BETHLEHEM — The Hoffman Car Wash on Delaware Avenue that has been closed over concerns that the hill above the Normans Kill where it is located could give way will not reopen.
CEO Tom Hoffman Jr. said Monday that while the company had an engineering plan that would have shored up the location at 55 Delaware Ave., the cost of implementing it would have been unfeasible. The company was looking for a different site in Bethlehem to open another car wash.
The town ordered the car wash to close in mid-October after a 23-foot-long crack emerged at the site. At the time, the town described the situation as an “imminent threat to public safety” and warned that “portions of the slope on the property (were) actively moving,” according to an assessment conducted by the town’s engineer…