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Public sounds off on Costco plan
Don't apply for that Costco membership just yet. The fate of a planned $140 million Costco-anchored shopping center in Lower Macungie remains up in the air. Lehigh County commissioners late Wednesday again delayed voting on a plan to use tax dollars...
Tags: Voting, Realty, Local Government, Groceries, Elections
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Levees, removable walls in plan to protect NYC
NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing removable flood walls for much of lower Manhattan, a permanent 15-to-20-foot levee in part of Staten Island and a system of gates and levees at a Brooklyn creek as part of a nearly $20 billion...
Tags: Battery Park City, New York City, Manhattan (New York City), Hurricane Sandy (2012), Environmental Issues
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Giant Foods: Tax break for Costco unfair
The debate over proposed tax financing for a shopping center that would give the Lehigh Valley its first Costco is picking up steam days before Lehigh County commissioners are expected to decide the fate of the proposal. The president of Giant Food...
Tags: Giant Food, LLC, Herring, Finance, Elections, Economy, Business and Finance
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Musicals with a mission
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Music fills the air most evenings at Firehouse Youth Ministries as high schoolers belt out songs from the Dr. Seuss-based “Seussical.” Performing the musical is part of the mission work of the ministry, aptly named the Musical...Tags: Theater, Music, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Entertainment, Hurricanes
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Can Route 222 Bypass handle Costco-anchored shopping center?
When the 6.2-mile stretch of the Route 222 Bypass in western Lehigh County opened to motorists in 2007, it was billed as both a cure for chronic rush-hour congestion on Hamilton Boulevard in one of the fastest growing areas of the state and a conduit to...
Tags: Promenade Shops, Transportation, Travel, Macungie, Politics
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Planners' Costco plan opposition doesn't deter Lower Macungie officials
Lower Macungie officials say the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission's opposition to a proposed Costco-anchored shopping center in the township won't affect their support of tax increment financing for the $140 million project. What's not clear yet is...Tags: Politics, Realty, Groceries, Local Government, Target
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Developer: Whole Foods would join Costco in Lower Macungie
Whole Foods Market has agreed to join Costco and Target as an anchor at the proposed $140 million Hamilton Crossings shopping center in Lower Macungie Township. Jeremy Fogel of the Goldenberg Group of Montgomery County, one of two developers planning...
Tags: Promenade Shops, Whole Foods Market, Groceries, Target, Services and Shopping
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Lower Macungie schedules hearing on Costco shopping center financing
Lower Macungie Township commissioners have scheduled a June 20 hearing to consider a tax increment financing proposal for a Costco-anchored Hamilton Crossings shopping center. The hearing, which is being held to allow public comment on the proposal,...
Tags: Finance, Groceries, Target, Property, Services and Shopping
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Cicadas slowly making a return
Local insect lovers have been waiting patiently for a crop of 17-year cicadas to emerge in the Lehigh Valley region, but so far the little red-eyed critters have stayed put beneath the soil. With the notable exception of Roger Danielson's neighborhood...
Tags: Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Dauphin County, Allentown, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Carbon County
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Lehigh County commissioners put off vote on Costco tax financing plan
Lehigh County commissioners on Wednesday postponed a vote on whether to allow the developers of a proposed Costco-anchored shopping center in Lower Macungie to use tax dollars to help finance the project. Commissioners are concerned about traffic impact...
Tags: Finance, Realty, Groceries, Target, Property
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Gerald Eugene Ingram Sr., 89
Gerald Eugene Ingram Sr. passed to his heavenly home May 17, 2013, at the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Gerald, also known as Roney, was born in Dargan, Md., on July 25, 1923, to the late Dola Ingram. He lived in Martinsburg for most of...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Disabled American Veterans, General Motors Corp., Italy
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Superstorm Sandy aid center on Staten Island fights order to leave
NEW YORK — It has been six months since Donna Graziano packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman effort in a...
Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, New York City, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Rentals, Brooklyn (New York City)
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