Road work connected to the proposed FedEx distribution
center takes place in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, on Thursday, the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said.
A contractor working for the Rockefeller Group Development
Corp. of New York will perform the work to extract core samples for potential
future road improvements for the private development.
The work will take place on Airport Road between Race Street
and Avenue C near Lehigh Valley International Airport and on Race Street
between Willowbrook Road and Airport Road.
The work should take one day to complete, but could be
extended if necessary, said Sean Brown, spokesman for PennDOT.
The FedEx center would be in Allen Township on 250 acres of
land owned by the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority. In October 2013, the
authority agreed to sell the land to Rockefeller.
As previously reported, Clark Machemer, vice president and
regional director for The Rockefeller Group, said he hopes to close on the
first property in 2014 and start construction once the property is acquired,
bringing hundreds of construction jobs and hundreds of permanent jobs.
Source: LVB.com
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