NIZ land swap stalls, keeping part of Allentown park inside special taxing district

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Officials running a special taxing district that’s brought more than $1 billion in development to the city are looking to change the district’s borders again.

Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone Development Authority, which oversees the NIZ, learned Wednesday that plans that would have changed the taxing district’s borders did not pan out.

The body in September 2021 voted to move almost 4 acres in Bucky Boyle Park out of the NIZ…

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