The former home of Allentown industrialist Gen. Harry C. Trexler has a new owner.<\/p>\n
According to Lehigh County property records, the building at 926-928 Hamilton St. in downtown Allentown was sold to a Florida limited liability company for $954,000 in October.<\/p>\n
The fate of the building has been up in the air for a few years since a project to combine it with 930 Hamilton and convert them into a five-story building fell through. The 2023 plans from Blackstone Structures<\/a> included retail in both the basement and first floor, with 75 one-bedroom and studio apartments on the upper floors.<\/p>\n Realtor Loren Keim, who sold the property, said Blackstone wasn\u2019t able to follow through with the project after one of the partners died before settlement.<\/p>\n The new owner is HCP 926 W Hamilton St LLC, which is based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The three-story building is 12,369 square feet and was being touted in real estate ads as a possible site for either a retail business or apartment building.<\/p>\n It is in the city\u2019s Neighborhood Improvement Zone, Allentown\u2019s unique taxing district that allows developers to redirect most state and local taxes toward development.<\/p>\n Trexler lived at the house, which was first built as a single family house in the mid-19th century, between 1885 and 1914. Most recently, Kruper Bros. operated an appliance store at 926 Hamilton from 1963 until second-generation owner Sandra Kruper retired in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keim said the same buyer bought 808 Hamilton this year for $630,000.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, 930 Hamilton was sold separately to Joseph Colasuonno. It was previously the location for Applied Separations over the last 30 years and is scheduled to become the ArtsQuest Artist Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former home of Allentown industrialist Gen. Harry C. Trexler has a new owner. According to Lehigh County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,433,157,28,1081,432],"class_list":["post-322367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-real-estate","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322367","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=322367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}