{"id":243479,"date":"2026-07-14T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243479\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:36:10","slug":"developers-explore-potential-of-former-bank-building-in-downtown-reading-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243479\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers explore potential of former bank building in downtown Reading | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8212; Developers are dreaming big as they tour a former bank building in downtown Reading that&#8217;s set to be revamped.<\/p>\n<p>The Farmers Bank building is part of a 52-million dollar project in the 400 block of Penn Street.<\/p>\n<p>Plans call for 150 apartments and condos and 53,000 square feet of retail space.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Building Alliance hosted the tour.<\/p>\n<p>The developers learned about energy efficiency and long-term resiliency and they had the chance to speak with preservationists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8212; Developers are dreaming big as they tour a former bank building in downtown Reading that&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-243479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479","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=243479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}