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New Allentown Arena To Include Hotel, Meeting Space

ALLENTOWN, Pa.

Allentown's downtown hockey arena complex is designed to include an eight-story hotel with a restaurant and one floor of meeting rooms, a six-story office building with a penthouse level and a 125-space underground parking garage that will be accessible from Eighth Street.

The historic Dime Bank building on Seventh Street will house the hotel lobby, and include a "party deck" at the same level as the arena's lower suites. Guests sipping cocktails before events at the hotel will be able to congregate on a catwalk that will line up with the fourth floor of the office building.

The hotel and Hamilton Street retail and restaurant spaces should be ready for interior finishes by May 2013, with the entire project slated for completion in September of next year.