National Penn Bancshares Incorporated

There is plenty of construction going on in Allentown's Neighborhood Improvement Zone, but Alvin H. Butz Inc. logged a first Monday when CEO Greg Butz cut the symbolic ribbon on the first offices in a new building in the zone to open for business. While...

By late next year, well-heeled new residents of Allentown's suddenly booming downtown will be able to walk out the front door of their luxury apartments, have a glass of wine at a bistro fronting the city's Arts Walk, and stroll across the street to a...

Close to half of the $31.8 million in mostly state tax dollars swept up by Allentown's arena zone last year will go to the private developer erecting an 11-story office building across Seventh Street from the arena. City Center Investment Corp. will get...

At the eye of the storm of construction that dominates downtown Allentown is a company that will never make any list of top employers in the Lehigh Valley. City Center Investment Corp., with just five employees, is one of the smallest new businesses...

National Penn Bancshares' decision to move its headquarters to Allentown was a milestone in the redevelopment of the city's downtown. It gave instant credibility to developer J.B. Reilly's ambitious plan — financed in part by National Penn —...

John J. "Jack" Dau, 85, businessman, sailor, chairman and majority shareholder of Bally Block Company and Michigan Maple Block Company, died on Dec. 28, 2011, after a lengthy fight against emphysema. Born in the old Petoskey Hospital on lower Lake Street...

The Lehigh Valley bank market is a mix of institutions large and small. Big companies that control hundreds of billions in deposits nationwide compete with small community banks that operate exclusively in Lehigh and Northampton counties. Straddling...