As a couple hundred well-wishers cheered and applauded, officials dug the ceremonial shovelful of gravel neatly piled in front of them Thursday afternoon on what will be Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital, but the ease belied the complexity it took to arrive at that day.

Demand for housing below the $300,000 price range is strong in one section of Lehigh County, according to a homebuilder embarking on a project that would bring more than 100 new residential units to the market.

With its close proximity to Route 33, UPS will join a host of other distribution companies when it opens its newest facility in the Lehigh Valley in the fall, bringing 900 jobs.

First Amazon, then XPO Logistics and now a third warehouse/distribution tenant will occupy space in a three-building industrial project off Route 33.

Coretech International, a company that specializes in core cutting and core cutting machinery is moving from Alpha, N.J. to a former PPL Electric Utilities building in Allentown.

One of Bethlehem's historic buildings recently sold for $4.5 million.

More than 100 guests visited Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Tobyhanna Township on Tuesday afternoon as the resort owners hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of its convention center.

Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII in South Bethlehem will see a new food manufacturer as a tenant for a facility slated to open next year.

A gentleman and a Hall of Famer died last week – Walter Bahr.

Work is underway to create a new industrial park on Route 33 near the Route 512 interchange in Wind Gap at a 55-acre site and once eyesore as the former home to more than 2 million old tires.