Quick Update on the Bethlehem Co-Op: City Hall Is Listening and Will Discuss the Boondoggle

Sept. 24, 2025

— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs

I’ve been posting about the Bethlehem Co-Op Boondoggle for quite awhile, and I’m glad to say, Bethlehem City Hall is listening.

I heard from one appointed and one elected official today, and there will be a discussion in City Hall of the 250 E. Broad St. co-op that doesn’t operate but has received more than $3 million in public dollars.

No matter what comes of this, this project never deserved public funds. If you wish to throw your money into this pit, have at it, but no more tax dollars!

Here is what has to happen:

1 — an accounting of how the public money was spent.

2 — an embargo on giving this outfit another public penny.

3 — Here’s the moon shot, the Hail Mary Pass … can any money be clawed back if it wasn’t used yet, or not used correctly?

The Co-Op has more than $1 million of debt, so probably not.

It’s time, it’s past time, for a reckoning.