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What Goes in One Bethlehem Plaza's First Floor?

Vacant coffee shop on first floor of Bethlehem's 'urban renewal' tower needs a new retailer or eatery.

  The 11-story One Bethlehem Plaza at 1 W. Broad St. has always enjoyed a sort of dubious distinction of being the biggest and highest-profile building of the city’s short-lived and ultimately scrapped “urban renewal” effort of the 1970s. A steel, brick and glass monolith amid mostly 19th and early 20th Century buildings on the eastern side of downtown, it is the largest building in the city’s North Side core, with nearly 120,000 square feet of office space. On the first floor of this tower sits a storefront that building real estate broker CB Richard Ellis of Allentown hopes to lease to a restaurant or retailer. See a CBRE building brochure. What goes here Bethlehem? Tell us in the comments. It has been nearly two years since the Rock n’ …

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Daryl Nerl

2:59 am on Thursday, December 6, 2012

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What Goes in the Old Art & Drafting Connection?

In recent months, Westgate Mall store was home to Lehigh Valley Republican Victory Center. A week after the election, it is once again vacant.

  Back in May, we wrote about the vacant storefront at the once popular Art & Drafting Connection in the Westgate Mall that had been vacant for a couple of years. Not long after that, a temporary purpose was found for the space: The Lehigh Valley Republican Victory Center became a hub for volunteers to meet, pick up signs and make telephone calls on behalf of GOP candidates. On the day before Election Day, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and actor Jon Voight came to the center to thank and fire up volunteers to keep pushing for Mitt Romney to win Pennsylvania. A week later, barely a trace of the pre-election activity remains. The large storefront is once again vacant. For years, it was the home of the Art & Drafting Connection, a well-…

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What Goes in the Stefko Center?

Four vacant storefronts offer lots of possibilities for strip mall along Stefko Boulevard.

What Should Go in Bucchin's Superette?

Neighborhood corner grocery closed at Third Ave. and W. Broad more than a year ago. What should take its place?

What Goes in the Old Elek Plumbing Building?

Former William Elek Ltd. building sits in the heart of the busy SouthSide at 128 E. Third St. Tell us what should go here.

What Goes in the Old Straub Auto Dealer?

What goes in the vacant auto dealership at W. Broad St. and 11th Ave.? Tell us in the comments.

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Wine Bar Planned in Former Morning Call Bureau

Corked Wine Bar could be opening at 513 Main St., which has been vacant since newspaper shuttered bureau in 2008.

  A Historic Downtown storefront that has been vacant since The Morning Call closed its Bethlehem Bureau in 2008 will be home to a new wine bar and lounge by February or March, according to The Express Times. Corked Wine Bar is now planned for the 6,000-square-foot space at 513 Main St., owner Joe Grisafi told the newspaper. As currently planned, the restaurant will hold 160 seats in the restaurant area and 60 seats in the wine bar area, an open kitchen and a private room for parties, the newspaper reported. Plans also call for self-serve machines that can offer measured pours of wine of as little as an ounce for the sampling connoisseur. Grisafi has a successful restaurant track record. He is vice president of Roma Ristorante in the …

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What Goes in the Old Elek Plumbing Building?

Former William Elek Ltd. building sits in the heart of the busy SouthSide at 128 E. Third St. Tell us what should go here.

What Should Go in the Former Morning Call Bureau?

The Lehigh Valley's regional newspaper operated a bureau there for decades, but the storefront has been vacant now for more than 3 years.

What Goes in the Old Dempsey's?

Dempsey's in the Westgate Mall closed at least 5 years ago, but nothing has come along to take its place.