EASTON, Pa.- Demolition will begin soon on the parking deck at the Northampton County Government Center, and a new garage will rise in its place.<\/p>\n
The deck at 669 Washington Street in Easton is now closed to the public and county employees. It’s scheduled for demolition the week of Oct. 26.<\/p>\n
The new, three-story garage will have 305 spaces, seven more than the current deck, which was built in 1975.<\/p>\n
A $35 million bond for the project was approved in February of last year. At the time, it was estimated that the deck would cost about $22 million. The rest of the money was to be used for other capital projects.<\/p>\n
The bond was a compromise to a previous $63.5 million proposal that also included a new office building for county employees. County Council rejected that ordinance in November of 2024.<\/p>\n
The new garage is scheduled to be ready for use in March 2028.<\/p>\n
Northampton County has leased several other parking lots in the Easton area that will be used by county employees during construction, with shuttles bringing them to the government center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa.- Demolition will begin soon on the parking deck at the Northampton County Government Center, and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,53,2181,434],"class_list":["post-308930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-construction","tag-easton","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308930","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=308930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}