{"id":111410,"date":"2026-02-11T20:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:55:32","slug":"allentown-apartment-complex-receives-another-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/111410\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown apartment complex receives another extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

A proposed apartment complex on the site of a former amusement park in east Allentown received another extension request from the city\u2019s planning commission Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Central Park Apartments proposed at 605 N. Wahneta St. consist of 12 buildings and 126 apartments. The 12-acre wooded area is next to the site of the former Allentown State Hospital, which is undergoing its own redevelopment.<\/p>\n

The massive Northridge project<\/a>, being developed by City Center Group, is planned to be a mixed-use development on the 195-acre hospital site that includes more than 600 town homes, along with medical buildings, retail businesses, a school, walking and biking trails, and recreation space.<\/p>\n

Developer Joe Colasuonno asked for a one-year extension in order to coordinate street realignments with Northridge.<\/p>\n

The Central Park Apartments project was approved in June 2021<\/a>, with a two-year extension granted in February 2024.<\/p>\n

The property was once the site of Central Park, an amusement park established by the Allentown & Bethlehem Rapid Traction Co. in the late 19th century to increase trolley ridership.<\/p>\n

The apartment complex project has been on the drawing board for nearly 20 years. It was originally proposed for 212 units in three buildings in 2006.<\/p>\n

Eventually whittled to 179 units in two three-story buildings, that plan received conditional approval from the city in 2007 but stalled the following year over sewage capacity concerns and economic viability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposed apartment complex on the site of a former amusement park in east Allentown received another extension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-111410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111410","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=111410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}