Lehigh University unveiled plans to build a four-wing dorm complex overlooking the heart of its campus.<\/p>\n
The 23,000-square-foot East Hill Residential Halls complex is slated for a wooded slope on University Drive between McClintic-Marshall House and Drinker House on the South Bethlehem campus.<\/p>\n
The plans got a preliminary review at the Bethlehem planning commission meeting<\/a> on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n Architectural plans and renderings<\/a> attached to the meeting agenda<\/a> don\u2019t specify the number of rooms or beds in the dormitories.<\/p>\n The college newspaper, The Brown and White<\/a>, reported that plans call for 370 beds, while lehighvalleynews.com<\/a> reported the complex will have 375 beds in a mix of 245 single and double units for freshmen.<\/p>\n The Brown and White<\/a> reports the college hopes to start building in 2026 in time for a fall 2028 opening. Lehighvalleynews.com<\/a> reports no action was taken at the Dec. 9 meeting.<\/p>\n The university board of trustees adopted a 30-year master plan<\/a> in August. Details<\/a> are on the Lehigh University website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh University unveiled plans to build a four-wing dorm complex overlooking the heart of its campus. The 23,000-square-foot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-72669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72669","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=72669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}