{"id":263975,"date":"2026-08-12T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263975\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:54:11","slug":"allentown-planners-table-mixed-use-proposal-for-former-banana-joes-site-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263975\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown planners table mixed-use proposal for former Banana Joe&#8217;s site | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 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, a hotel and an event center, along with 8,800 square feet of retail space, at 300-324 W. Hamilton St. This is the site of the former Banana Joe&#8217;s nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>Planning commission 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. \u2013 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":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,2983,28,111329],"class_list":["post-263975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-planning-commission","tag-pennsylvania","tag-real-star-properties-llc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263975","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=263975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263975\/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=263975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}