[CPEO-BIF] "Developers pitch apartment complex in south Allentown [Pennsylvania] at former iron foundry and quarry site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Developers pitch apartment complex in south Allentown at former iron foundry and quarry site

By CHARLES MALINCHAK
ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL (PA)
FEBRUARY 16, 2021 

What was once the site of a 19th century Allentown iron foundry and quarry is set to be transformed into a 190-unit apartment complex, according to testimony before the city’s Zoning Hearing Board on Monday night.

The estimated $45 million project is on a 17-acre parcel on the city’s South Side and would consist of six, three-story apartment buildings with units ranging from one to three bedrooms, said Geoff Long, a representative of the project’s developer, Ingerman of Collingswood, New Jersey.

The developer went before the board Monday night seeking a variance to level some of the steep slopes on the property with grades that otherwise would not have been allowed to be altered under city zoning ordinances.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-nws-allentown-zoning-apartment-complex-20210216-vgcyymfjv5enpcze4fj3ubqxde-story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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