Developer Lou Pektor says he wants to bring to the township a $125 million office complex that could employ 2,000 people.
Township commissioners on Monday got their first look at plans for the Mill Creek Corporate Center, a 72-acre complex on William Penn Highway that Pektor hopes to build through Penn Cap Properties, a company that has 34 existing properties in the Lehigh Valley.
Penn Cap's buildings tend to house "class A, executive-type tenants," Pektor told the commissioners.
This new plan would follow that trend, potentially attracting employers hoping to relocate from New Jersey.
Pektor said it will take 10 years for the development to be built out, "certainly not an overnight project."
And it's one that could find Pektor fighting a traffic-management battle, commissioners told the developer.
"You have your work cut out for you," Commissioner Michael Hudak said.
Pektor acknowledged that, but also said the project has benefits: creating high-wage jobs without adding children to the Bethlehem Area School District.
"The negative side is traffic," he said. "The positive side is that it's an economic engine."
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