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 20, 2015
Officials in Allentown say a recent FBI raid of Allentown City Hall should not slow the dramatic economic development that is occurring in its downtown. But it could be a different scenario in Reading, where an FBI raid of City Hall could hurt a nascent recovery in a...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Jul 17, 2015
The Whole Foods Market in the new Hamilton Crossings shopping center will include a restaurant serving alcoholic beverages. It is part of growing trend of grocery chains including restaurants that sell alcohol to their customers. On Thursday night, Lower Macungie...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Jul 15, 2015
The Butz Corporate Center is growing again. Alvin H. Butz Inc. broke ground Tuesday on its second expansion at the downtown Allentown office complex at Ninth and Hamilton streets in the city – a 60,000-square-foot project. Butz has been headquartered there since 2006,...
