by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Oct 21, 2015
After hearing fears about the threat to existing businesses, Bethlehem City Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to new redevelopment guidelines for the 53-acreMartin Tower in West Bethlehem. The proposal eliminates a 2006 requirement that the landmark...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Aug 26, 2015
Calling the Lehigh Valley an “extraordinary” soccer community, the head of the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday announced the team will have a professional minor league team based at Lehigh University beginning in March. The team, yet-to-be-named, will be in the...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Aug 17, 2015
The mayors of Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and Phillipsburg, N.J., have been meeting the past couple of months to see how they can get rolling again talks to restore passenger rail service to the Lehigh Valley. The mayors have met with each other,...
by Tom.Skeans@svn.com | Aug 4, 2015
BB&T Corp. of Winston-Salem, N.C., completed its acquisition of Lititz-based Susquehanna Bancshares Inc. The acquisition was effective Aug. 1. Susquehanna, which has about a dozen branches in the Greater Lehigh Valley, is now operating as a division of Branch...
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...
