property calls for a building that's a story shorter but has about 25 more apartments.
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Base Engineering's Drew Nyman, project manager on behalf of the applicant, said the original sketch plan presented last year was “a lot more expansive than what we’re doing now.”
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Displacing 135 residents and shuttering ground-level businesses until further notice, a monstrous fire at Five10 Flats in South Bethlehem has officials left trying to pick up the pieces.
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Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners will consider a request by Fellowship Community retirement community to complete its proposed expansion in three phases instead of one, as was originally proposed. The change is because of lack of funding.
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Fellowship Community, an independent living community in Whitehall Township, announced expansion plans to construct three luxury apartment buildings on the 67-acre campus at Mauch Chunk Road and Schadt Avenue.
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A dilapidated single-family home across from Touchstone Theatre and Parham Park may later become a three-story mixed-use structure.
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Allentown City Council looks poised to move about $2.25 million in unspent federal funding to other accounts.
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Pen Argyl Borough Council provided conditional use approval to a former warehouse a developer intends to turn into an apartment building.
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The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency awarded seven projects in the state with grants from its Community Revitalization Fund Program. Only one project in the Lehigh Valley received money — a remediation project for the Fourth Street Building in Bethlehem.
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Once pitched for 27 units, the newest project documents show 24 apartments to be built on site, with 18 one-bedroom and six two-bedroom units ranging from about 600 to 1,700 square feet.
