{"id":101192,"date":"2026-01-30T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101192\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:53:32","slug":"mixed-use-development-planned-for-downtown-reading-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101192\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-use development planned for downtown Reading, mayor says |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading\u2019s mayor says a plan is in place to fill a void downtown.<\/p>\n<p>During Friday\u2019s State of the City Address, Mayor Eddie Moran said developer Alan Shuman is working on a project to build multi-family housing and stores in the 400 block of Penn Street.<\/p>\n<p>The development will replace the historic buildings that the city tore down last year.<\/p>\n<p>The city brought down two buildings because it said they posted an imminent risk to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>             <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/berks\/reading-area\/reading-architectural-board-wants-answers-about-recent-demolition-of-historic-buildings\/article_ffc4c924-9da1-4a94-a776-996d2e9f3bbc.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Reading architectural board wants answers about recent demolition of historic buildings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>            Reading architectural board wants answers about recent demolition of historic buildings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading\u2019s mayor says a plan is in place to fill a void downtown. During Friday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42546,5446,49299,4691,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-101192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-alan-shuman","9":"tag-mixed-use-development","10":"tag-multi-family-housing","11":"tag-penn-street","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}