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Home Pennsylvania Allentown

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Downtown Fresno mural
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  • Economic Development

From Fresno to Duluth to Allentown, with Montana in Between

  • James Fallows
  • March 30, 2016
Here are some generally positive developments from places we’ve visited in our travels. Fresno: This evening Fresno, California, held its big “State of Downtown” event. You can see the details here.…
Fresno's Fulton Pedestrian Mall in 2011 (David Prasad / Flickr)
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  • Economic Development

Can Cars Save Downtown?

  • James Fallows
  • May 4, 2015
Fresno, California prepares to rip up its landmark pedestrian mall and replace it with a street.
Liquor bottles in bar (Prayitno Photography / Flickr)
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

The Hard Road to Making Hard Liquor

  • John Tierney
  • November 4, 2014
A look at a nascent distillery in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley
Various flavors of mead from The Colony Meadery in Allentown, Pennsylvania (The Colony Meadery)
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

Making Mead in a Space-Age World

  • John Tierney
  • October 21, 2014
A new craft-beverage business in Allentown, Pennsylvania, benefits from its association with an incubator of high-tech businesses.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

What the Beer Industry and the Computer Industry Have in Common

  • James Fallows
  • October 15, 2014
They grew up in the same era and, despite some obvious differences, have some surprising parallels.
The "brewhouse" at HiJinx Brewing Company—the 'hot side' of the brewing process. (John Tierney)
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

Pennsylvania’s Beer Economy

  • John Tierney
  • October 15, 2014
Brewers have been perfecting their recipes in this part of the country since the middle of the 19th century.
An earlier era's vision of the idealized Scout, outside BSA headquarters in Texas (Tim Sharp/Reuters)
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  • Arts

How the Boy Scouts Are Adapting to Modern American Life

  • James Fallows and John Tierney
  • October 7, 2014
A local example of a century-old organization finding a new place and role for itself
The back side of 400 West Rich, an artists' enclave (John Tierney)
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  • Economic Development

Urban Comeback Stories in 2 Swing States

  • James Fallows
  • October 5, 2014
Tales from two cities, plus the secret of the writing life
Rendering of waterfront development.
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  • Economic Development

Wasted Waterfronts: Why Cities Struggle to Build Along Rivers

  • John Tierney
  • October 3, 2014
The story of Allentown, Pennsylvania, as it turns its attention to a long-neglected asset
Map by John Tierney and Deb Fallows
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  • Civic Life

A Day on the Road: A Story-Map View of Allentown

  • James Fallows
  • September 30, 2014
What you find is usually not quite what you were looking for.
Deborah Fallows
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  • Civic Life

The Iron Pigs Come to Allentown

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 25, 2014
Changing the spirit of a town with sports
Warming up before the Pigs-Chiefs night game, Coca-Cola Park (James Fallows)
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  • Civic Life

Iron Pigs Rising

  • James Fallows
  • September 25, 2014
Another strand in the fibers of civic connection
Fountain in Cedar Creek Park, Allentown (John Tierney)
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  • Environment & Sustainability

Water, Water, Everywhere: Lehigh Valley Edition

  • James Fallows
  • September 22, 2014
Allentown deals with fiscal problems from its past with a bet about water supplies for its future
Fountain in West Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania (John Tierney)
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  • Economic Development

The City That Turned Its Water Into Cash

  • John Tierney
  • September 22, 2014
"We've got unfunded obligations in the hundreds of millions. What can we leverage?"
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  • Local Institutions

Vaulting to Great Heights in Allentown

  • Deborah Fallows
  • September 18, 2014
How girls from the Lehigh Valley become world-class gymnasts
Motivational billboard at the Parkettes gymnastics training center in Allentown, Pa. (Deborah Fallows)
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  • Civic Life

First Bowling Alone, Now Vaulting Together

  • James Fallows
  • September 18, 2014
From Tocqueville onward, observers have thought that informal organizations held America together. Are any of them left?

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