Showcasing the changing face of Allentown, PA due to rapid gentrification and urban redevelopment. To date more than 1 billion dollars of development has occurred in the area with more work scheduled to begin at the waterfront shortly.
Promotional video by CCLV
Pre sequence: beginning transmission.
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Downtown
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In progress: return to grandeur.
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Lonely hallways in need of repair
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Crosswalk - the contrast of old and new marches on. Things aren't always black and white.
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Americus- The former americus hotel is seeking to be reborn. Will it succeed? Only time will tell.
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Facade: the gritty art deco exterior of the americus.
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Side by side: old vs new
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The grand ballroom of the former Americus
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Hamilton main street district
Sequence 1
Displacement 1-A - without limits
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Unfit for Human Habitation - many homes in the area have been swallowed up by the emerging development and wage gap.
Unfit for Human Habitation - many homes in the area have been swallowed up by the emerging development and wage gap.
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City Center - Development in progress
City Center - Development in progress
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Industrial curtain, the former lehigh structural steel to be razed within weeks. #displacementLV
Industrial curtain, the former lehigh structural steel to be razed within weeks. #displacementLV
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Skyward- Office space
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Vacancy- Soon to be demolished.
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The mile-long, $36 million American Parkway project was first conceived in the 1980s. It serves as a link between route 22 and the waterfront development project.
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Parkway crossings
Displacement 2-C: Grit
Hamilton in flux
Displacement 2-D: Urban Core
Over the next five years, City Center LV will invest a total of $500 million in downtown Allentown. Mainly due to the development of the neighborhood improvement zone which uses tax postponements to spur gentrification.
Displacement 2-E : Respite
A local homeless shelter on the main throughway into the city
Displacement 2-F: Development
The 80 million dollar Two city center is home to National Penn Bank's HQ
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Allentowns median income from 2009 to 2013 averaged $35,560.
Displacement 3-B: downtown
Displacement 3-C Office space. Prime real estate in city center.
Displacement 3-D. Monument:
The Lehigh County Soldiers and Sailors Monument was built in 1899 to commemorate war heroes of the civil war.
Displacement 3-E. Profile
Displacement 3-F: Cosmopolitan
Displacement 3-G: Art deco
The ppl tower is a 24-story skyscraper. It is the tallest building in the city, and the second tallest in the Lehigh Valley after Bethlehem's Martin Tower. It was built in 1926 by Harvey Wiley Corbett, who was part of the design team for Rockefeller Center and the metlife building.
The ppl tower is a 24-story skyscraper. It is the tallest building in the city, and the second tallest in the Lehigh Valley after Bethlehem's Martin Tower. It was built in 1926 by Harvey Wiley Corbett, who was part of the design team for Rockefeller Center and the metlife building.
Displacement 3-H: 9th and Hamilton
Displacement 4-A: Complex.
The Neuweiler brewery was zoned as part of the Waterfront Redevelopment district of the NIZ in Allentown. Ruckus marketing (BHDG) has plans to redevelop the entire property back into a brewery. The plans call for a $30 million renovation. So far Ruckus has struggled to come up with the first few million to begin work on the site. It sits waiting patiently until then.
The Neuweiler brewery was zoned as part of the Waterfront Redevelopment district of the NIZ in Allentown. Ruckus marketing (BHDG) has plans to redevelop the entire property back into a brewery. The plans call for a $30 million renovation. So far Ruckus has struggled to come up with the first few million to begin work on the site. It sits waiting patiently until then.
Displacement 4-B: Barbed. Development marches forward.
