ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A renovated residential addiction treatment facility in Allentown celebrated its grand reopening Friday, restoring 50 beds that had been lost when the program shut its doors nearly two years ago.
Treatment Trends Inc. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Allentown Residential facility at 18 S. 6th St., drawing county officials, state lawmakers and community partners to mark the return of one of the Lehigh Valley’s longest-running inpatient recovery programs. The facility, which traces its roots to 1972, stopped accepting admissions May 1, 2024, and fully closed the following month after aging infrastructure and mounting maintenance costs made continued operations unsustainable.
The $1 million renovation — funded entirely through Pennsylvania’s opioid settlement allocation administered by the state Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs — overhauled the building’s living spaces, improved safety systems and added full elevator accessibility. No taxpayer dollars were used for the construction…