Jason Addy
Allentown Area reporterI cover Allentown and have worked for news outlets in Pennsylvania, Chicago and Minneapolis since graduating from Penn State. It’s great to be much closer to home — I was born and raised in Lehighton — and I’m excited to help share Allentown’s stories. If you've got an idea, I want to hear it. You can reach me any time at jasona@lehighvalleynews.com.
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City Center hopes to start demolition in August and finish the $33 million Class A office building by January 2027. -
The 24-year-old woman “exited the vehicle while it was moving after an altercation with the driver,” according to the Lehigh County coroner.
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The initiative to overhaul Allentown's zoning ordinance and map has been in the public-review phase for more than a year.
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Allentown's Redevelopment Authority is applying for up to $2.5 million that could be used to rehab 10 single-family homes for low-income residents.
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June was a one-month grace period for Allentown residents to learn the new yard-waste-collection routine, with citations to be written starting July 1.
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In the past four years, Lehigh and Northampton counties each saw a roughly 3% population increase, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.
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Jorge Gonzalez, 40, is accused of killing 85-year-old Elian Makdsi in October 2023 as he was in the intersection at North Jerome Street and Union Boulevard.
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The plan is meant to coordinate and guide the development of Allentown's parks over the next 15 years.
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The city of Allentown is set to get $1.9 million, while dozens of nonprofits — including food banks — and other groups will split $3.8 million from the trust's annual disbursement.
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Allentown's Christopher Roldan-Solis, 14, died Friday morning from complications of drowning, according to the Lehigh County coroner.
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Christopher Kiskeravage was “not only a visionary, a leader and a passionate educator, but someone whose values, actions and spirit helped shape the very fabric of this place,” according to the man who now leads training for firefighters across the region.
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Councilwoman Ce-Ce Gerlach called the resolution a “moral statement” in support of a targeted and vulnerable community.
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Building an elevated stadium would allow the school to maintain all but about two dozen parking spaces under the new complex.
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Allentown police said the driver stayed at the scene of the crash and was cooperating with the investigation.
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Allentown planning officials granted a one-year extension to Cortex Residential as it awaits state funding for its project.
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Nat Hyman's lawsuit is the first legal challenge to Mayor Matt Tuerk’s new directive to clean up rather than clear out homeless encampments in Allentown.
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The fatal crash is the first involving a pedestrian in Allentown this year.
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Bethlehem’s Pembroke Choice project is giving residents “the opportunity to plan what the next generation of their neighborhood looks like,” Mayor J. William Reynolds said Saturday.
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The Downtown Allentown Market "did not meet our long-term expectations," a City Center executive said.
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City officials were ready in February to award a contract for a tree inventory in Allentown, but uncertainties caused by an order from President Donald Trump's administration forced them to pause that plan.
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More than 8,600 crashes were reported on Allentown roads from 2019 to 2023, including almost 300 classified as "high injury" and dozens involving pedestrians, city statistics show. One of the ideas for improvements is to build roundabouts at problem intersections.
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More than a dozen new apartments could be built in Allentown, though six more were rejected Monday night.
