The Phillipsburg Mall, which opened in September 1989, has fewer than 20 tenants within the concourse, a parking lot loaded with potholes and a crumbling infrastructure. How did it get here and where is it headed?
20 years ago, a public-private partnership involving Bethlehem Steel executives, public officials and a nonprofit laid the groundwork for the transformation of the massive, 4.5-mile Steel campus into Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII. Today, the park has 32 business tenants employing some 4,200 workers.