With the applicants’ consent, the Bethlehem Historic Conservation Commission voted again to table a tweaked plan for demo and new construction on the site of five adjoining buildings along South New Street at their March 16 meeting at city hall.
Architects Eric DeLong’s and Anthony Civitella’s proposal to raze an entire row of attached buildings containing 319, 321, 323, 325, 327 S. New St. and construct a new seven-story mixed-use building with ground floor retail and tenant amenity space again hit a speed bump with the commissioners.
Assisted by Craig Johnson with North Star Construction, DeLong and Civitella faced pushback against the total demolition of one of the more historically-intact buildings in the grouping, as well as the height of the new construction…