Architecture has often been viewed as a male dominated field. While about 50% of architecture students are female, less than 20% of licensed architects are female. The Lehigh Valley, however, has its share of successful female architects who’ve made a name for themselves in the profession.

The 125-seat upscale American-style restaurant debuted as the Cosmopolitan in 2010 and was converted to the fine dining seafood grill, Hook, in 2015, to meet what owner Bill Grube said was an under-served niche in downtown dining options.

Popular among millennials and meant to encourage collaboration and innovation, open floor plans have been popular for years. But fears over health safety since the coronavirus pandemic and anxiety over working in close proximity to others may force landlords and business owners to rethink how work spaces are designed.

Middle Smithfield Township has hired CBRE to sell its Country Club of the Poconos Municipal Golf Course on Big Ridge Drive in East Stroudsburg.

Construction of single-family homes rebounded strongly in the Lehigh Valley after the spring COVID-19 shutdown, and is now 8% ahead of last year’s pace.

Serfass Construction of North Whitehall Township and the Scully Co. of Jenkintown are partnering on the project to build two five-story buildings at 1649 Lehigh Parkway East, just north of the Regency Apartments off of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

A Harbor Freight Tools is under construction in Stroudsburg. The tool retailer will replace the former A.C. Moore hobby store at 1122 N. Ninth Street in the borough.

Homes sales in Northampton and Lehigh counties surged in September, as settlements rose 23.2% from the year before.

TSW Alloy Wheels is moving into a 105,840-square-foot warehouse built by J.G. Petrrucci Co. Inc. at 4650 Braden Boulevard East in Easton. TSW will occupy approximately 60,000 square feet of the building.  

As it tries to navigate the challenges of COVID-19, Philadelphia-based PREIT, co-owner of the Lehigh Valley Mall, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, a move it said will help it restructure.