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If you get a “Big Mac attack” while pumping gas or grabbing coffee at the Wawa that will be opening at Rt. 309 and Passer Road, you won’t have to travel far in order to satisfy it.
Nearly a year after a court of common pleas overturned a rare mayoral veto of a rezoning ordinance, Hellertown officials and property owners are still battling over the zoning status of a portion of a property on Easton Road.
Upper Saucon Township Community Park on Preston Lane will be the home of a brand new branch of the YMCA; a facility that is expected to cost up to $15 million to build and which backers believe will ultimately help improve the health and well-being of the communities it serves.
Plans for an expansion of Saucon Valley Manor are on hold after members of the Hellertown Planning Commission voted against supporting variances requested for the project by local developer Abe Atiyeh.
A former Jewish Community Center (JCC) of the Lehigh Valley camp in Upper Saucon Township that was once the site of a proposed Tree Course Adventures rope park is now instead set to become a winery, following plan approval by township supervisors last month. The winery at 5831 Vera Cruz Road will be called Stone Cellar Farm & Vineyard.
A new community is taking shape in Upper Saucon Township that is very different from anything the Saucon Valley has seen before. A visit to the distinctive model home at The Cottages at Old Saucon–now open for visits by prospective buyers–is evidence of that.
Residents of the Stonewood Lane townhouse development off Easton Road in Hellertown borough are circulating a video recorded by a Ring doorbell out of concern for the suspicious activity it appears to show.
A revised land development proposal to build a single-family home on a subdivided lot at 85 Division Street near the center of the borough was advanced at the Aug. 11 Hellertown Planning Commission meeting, but not without some dissention.
Allentown-based Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network (GSRN) has big plans for Center Valley. The network announced Thursday that it plans to build a state-of-the-art rehabilitation hospital on land along Center Valley Parkway in Upper Saucon Township.
Following a months-long delay, Bethlehem City Council will consider a rezoning request for a proposed senior-living development along Creek Road in September. The Bethlehem Planning Commission voted against the developer’s request to rezone the land at their March 12 meeting.