{"id":56413,"date":"2025-12-09T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:33:24","slug":"allentown-planning-officials-still-awaiting-new-plans-for-downtown-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56413\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown planning officials still awaiting new plans for downtown skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A postage-stamp corner property near Center City will remain an empty lot for at least a little while longer. <\/p>\n<p>Umran Global Investments wants to change Allentown&#8217;s skyline by building a 37-story structure at 90 S. 9th St.<\/p>\n<p>The firm bought the property in 2023 from developer Bruce Loch. His company, Ascot Circle Realty, sought to build a 33-story office tower on the small plot of land. <\/p>\n<p>    Umran Global was scheduled to again present its plans to Allentown Planning Commission on Tuesday as it continues to push for approval. But the company requested a postponement; its proposal is expected to be weighed at a planning commission meeting soon. <\/p>\n<p>Allentown Planning Commission<\/p>\n<p>Allentown City Planning Commission first approved Loch&#8217;s plans in 2015. <\/p>\n<p>Planning officials granted the developer various extensions before it was acquired by Umran Global.<\/p>\n<p>They denied the new owner&#8217;s request for an extension in January 2024 after deeming its proposal \u201csubstantially different\u201d than Loch\u2019s project.<\/p>\n<p>Umran Global was scheduled to again present its plans to Allentown Planning Commission on Tuesday as it continues to push for approval. <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Peregrine Tower Proposed Location\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/static.lehigh-v.lehigh-valley.production.k1.m1.brightspot.cloud\/dims4\/default\/0f1f6e9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1428x803+0+0\/resize\/880x495!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flehigh-valley-brightspot.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2F97%2Fdd%2Fb2510a3f4c1d9a2fd029d48c934d%2Fscreenshot-2024-06-25-144339.png\" loading=\"lazy\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSI0OTVweCIgd2lkdGg9Ijg4MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Public Document<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> LehighValleyNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The proposed location for Peregrine Tower<\/p>\n<p>Those plans call for 206 residential units, almost 10,000 square feet of office space and some retail areas throughout the skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>But the company requested a postponement Tuesday; its proposal is expected to be weighed at a planning commission meeting soon. <\/p>\n<p>At 420 feet, the building \u2014 to be known as the Peregrine Tower \u2014 would be the tallest in the state outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal lists retail space on the first and fourth floors, office space on the second, third and fourth floors, and residential space from floors six and up. <\/p>\n<p>And the building could include a restaurant on the top floor, according to the most recent proposal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A postage-stamp corner property near Center City will remain an empty lot for at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,31185,121,120,31186,2983,31187,31188,31189,31190],"class_list":{"0":"post-56413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-90-s-9th-st","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-pencil-tower","13":"tag-allentown-planning-commission","14":"tag-allentown-skyscraper","15":"tag-allentown-tower","16":"tag-is-the-allentown-pencil-tower-being-built","17":"tag-umran-global-investments-allentown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56413","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=56413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}