{"id":185322,"date":"2026-05-06T13:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185322\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:41:23","slug":"anizda-approves-4-8-million-riverfront-lofts-project-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185322\/","title":{"rendered":"ANIZDA approves $4.8 million Riverfront Lofts project | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 A Jersey City-based real estate development company received the nod Wednesday afternoon from the <a href=\"https:\/\/allentownniz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority<\/a> to transform two long-ago abandoned factory buildings on the west side of Allentown&#8217;s riverfront.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">John Palumbo,\u00a0vice president of development for Manhattan Building Co.,\u00a0said the project&#8217;s first phase will entail revamping the existing low-rise former factory structure at 207 N. Front St., next door to the former site of American Atelier Furniture.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">The $4.8 million &#8220;Riverfront Lofts&#8221; project will result in a mix of residential and business units including 25 apartments on the two upper levels, and offices and commercial units on the ground and other floors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Palumbo noted the venture is a joint one with Urban Residential Properties, whose owner Alex Wright already owns 100 apartments in Allentown and began many years ago with his first redevelopment of a downtown property at Fifth and Gordon streets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Palumbo added Wright and Sanford Weiss, principal of Manhattan Building Co., have been involved in apartment building projects in New Jersey, just outside Manhattan, for decades now.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Palumbo said he and his partners presently have 1,100 units under construction in Jersey City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Following completion of the Riverfront project, Manhattan Building Co. plans to permanently relocate its company headquarters there from Jersey City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">The company also owns property on the site of the former Neuweiler Brewery at 401 N. Front St.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Palumbo said plans for a previously proposed redevelopment of the former Neuweiler bottling building and loading dock are still part of the total venture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-setdir=\"false\">Construction at 207 N. Front St. is expected to begin late this summer after all planning and zoning details are finalized, Palumbo said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 A Jersey City-based real estate development company received the nod Wednesday afternoon from the Allentown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[38497,119,121,51110,120,82781,62358,51107,12091,62357,63280,82780,28,82779],"class_list":["post-185322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-alex-wright","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-neighborhood-improvement-zone-development-authority","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-riverfront-complex","tag-allentown-waterfront","tag-anizda","tag-jersey-city","tag-john-palumbo","tag-manhattan-building-co","tag-neuweiler-brewery","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sanford-weiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185322","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=185322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}