Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments in Allentown, and his wife Monica, have sponsored a new program to encourage science learning through the Da Vinci Science Center. 

Governor Tom Wolf today joined Allentown area officials to celebrate the groundbreaking of the $65 million Da Vinci Science Center in the city’s Neighborhood Investment Zone downtown. 

The Da Vinci Science Center is getting ready to start construction of its new state-of-the-art facility in downtown Allentown, and it will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at its future site at 18 N. 8th St. on Friday to mark the start of the project. 

The Da Vinci Science Center is building a new museum in downtown Allentown to offer three times the exhibit space and more interactive educational programs.

The City of Easton has settled on the sale of a property that will bring a more than $75 million mixed-use development project to the downtown.

The Da Vinci Science Center’s plan to build a science and technology learning center in downtown Allentown received a $5.6 million funding boost from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Da Vinci Science Center’s Science City project, once touted for Easton, has now selected downtown Allentown for its new complex.

Plans to construct a more than $100 million science museum in Easton have been called off. Lin Erickson, executive director of the Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown, which has been planning the Da Vinci Science City, said the nonprofit no longer plans to go ahead with the project at that location, which was to be built along Easton’s riverfront.