City has hopes for Montex tract -- themorningcall.com

Here's the big chance for Allenswamp!

Take this property and build a GIANT City Prison!!!

40 Stories tall with NO basketball courts. Then the City can house most of the creepy crawlys and protect its citizens.

The City could also take criminals from other areas and charge those Municipalities for housing the hoods.

This make tons of sense. It will generat lots of revenue for Allenswamp and create good paying jobs for residents.

That's why I predict it will never happen.

I predict it won't happen because state law does not allow for cities to build their own prisons. The only jail cells cities may have are for holding prisoners until their arraignments. Short stays, such as overnight at best. If you would have suggested the county or the state building it, then I may see it happening, but the city just can't.

NostraTimus wrote:

Here's the big chance for Allenswamp!
Take this property and build a GIANT City Prison!!!
40 Stories tall with NO basketball courts. Then the City can house most of the creepy crawlys and protect its citizens.
The City could also take criminals from other areas and charge those Municipalities for housing the hoods.
This make tons of sense. It will generat lots of revenue for Allenswamp and create good paying jobs for residents.
That's why I predict it will never happen.

You are an a**. Even suggesting buiding a prison in a residential area is stupidity.

What a wonderful chance for fuzzy eddie to spend MORE MONEY WE DON'T HAVE. (That has never bothered him before and shouldn't bother him now. Also, he can get FREE money from the office of fat eddie(which we pay for in taxes). Just put up a backstop and use it for a shooting range to shoot ILLEGAL INVADERS.

pathfinder wrote:

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You are an a**. Even suggesting buiding a prison in a residential area is stupidity.

You're absolutely correct. Just make it a big graveyard. The way you people are killing each other off you need the space. Just a big hole will do.

atown has hope?

Keep it all residential and low density with minimu 1/8 acres sites. NO more than 40 single family residences since it abuts Trout Creek Park. Develop them in the $200,000 to $300,000 range and bring back some families into that neighborhood.

Allentown has a fighting chance if you take back one small section at a time.

Somewhere else, someone indicates that the site that burned and the surround area amounts to 12 acres.

The neighborhood is a mixed economic neighborhood and many would just like to see Good Shepherd Home acquire the total properties and utilize to build a medical office facility or some other type of in-house or outpatient facility for extension of their services.

I would agree. GSH is a good asset of Allentown and has national recognition as an outstanding rehabilitation hospital. If this property could be acquired by GSH it would be good for patients, and good for employment prospects in skilled medicine and allied medicine.

The more jobs that can be created in the interior of Allentown, the better. I would prefer this type of zoning change to make this happen and I would prefer this over my 2nd choice which is low density housing.

It is a rare opportunity to do something of significance in Allentown. I would push for Dent, and all the representative in this region to unite to assist in grant acquisitions for GSH.