{"id":262429,"date":"2026-08-10T05:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262429\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:12:39","slug":"seven-story-apartment-project-nears-approval-in-allentown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262429\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-story apartment project nears approval in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Plans for a seven-story, 44-apartment building on Walnut Street received preliminary final approval from the city planning commission Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Known as The Quarter, the project by applicant Sean Billings, of Acela Architects + Engineers, of Allentown, consists of a subdivision of two lots.<\/p>\n<p>An existing office building at 411 W. Walnut St. will remain, with the apartment building to be constructed at 405 W. Walnut at Walnut and South Fourth streets.<\/p>\n<p>The first two stories of the apartment building will include a lobby, interior parking garage and 30 parking spaces, one entrance from South Fourth Street and one from South College Street.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Planning Commission documents<\/p>\n<p>The first two stories of the apartment building will include a lobby, interior parking garage and 30 parking spaces, one entrance from South Fourth Street and one from South College Street.<\/p>\n<p>One- and two-bedroom apartments will be offered. Monthly rent has not yet been established, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A rooftop lounge with green elements incorporated also are noted in the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Additional plans and information are needed before final approval, the planning commission said.<\/p>\n<p>They include floor plans, a lighting plan, analysis of any steep slope disturbance and additional landscaping for a multi-family dwelling.<\/p>\n<p>The planning commission also advised providing electric charging spaces to support tenants who have electric and\/op plug-in hybrid vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The planners also urged the applicant to resolve the potential hazard of delivery vehicles double-parking along Walnut Street.<\/p>\n<p>The project falls within the Traditional Neighborhood Development Overlay District, or TNDO, and in the B-2, Central Business District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Plans for a seven-story, 44-apartment building on Walnut Street received preliminary final approval from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-262429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262429","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=262429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}