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The Lehigh Valley's county executives promoted a new program aimed at helping the region's restaurants, bars and hotels struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic.
$7.5M in COVID-relief grants going to Lehigh Valley restaurants, other hospitality businesses
Updated Mar 18, 2021;
A loan program that previously helped fledging businesses will now help Lehigh Valley hotels and restaurants continue to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Applications can be found here.
Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong said the grants will help “one of the industries that need the help probably the most in this last year the hospitality industry.”
“They have been hurt, as many businesses have, but now we have a chance to reach out and help them,” he said.
Pennsylvania received $145 million for CHIRP, and divided the pot among the counties based on population. Lehigh County received $4.1 million and Northampton County received $3.4 million from the state.
Change on Hamilton Recovery Center opened its doors Friday. The Lehigh County funded program will offer space for recovering addicts to work on themselves and their sobriety.
Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong delivered his fourth annual State of the County address, discussing its successes with dealing with the coronavirus and what must still be done.