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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.
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.
13–17 N. 7th Street Map location: Historic bank building built in 1905, it is a large eight-story, steel frame and masonry-clad building in the Beaux-Arts style. The bank was first chartered in 1855 by the Commonwealth as the Allentown Bank with a capitalization of $100,000.
The hotel became a landmark in Allentown, hosting businessmen, wealthy travelers, political figures and other important guests to the city. Located in the heart of the Central Business district, it was a stop on the new electric street railway when it opened in 1892, bringing visitors to the city directly from the Lehigh Valley Railroad Station ...
In 2011, in preparation for construction of the PPL Center, a 10,000-seat capacity indoor sports and entertainment arena in Center City Allentown, demolition began on the north side of Hamilton Street between 7th and 8th streets but exempted two buildings, The Farr Building and Dime Savings and Trust Company, which remained. It was noted at the ...
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area ...
Albertus L. Meyers Bridge (in foreground) and the skyline of Center City Allentown, including the PPL Building (in background), in May 2007 Entrance to the PPL Center (on left) at 701 Hamilton Street in Center City Allentown in October 2018 The 24-story PPL Building, Center City Allentown's tallest building, at 2 North 9th Street in January 2007 Allentown Art Museum on North 5th Street in ...
Drawing on the name of a bank from the 1840s, the Dime Savings and Trust Company was founded in 1921 as the fifth-largest bank in Allentown.Dime Savings building was one of three principal buildings in Allentown's central business district; the other two were Americus Hotel and the PPL Building, all which were all built in the same two-year span and reflected the Art Deco design trends then ...