{"id":263397,"date":"2026-08-11T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263397\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:18:02","slug":"allentown-planners-table-former-banana-joes-site-project-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263397\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown planners table Former Banana Joe&#8217;s site project | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The Allentown Planning Commission continued preliminary\/final land development approval for a mixed-use property Tuesday afternoon at city hall.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant, Real Star Properties LLC, is proposing a 132-unit apartment building, hotel, event center along with 8,800 square feet of retail space at 300-324 W. Hamilton St., the site of the former Banana Joe&#8217;s nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Christian Brown said the applicant requested the continuance, which was then formally approved by a commission vote through tabling the proposal to a future date.<\/p>\n<p>No discussion occurred Tuesday afternoon involving plan specifics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The Allentown Planning Commission continued preliminary\/final land development approval for a mixed-use property Tuesday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,2983,153,155,154,28,111329],"class_list":["post-263397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-planning-commission","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-real-star-properties-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263397","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=263397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}