{"id":215133,"date":"2026-06-10T01:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:17:12","slug":"applicant-hits-pause-on-data-center-proposal-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215133\/","title":{"rendered":"Applicant hits pause on data center proposal in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Two major projects scheduled for review by the Allentown Planning Commission were postponed Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>One involved a proposed data center at 2401 Emaus Ave. The proposal involves an amended land development application to revise a previously approved plan for a 224,000-square-foot warehouse building into a data center use including a 23,342-square-foot addition for a 247,342-square-foot total. The review was postponed at the applicant&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was provided about the application itself or when it will be heard on Tuesday afternoon. Chairman Christian Brown noted the resubmission would be heard at &#8220;a later date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apartment Building<\/p>\n<p>A second case involving a seven-story, 200-unit mixed-use apartment building was postponed at the applicant&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal includes 18,000 square feet of retail space and associated improvements. No information or future date for review was provided officially at Tuesday afternoon&#8217;s session.<\/p>\n<p>Townhomes<\/p>\n<p>The planning commission granted land development approval for a resubmitted plan involving six townhomes at 401 Harrison St.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, called Southside Homes at Harrison, received various public comment by residents who expressed concerns about the project including flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Two major projects scheduled for review by the Allentown Planning Commission were postponed Tuesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,6152,153,155,154,94249,94251,57344,22638,72095,45451,94250],"class_list":["post-215133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-apartment-building","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-data-center-proposal","tag-flooding-concerns","tag-land-development","tag-planning-commission","tag-postponement","tag-public-comment","tag-townhomes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215133","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=215133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}