Blighted Properties In Allentown

Back on April 9, 2012 'Lehigh Valley Business.com' reported,"U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent, R-15th District, and other officials gathered in Allentown's Old Fairgrounds Neighborhood today to announce a high-impact project aimed at cleaning up blight and increasing homeownership in center city....

Dent announced details of a $1.175-million plan by Housing Association & Development Corporation (HADC) to rehabilitate seven vacant and blighted houses clustered along three blocks of the N. Sixth Street corridor running through the heart of the Old Fairgrounds Historic District.

The completed houses will be sold to first-time home buyers with household income in the low- to moderate-income range...

The project's addresses are 427, 453, 508, 615 and 616 N. Sixth Street, 533 Liberty Street and 536 Allen Street."It's been two years since this was announced. Apparently things didn't go as planned.

(Thursday, April 17, 2014)
Bo Koltnow @ WFMZ-TV69 reported--
No work is being done on housing project years after awarding of grant


h/t to Bo Koltnow for his follow up report.