Construction is underway on a planned medical office building on Hanover Avenue in Allentown across from the Allentown State Hospital.

Now that Somera Road Inc. of New York City has selected a construction firm for the renovation of Allentown’s Grand Plaza on Hamilton Street, the developer is eyeing a June completion.

Allentown’s Talen Energy, which spun off from PPL Energy Supply in 2015, has completed the sale of its Interstate Energy Co. LLC pipeline to Adelphia Gateway LLC, a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources Corp.

Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba officially moved into its new 20,000-square-foot offices in Suite 800 on the eighth floor of Two City Center.

Allentown will use a $70,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Grant to help pay consulting costs associated with its Allentown Vision 2030 Comprehensive and Economic Development Plan.

Pennsylvania’s need for increased access to mental health care was the focus of Gov. Wolf’s visit to the Lehigh Valley on Jan. 3.  As part of a new mental health initiative called Reach Out PA: Your Mental Health Matters, Wolf spoke with mental health advocates, providers, legislators, and others at a roundtable at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.

Ernie Choquette has been named chairman of Stevens & Lee and Stevens & Lee/Griffin.

With almost 30 years of experience in the civil engineering industry, Matthew Malozi of Bethlehem has taken on a variety of leadership roles over the years and formed a new company earlier this year.

While economic indicators remain high for the U.S. economy as a whole, the central and southeastern Pennsylvania regions have been beset by tumultuous global trade and a weak manufacturing sector for the last year and a half, according to a recently published study by analysts at RKL, a business consulting firm based in Lancaster

City Center Investment Corp. announced plans to build its tallest building yet, a 16-story office tower that would rise at the corner of Seventh and Hamilton streets across from PPL Center in downtown Allentown.