Facade goes up on Three City Center

Workers for North Star Construction Management are installing the façade for the $30 million Three City Center next to the Lehigh County Courthouse on the site of the former Colonial Theater on Hamilton Street. - (Photo By Brian Pedersen)

GMCS Editorial:  Another great project by North Star Construction Management. They are one of a handful of very competent and capable contractors in our Lehigh Valley Region. 

Construction continues on one of the newest office buildings in downtown Allentown, with two major tenants already signed.

Workers for North Star Construction Management are installing the façade for the $30 million Three City Center next to the Lehigh County Courthouse on the site of the former Colonial Theater on Hamilton Street.

“The wall between the courthouse is almost done, now we are doing the front,” said Jim Gentile, president of North Star. “By next week, all the steel will be up; panels will all be in by October. By the end of November, it will all be closed in, and we’ll be ready to start on the inside.”

In a few weeks, the company will begin installing windows, he added. North Star has about 50 workers on the project on any given day.

On the side facing Hamilton Street, the structure will be seven stories, but eight in the back, with spaces for underground parking. Three City Center will have additional parking on the ground level in the back of the building.

North Star will begin interior fit-outs in the middle of November. The law firm Norris McLaughlin & Marcus and engineering design firm Rettew Associates are confirmed tenants.

The project should be complete by May, with tenants ready to move in then, Gentile said.

Once complete, the project will have 166,000 square feet of office space and 20,000 square feet of retail space on the first level.

“Our biggest challenge which we are past, is building right next to the courthouse, just maintaining that building no matter what,” Gentile said. “That was our biggest concern, protecting that building. We had to take our time with that.”

Source: LVB.com