Historic airfield gets modern hotel addition
Ground has been broken on the first on-site hotel at Lehigh Valley International Airport, a 145-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel slated to open in roughly two years.
Nearly a century ago, the parcel where the hotel is being constructed was an emergency landing strip for air mail pilots for the airport, also known as Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton airport (ABE).
The airport, the second-largest cargo operation in Pennsylvania, broke ground last year on a $40.8-million expansion to its cargo services to meet growing demand from Lehigh Valley businesses.
In 2023, the airport opened a $35-million expansion of its passenger terminal.
The Lehigh County Industrial Development Authority secured some of the project’s funding through four tax-exempt bond issues, totaling $42 million.
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