Your View from Jeff Parks: Despite the need for affordable housing, now is not the time to convert South Side Bethlehem building into apartments
Thirty years is a long time. Thirty years before I graduated from Liberty High School in 1966, Bethlehem's South Side was a densely populated indus...
May 17, 2023
12:24 AM
Thirty years is a long time. Thirty years before I graduated from Liberty High School in 1966, Bethlehem's South Side was a densely populated industrial, commercial and residential community, the economic engine of Bethlehem and the entire region. My grandfather's stationery store on Fourth Street was in the middle of a bustling retail district a few blocks from Lehigh University. In the 30 years after my high school graduation, employment at the Bethlehem plant went from almost 20,000 to zero.
Jeffrey Parks