Bethlehem is receiving a historic preservation award for the
work the Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority did to turn an 1863 Bethlehem Steel
Corp. building into a city visitors center.
Preservation Pennsylvania has granted the city its 2013
preservation award for an industrial project based on the building’s previous
use.
The Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority spent $5.5 million
from a special Steel site redevelopment fund to renovate the former Steel stock
house into the visitors center and office space for ArtsQuest. Construction
company Boyle Construction, of South Whitehall Township, refurbished both the
building’s original stone work and interior steel.
“Given the building’s prominence on the site and its age and
importance, we felt it was important to not only ‘rehabilitate’ the building
but ‘restore’ it as well,” authority Executive Director Tony Hanna said in a statement.
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