by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Aug 3, 2015
The first steel column of St. Luke’s University Health Network’s seventh hospital is has been placed. Tuesday, construction workers installed the column on what will be the first newly constructed hospital in Monroe County in 100 years. The steel for the...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Jul 28, 2015
Despite protests from neighbors and the West Park Civic Association, St. Luke’s University Health Network yesterday began demolishing its former Annex Building, also known as the Donecker Mansion at 1801 Hamilton St. – across from its Allentown campus. The...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Jul 13, 2015
The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority earned the final approval required by the Federal Aviation Administration to release airport land for the construction of a FedEx Ground distribution center. The approval allows the airport authority to use federally obligated...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Jul 13, 2015
TechVentures is having growing pains. At 97 percent capacity with 38 businesses, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania is running out of room at the incubator facility, which already previously expanded. So, the economic development agency is...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Jul 6, 2015
The region’s economic growth has presented tremendous opportunities for businesses. That is also true for the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, but planners say that growth also creates challenges when it comes to building and funding road improvements. The...