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Outdoors retailer Bass Pro Shops could help jump-start major redevelopment projects, including a possible hotel and convention center, at the former Bethlehem Steel plant. Developers have been in talks with city officials over the last four or five months about introducing the company's second store to Pennsylvania near the Sands casino in south Bethlehem, a source familiar with the project said. Mayor John Callahan acknowledged Bass Pro was one of several retailers that have expressed interest in a site in or near the cavernous No. 2 Machine Shop near Sands' Luxury Outlets. He said such a retailer would attract customers from well beyond the Lehigh Valley. Click here to read the article.
Outdoors retailer Bass Pro Shops could help jump-start major redevelopment projects, including a possible hotel and convention center, at the former Bethlehem Steel plant. Developers have been in talks with city officials over the last four or five months about introducing the company's second store to Pennsylvania near the Sands casino in south Bethlehem, a source familiar with the project said.
Mayor John Callahan acknowledged Bass Pro was one of several retailers that have expressed interest in a site in or near the cavernous No. 2 Machine Shop near Sands' Luxury Outlets. He said such a retailer would attract customers from well beyond the Lehigh Valley.
Click here to read the article.