Businesses are seeing the light – natural light, that is.

The Greater Lehigh Valley saw 305 fewer properties listed in September, a 12.6 percent drop compared to a year ago.

A $5.9 million loan for the development of a mixed-use business park in Monroe County is expected to expedite site preparation for the more than $100 million project.

New projects may be stalled in Bethlehem's special tax zone district, but construction is finally picking up with earlier proposals thanks to recent changes made to state legislation.

J.G. Petrucci Co. Inc., a developer with offices in Bethlehem and Asbury, N.J., bought a building for $2.675 million from Hygrade Components in Lehigh Valley Industrial Park IV in Hanover Township, Northampton County.

The historic Abraham Lincoln hotel in downtown Reading will close Nov. 1 and be converted into apartments.

Two projects worth a combined $190 million near Hamburg could transform the landscape of a bucolic path of farmland in Berks County, giving way to what would be a massive warehouse and distribution network.

Moravian College in Bethlehem this year started construction on a $23 million academic building on its Main Street campus.

Apartments, assisted living facilities and condominiums are on the rise in the Lehigh Valley, marking a dramatic shift from the single-family houses, twin homes and town houses that dominated residential development in the region before the financial crisis of 2007-2008, according to the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission’s annual development and outlook report.