{"id":238254,"date":"2026-07-08T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238254\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:32:20","slug":"bethlehem-oks-professional-services-contract-for-emergency-family-shelter-bethlehem-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238254\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem OKs professional services contract for emergency family shelter | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Bethlehem City Council on Tuesday night approved a $210,000 professional services contract with Spillman Farmer to complete the final design and engineering for an 11-unit emergency family shelter.<\/p>\n

The project is planned at a Lehigh Conference of Churches\u2019 property at 232-234 W. Packer Ave. It is part of the city’s \u201cOpening Doors: A Strategic Plan to Address Homelessness\u201d and is funded through federal HOME-ARP Non-Congregate Shelter allocations, including additional funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed contract<\/a>, Spillman Farmer will prepare construction documents, assist with bid preparation and the bidding process, and provide contract administration through the project’s expected completion by March 31, 2027.<\/p>\n

City officials said Spillman Farmer was selected through a competitive request-for-proposals process because it submitted the lowest responsive bid and demonstrated the most relevant experience.<\/p>\n

Last June, the City of Bethlehem was awarded $1.45 million from the state to support the conversion of a South Bethlehem apartment building into the 11-unit non-congregate emergency family shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Bethlehem City Council on Tuesday night approved a $210,000 professional services contract with Spillman Farmer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,164,155,154,45000,45865,27382,102537],"class_list":["post-238254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-city-council","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-emergency-shelter","tag-family-shelter","tag-lehigh-conference-of-churches","tag-spillman-farmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238254","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=238254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}