sunday i drove through easton the crosswalks are nice but i still believe the mayors brainstorm bus terminal and actually all the museums should have been redirected to the properties lafayette college now owns good ideas but save the prime business local for private developement with less restrictions and i cannot wait to see what the mayor is going to use from his trip to israel

All the museums...? I only know of the Sigal Museum specifically. As for the intermodal, last I heard there was intentions for something like 25.000 sq/ft set aside for commercial development. And the properties you refer to that Lafayette now owns sit in a flood plain that makes commercial development difficult from a financial pov. Maybe you don't like Mayor Panto cuz he's a democrat, and that's your prerogative, but don't muddle the facts to suit that opinion. And that not withstanding, your post has nothing to do with the original article. A better discussion would be how one defines a "grocery store" versus a low end convenience store that offers only unhealthy packaged goods at a steep mark up, cigarettes and lottery tickets. That's hardly a grocery store. How many of these establishments does one small city need?

duh how many business were operating in the "flood plain" successfully for years?i am talking about the canal museum the proposed high school athletic museum muddle the facts? if that ahole mayor is your hero good for you aholes of a feather stick together he ran the hub cap store out of there good going i am a fan of free enterprise that is being hindered by holier than thou aholes thank you for your comment but i wont say anymore it might be too much for you to understand

Let's see...when the floods first fit in 2004 there were three businesses in that general area; Jac & Co., Easton Sanitary, and the Hubcap Store (I'm not sure if Easton Printing was still there in 2004. After the next two floods, it became impossible for those businesses to remain, exception being the Hubcap Store. When new potential investors tried to redevelop those properties, Federal regulations made it financially impossible. I know of one businessman who was going to put an eatery in the old Club Mohican, but wasn't able to make the numbers work due to the new regs. The Hibcap Store skirted codes for decades and had become structural deficient for the use. That's the end result of that owner's neglect of the property. The city gave him plenty of chances to address those issues. He decided to ignore them. His loss. The canal museum is in Hugh Moore Park now. The High School Hall of Fame is only a portion of the intermodal. Being a "fan" of free enterprise doesn't mean you get to skew facts to suit your personal agenda. Any association I might have with the mayor, of which I have very little, doesn't change that.

No name calling. Even if you clean it up.

lets see all the way up to 2nd and northampton sreet is bacically affected by floods humm 3rd street larry holmes drive and the basements of businesses in the circle are affected the businesses that operated in the mayors give away to lafayette college mama rosa pizza raymond burkot had his offices there cases tire service reese cadillac dundee clothing moms restaurant halpines garage and the carwash has operated long time originally oped by the divetro brothers phooey flood plan that is a good comercial property tract what else about flood plain it didnt stop lafayette college from gobbling it up oh tell me about mayor pantos knowledge from his israel trip he learned something and was going to emply it beautiful walkways another wasted grant count the parking spaces in the circle businesses thrive on parking there used to be 100 parking spaces in the circle and the circle itself had bathrooms one of the wasted grants could have renovated them

further thought easton needs a hockey arena oh oh it can use funds from surrounding ares to fund it