{"id":277744,"date":"2026-09-03T01:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277744\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:04:10","slug":"allentown-art-museum-approved-for-inclusion-in-neighborhood-improvement-zone-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277744\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Art Museum approved for inclusion in Neighborhood Improvement Zone | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The future Allentown Art Museum at 10th and Hamilton will be part of the Neighborhood Improvement Zone, also known as the NIZ.<\/p>\n<p>ANIZDA, the body that governs Allentown&#8217;s special taxing district, approved the art museum&#8217;s inclusion earlier Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Museum officials say the approval will allow the project to tap up to 9 million in state funds to help pay for a portion of the $50-55 million project.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Art Museum President and CEO Max Weintraub released a statement following the ANIZDA meeting:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important milestone in our efforts to build a new, purpose-built facility for the Museum and the diverse communities we serve. Founded more than 90 years ago, the Museum has long served as a cultural, civic, and economic anchor for Allentown and the Lehigh Valley\u2014and this new facility will ensure that legacy continues for generations to come. I am grateful to Steve Bamford and the entire ANIZDA board for their support and confidence in our project,&#8221; said Weintraub.<\/p>\n<p>Weintraub says the current site of the Allentown Art Museum will be sold and that the museum is fielding preliminary interest.<\/p>\n<p>The site for the new Art Museum is the former Allentown police substation.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition on the site is scheduled to begin in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The future Allentown Art Museum at 10th and Hamilton will be part of the Neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,43471],"class_list":["post-277744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-local_government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277744","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=277744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}