“plans for the site are likely to change” (6)

Serious Issues, Wind Creek Casino 1 Minute

(6th in a series of posts on Wind Creek Bethlehem)

Anna Smith is a life-long Southside resident and Director of the Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem, a non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of life in south Bethlehem by fostering economic opportunity, promoting community development, and empowering residents to actively participate in the decision-making process regarding the future of our diverse community

Gadfly:

Feelings on the water park aside, I think having a plan for the Number 2 Machine Shop was seen as important for gaining State and City support for the sale. But as today’s article in The Morning Call mentions, they only have $150 million of the $250 million available to commit to the project. I have a feeling the plans for the site are likely to change before long, now that the sale has been approved. . . . Unless there is someone sitting around with $100 million to invest in partial ownership of an indoor water park . . .

Anna

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Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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2 thoughts on ““plans for the site are likely to change” (6)”

  1. In all these questions about the pros & cons of ‘development’ or being a destination city, is anyone thinking about climate impacts‽ Do community-level plans make it a factor in their thinking?

    Leaks from the next IPCC report suggest that the ‘worst-case’ scenarios were too conservative!

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