On November 1, 2011, six stores opened along a two-level shopping corridor built on the site of a former steel mill. Outside, the remains of one of the country’s major industrial sites still stood. Blast furnaces, worn and rusted, rose over South Bethlehem.
Inside, people shopped for shoes at Nine West or bought coffee at a cafe while walking through a climate-controlled walkway that connected a casino floor to a newly opened hotel tower.
The Minsi Trail Bridge passed directly overhead. The entire site stood on land Bethlehem Steel had used for more than 100 years before its bankruptcy in 2001…