New City Hall Groundbreaking on Friday
City plans to move government offices to new center about a block away.
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Easton will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new city hall on Friday, the mayor's office said Monday.
The groundbreaking—scheduled for 2 p.m.—comes about six weeks after Mayor Sal Panto first announced plans to move the city offices from the Alpha building to the intermodal center at 123 S. Third St.
In addition to the city offices, the intermodal will include a LANTA bus terminal, commercial space and a new 375-space city parking deck.
City officials say the move will help generate income for Easton through the sale of the Alpha building and from rents from the other intermodal space, and give the city goverment a more visible, centralized location.
Critics of the project have said the city has moved too quickly, and that the intermodal isn't the right design for a city hall.
Ronnie DelBacco
8:46 am on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Mayor Panto and council should then take those ceremonial shovels and have a ground breaking ceremony on South Side in our forgotten neighborhoods to fix the sidewalks and curbs.
Bethlehem gets Steel Stacks, event centers, and casinos. Allentown gets AAA baseball, and hockey. Easton gets a parking garage.
If Panto and council are going to waste money, they could have at least brought back the circus to that location so we could all come downtown and enjoy it. The current circus they have going has doesn't seem to be drawing a crowd to downtown at all.
joan
1:19 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Unless the county ZONING laws change, no $ will be generated through the Alpha building. The County & City will pile on MANY MANY new zoning laws to get the building up to snuff. Costing Way too much $ for anyone to invest. Unless of course it's The Donald. I will follow this story and Pray I am wrong.
Tom Coombe
1:22 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Joan, why would a zoning change be necessary?