User blog:I Am A Superstar!! : )/New Article on Martin Tower Online!

Hey! Some news I read today about the Tower, and it is positive! Sounds like they ARE going to save the Tower in the near future!
 * In Bethlehem that field likely starts at Martin Tower, the vacant skyscraper sitting on 52 acres off heavily traveled Route 378. Callahan said it would likely be part of Bethlehem's proposal along with parts of the former Bethlehem Steel plant. Martin Tower has sat idle since the last tenants moved out in 2007. Plans for a residential development there haven't left the drawing table because they require the tower to be saved. The building faces huge rehabilitation costs — asbestos removal and a sprinkler system — and its cruciform design renders 30 percent of it wasted space. If those issues can be taken care of through, for example, a CRIZ, that project would become much more attractive to developers, said Amy Hawley, an Allentown real estate broker who represented developers that lost a bid to buy Martin Tower in 2005. "There's a demand for that location," Hawley said. "It's demonstrated by the success of the development around it."
 * The key will be luring enough business to the project to generate the taxes needed to pay off the bonds.

&#35;iamasuperstar (talk) 19:31, October 7, 2013 (UTC)