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Park and Shop has its roots in the “Park & Shop” concept, [1] developed in Allentown as a way to bring people into the Central Business and Shopping District. In 1947, Donald Miller, [2] Allentown businessman and former owner of The Morning Call newspaper worked with other businessmen to create a way to bring crowds back to downtown Allentown after the war.
7th Street (North 7th Street from the city line to the north through Linden Street to the south) 7th Street is a retail and residential corridor just north of Center City Allentown . It is Allentown 's fastest growing commercial corridor and serves as the primary gateway to Allentown with new streetlights, planters, and waste receptacles.
Defunct department stores based in Pennsylvania (3 C, 10 P) H. ... Allentown Portland Cement Company; ... (video game developer)
The largest shopping mall in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region, the Lehigh Valley Mall is located north of Allentown, on MacArthur Road between U.S. Route 22 and Grape Street. [3] The Lehigh Valley Mall is anchored by Boscov's (formerly Wanamaker's, Hecht's and Strawbridge's), JCPenney, and Macy's (formerly Bamberger's).
Allentown, the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, third-largest city in Pennsylvania, and county seat of Lehigh County Trout Hall, built in 1770 by James Allen, son of Allentown founder William Allen, is one of the oldest houses in Allentown; from 1867 to 1905, it served as the home of Muhlenberg College The 24-story PPL Building in Center City Allentown, the city's tallest building PPL Center ...
While Camden was closer, Allentown had a more elaborate proposal which helped secure Allentown's bid for the team. [citation needed] Plans to build the PPL Center at the corner of 7th and Hamilton streets in Center City Allentown were announced in late 2009. For much of 2009 and 2010, the focus of the project was on securing funding.
Prior to its construction, the only bridges connecting Center City Allentown and South Allentown were Lehigh Street and the 8th Street bridges, although the single-lane 19th century stone arch Schreibers Bridge (1828, rehabilitated in 1920) provided west end access to southwest Allentown via Lehigh Parkway East. Original bridges were metal ...
Allen House hotel in 1870 Postcard showing the lobby of the Hotel Allen, Allentown, Pennsylvania about 1912 Theodore Roosevelt speaking from the balcony of Hotel Allen, 1914. The northeast corner of Center Square (Seventh and Hamilton Streets) in Allentown was the site of several inns and hotels since its founding in 1762.