{"id":215368,"date":"2026-06-10T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:37:29","slug":"letter-reading-leaders-miss-whats-really-wrong-with-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215368\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Reading leaders miss what\u2019s really wrong with downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with Reading\u2019s administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/05\/13\/reading-officials-raise-concerns-over-berks-countys-plan-to-buy-downtown-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which is objecting<\/a> to Berks County buying a vacant building at Sixth and Penn streets? City officials claim they would lose lots of tax money on the deal. I guess they would rather have subsidized housing renters downtown than employees.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of their ideas is to put a nightclub somewhere on Penn Street. If that happens everyone attending there would have to wear clothing with targets on them. Whatever happened to the City Park Bandshell concerts? Another casualty to the fear of coming into town.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Dillon<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is wrong with Reading\u2019s administration, which is objecting to Berks County buying a vacant building at Sixth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-215368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215368","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=215368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}