All Posts Tagged With: "lehigh valley pa"

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Easton revitalization project will have ecological angle

On Wednesday 7/9/08, Easton city officials announced that $730,000 grant from Wachovia Regional Foundation that will help re-create Easton’s West Ward with environmental considerations. Turning trash-strewn lots and local dumping sites into community gardens, creating an access park to the Lehigh River and launching of an education program, Global Kids, are all included in the [...]

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Northampton County eyes foreclosure moratorium

Northampton County is researching whether it has the legal authority to temporarily suspend sheriff sales to try to help residents whose homes are in foreclosure. County Council on Thursday asked County Executive John Stoffa to study the issue and report back, but the panel tabled a resolution that called for a 90-day moratorium on the [...]

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Downspout Ordinance enforced in Bethlehem

Bethlehem officials will be sending letters next week that tell residents to disconnect any underground spouts and direct the storm water onto their lawns. The spouts likely hook into the underground sewer pipes, which are being filled with storm water that cascades into them during heavy rains. The water is backing up the city’s feeder [...]

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Catasauqua OKs plan to revitalize

Catasauqua Borough Council has approved a plan to revitalize the downtown. The plan recommends making extensive aesthetic improvements, creating a civic plaza and changing a major street from one-way to two-way. The plan recommends about $1.3 million of streetscape improvements for the downtown commercial core, ”the vicinity of Front, Pine, Bridge and Church streets.”
 
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Emmaus cements second sidewalk ordinance

More than 100 residents could be forced to shell out thousands to install sidewalks under an ordinance approved Monday (7/7/08) by Emmaus Borough Council. The ordinance affects about 105 residences along Dalton Street, State Avenue and Keystone Avenue who will be told to install sidewalks by Nov. 1, 2010, unless granted an exemption. The sidewalks [...]

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Lehigh Valley Home Sales June 2008

Comparison of Activity from June 2007 to June 2008:

Number of Sales - During June 2008, 550 sales were reported, down approximately 29.3% from June 2007 at 778.

Average Sales Price - The average sales price for June 2008 was recorded at $234,000, down approximately 0.85% from June 2007
when the average sales price of the month was [...]

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Bethlehem planners OK supermarket

The Bethlehem Planning Commission has approved plans for a supermarket on Eighth Avenue and a software development manufacturing plant on former Bethlehem Steel land.    PriceRite supermarket will be the last piece of redevelopment for the old Durkee spice plant near the Eighth Avenue interchange of Route 378. The 35,000-square-foot chain grocery could open as soon [...]

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Easton Terrace plan gets OK

Easton’s Planning Commission gave preliminary approval during a special meeting Wednesday night for the Easton Housing authority’s estimated $73 million project.  The authority will raze 250 apartments and build 144 units — single family homes, townhouses, twins, duplexes and cottages for senior citizens. Forty-eight of the new units are designated for sale and the rest [...]

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Wal-Mart complex on 309 OK’d

A plan for a Wal-Mart and four other stores in Schnecksville was approved Wednesday by North Whitehall township supervisors on the condition the developer first check for chemical contamination on the site.  Supervisors voted unanimously affirming that Wal-Mart Stores East, owner of the 40-acre site along Route 309, could use the land for a planned [...]

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Can I Get A Good Deal in The Lehigh Valley?

Prices are definitely coming down, that’s a good thing. But, its not a fire sale. Two and three years ago when the market was hot, homes were over priced and selling for more than they were worth in some cases. What’s happening now is that home prices are coming back into line of where they [...]

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