developer again delays hearing for Bethlehem Drive-In apartments | Regional News from Lehigh Valley

BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. – A hearing on the conditional use of a garden apartment complex project on the site of former Bethlehem Drive-In was again postponed during Monday’s Council of Commissioners meeting evening in the canton of Bethlehem.

An extension until January has been granted for Thirty22 Easton Avenue, which is the 220-unit garden apartment complex offered by David Ronca, partner at Wind-Drift Real Estate Associates of Bethlehem.

Plans for the site at 3022 Easton Ave. include seven buildings with 28 units each with three to four floors, as well as one building with three floors and 24 units; a 4,000 square foot community center; and a swimming pool on site.

In August, Wind-Drift also requested a continuation of the conditional use hearing, which was moved to Monday night’s meeting.

Penn Center 33

After extensive discussion regarding stormwater management plans for Penn Center 33 (formerly Mill Creek Business Park), Commissioners voted 3-1 to amend a resolution granting conditional land use approval by removing the postponement of sidewalks and curbs on Church Road. They then voted 4-0 to approve the resolution as amended.

Plans for the resort, located near Route 33 and the William Penn Highway Park & ​​Ride, include four buildings totaling nearly 500,000 square feet. According to the development brochure, the spaces are ideally suited for research and development, laboratories, showrooms and offices for technology, biotechnology, building materials and trade or light assembly industries .

The fields of RiverHill

Kay Builders, developer of The Fields at RiverHill, has not had a chance to request a waiver of the 120-day settlement period typically required before a road base layer is installed. With only four of the five Commissioners present, they voted 2-2, meaning the motion did not grant the waiver.

The new residential community off Farmersville Road will include 44 single family homes and 36 semi-detached homes.