BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Retro Burger, once home to TheMint Gastropub for more than a decade, is in for a new kind of garnish.
The Bethlehem City Planning Commission unanimously approved a land development plan for a six-apartment, three-story addition off the back of the burger joint at 1223 W. Broad St.
Developers plan to remove the building’s drive-thru — it was a Bank of America at one point — to make room for the project’s four one-bedroom and two two-bedroom units.
‘The right place for this project’
“I believe this was originally a bank building way back — it’s been a number of restaurants,” planner Matthew Malozi said Thursday. “Now it’s becoming mixed use on a primary arterial served by transit, sidewalks everywhere…