I watched the Lehigh Valley’s warehouse economy transform Upper Macungie before my eyes.
In the early 2000s, the change first showed itself through traffic. Route 100 became packed with tractor-trailers moving through roads and intersections not designed for that volume of freight.
The Trexlertown bypass and improvements around Routes 100 and 222 relieved bottlenecks. They also made an already valuable location more attractive to developers by improving access from large tracts of land to Interstate 78, Route 22 and the rest of the region…