PRESS RELEASE

CITY OF BETHLEHEM

ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS CANCELLED

EXTENSION JUNE 4, 2020

Mayor Bob Donchez has announced that the cancellation of public meetings has been extended through June 4, 2020 at which time the situation will be reevaluated. Such reevaluation may require additional cancellations. Notice will be provided once a determination is made.
 

Please monitor the City’s website at and social media for additional information including closures of City facilities, postponement of public meetings and updates on COVID-19.
 

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
 

REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

MAY MEETING CANCELLATION

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Due to the current COVID-19 situation and in accordance with the announcement by the City of Bethlehem Mayor, all public meetings through June 4, 2020 have been canceled. 

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​As a result, the next regular meeting of the Redevelopment Authority, scheduled for May 28, 2020, has been canceled.   The next regular meeting of the Authority is scheduled to be held at 5:00 PM on Thursday, June 25, 2020 in Town Hall at Bethlehem City Hall. 

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The Authority will provide updates regarding its meeting schedule on this website.  Any meeting of the Authority, which might be scheduled prior to a regular scheduled meeting date, will be publicly advertised as required.

 

CORONAVIRUS CLOSURES NOTICE

 

The entire City of Bethlehem community has been closely monitoring the developments regarding the coronavirus and its spread.

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Following the Center for Disease Control’s recommendations this weekend that organizations postpone in-person events and gatherings consisting of 50 people or more, ArtsQuest is closing the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks and the Banana Factory to the public effective noon, March 16 through at least March 31. All programming at the buildings, including cinema screenings and comedy shows at the ArtsQuest Center and classes at the Banana Factory, have been suspended at this time. 

 

In addition to the ArtsQuest properties, the City of Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority’s Visitor Center at SteelStacks and Hoover Mason Trestle at SteelStacks are also closed through at least March 31.

 

We continue to follow this situation closely and will provide additional updates as needed. For the latest updates on the Steel Stacks campus, we ask you that you please visit the ArtsQuest website at www.artsquest.org.

 

We thank everyone for their understanding during these uncertain times.