The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission is now working to join municipalities together to coordinate their municipal plans, a move that could place industrial growth where it can be supported while leaving rural areas free from development. 

The final steel beam was put in place on the new Lehigh Valley Center for Healthcare Education today live on Facebook. 

The lobby of the under-construction Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital will be named for Al Douglass and Jill Raker Hudders Douglass in recognition of a generous gift they made as part of the Hope Starts Here capital campaign to fund the new facility. 

The City of Bethlehem passed an ordinance that, in part, requires construction firms to have an apprenticeship program in order to bid on jobs within the city limits.

Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Muhlenberg’s Level II adult trauma center officially began operations Sept. 1

St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) will add a 175,000-square-foot patient care tower to its Monroe Campus in response to rising demand for its healthcare services. The $85 million, four-story addition will double the size of the existing hospital.

A State College-based contractor embroiled in one of the largest prevailing wage criminal cases on record, plead no contest to theft and will be paying over $20 million in stolen wages to over a thousand Pennsylvania workers.

LVB: It’s been a wild year. How has your company dealt with the way the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the construction industry?

The second phase of construction is set to begin on the new Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hecktown Oaks in Lower Nazareth Township. The new hospital is scheduled to open in the summer of next year.

J.G. Petrucci Co. Inc. has announced plans to develop a more than 240,000-square-foot industrial facility in Nazareth on a 23.51-acre site it recently acquired.