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Volume 4, Number 1 - Urban Economic Development - Spring 2000
Title: Brownfield Redevelopment in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Author: Donald T. Cunningham, Jr.
Abstract: With the decline of manufacturing as the major contributor to the national economy,
many cities across the United States have found themselves with large tracts of industrial land that need to be redeveloped.
These sites, known as brownfields, offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to promote and manage growth. Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania contains the nationŐs largest single-owner brownfield site, located on the land formerly occupied by Bethlehem
Steel Works. The following article summaries the events leading to the creation of the brownfield site and the policy problems
and solutions that local leaders have devised for its proper redevelopment.
About the Author: Don Cunningham received a masterŐs degree in political science from Villanova
University and a bachelorŐs degree in journalism from Shippensburg University. He served previously as a senior information
specialist at Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., media relations director of Moravian College in Bethlehem, and as an award-winning
newspaper writer. He was a member of the Bethlehem City Council from 1995 to 1997 and was sworn in as mayor in 1998.
The Cunningham family has lived in Bethlehem for five generations.
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