{"id":38171,"date":"2025-11-19T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38171\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:52:10","slug":"former-crowne-plaza-removed-from-blighted-property-list-as-renovations-continue-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38171\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Crowne Plaza removed from blighted property list as renovations continue | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WYOMISSING, Pa. &#8211; The former Crowne Plaza Hotel in Wyomissing had plans back in September to begin upgrades under a new identity: the Reading Vitality Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>However, The Berks County Blighted Property Review Committee delayed the project, giving the property owner more time to show progress.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations were already underway, and more permits were in the process of being filed.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, borough officials remained cautiously optimistic and wanted to see visible construction before declaring a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>The committee officially approved a motion to remove the property from the blighted property list on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Renovations have been slow, but the owners who are turning it into the Reading Vitality Hotel know they have more work to do and are committed to finishing it.<\/p>\n<p>The owners will apply for permits to replace the HVAC system and other indoor work. They also plan on repairing cracks in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the renovations, the owners hired security to patrol the property at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. &#8211; The former Crowne Plaza Hotel in Wyomissing had plans back in September to begin upgrades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23344,53,23342,845,128,130,129,23343,8302,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-38171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-blighted-property-review-committee","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-crowne-plaza","11":"tag-permits","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-reading-vitality-hotel","16":"tag-renovations","17":"tag-wyomissing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171","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=38171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}