Morning Call- Where Credit Is Due

Some have criticized the Morning Call newspaper as being in the bag for the NIZ. However The Morning Call--to their credit--published on December 30, 2016 this article on How downtown Allentown's retail landscape changed in 2016 I think it's a fair assessment as to what's going on in downtown Allentown.

As one can read between the lines few of these businesses met with great success.

More then a number of these businesses moved out of the Promenade Shops in Saucon Valley failing to achieve the successes they expected.

For various reasons neither materialized here nor there. Nor have the city's coffers benefited from many of these NIZ projects' ongoing promises

What Are We To Conclude?