{"id":123339,"date":"2023-10-03T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123339"},"modified":"2023-10-03T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T03:42:11","slug":"general-contractor-buys-slatington-building-to-consolidate-warehousing-for-his-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123339","title":{"rendered":"General contractor buys Slatington building to consolidate warehousing for his business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SLATINGTON, Pennsylvania _ Garet Conrad of Franklin Township has purchased a nearly 10,000 square foot building 535 W. Church Street to use as a warehouse for his general contracting business, Conrad General Contracting. The purchase also includes a building with two apartments that Conrad plans to remodel and continue to rent.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Barber of Lehigh Financial Group LLC arranged the financing for the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new location needs some love, but it isn\u2019t anything we can\u2019t do,\u201d said Conrad who had been looking for a site to consolidate his storage locations for his contracting business. \u201cThe apartment building was a bonus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The warehouse location is ideal, Conrad said. It is \u201cpretty much in the middle of everything we do.\u201d Conrad, who started the business 11 years ago, has done roofing, concrete, kitchens, bathrooms, basements and other projects throughout the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad said he\u2019s excited about the move because \u201cI love what I do.\u201d The business has 11 employees and a secretary and may expand in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Barber to arrange financing was \u201cawesome,\u201d Conrad said. \u201cAll the good things I heard about him turned out to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barber said he was happy to help Conrad and knows the move will be helpful for his business. Conrad had been leasing space in three different locations.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Feinberg of REMAX Central in Center Valley was Conrad\u2019s real estate agent. First United Land Transfer of Allentown arranged the closing.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad also owns Big Drip Jewelers on McArthur Road in Whitehall. \u00a0His contracting business has an office in the jewelry store. He is not sure whether he will move it to the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lehighfinancialgroup.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image003-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by Beth Orenstein on behalf of:<br \/>\nLehigh Financial Group, LLC<br \/>\n122 North 5th Street<br \/>\nAllentown Pa 18102<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SLATINGTON, Pennsylvania _ Garet Conrad of Franklin Township has purchased a nearly 10,000 square foot building 535 W. Church Street to use as a warehouse for his general contracting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=123339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General contractor buys Slatington building to consolidate warehousing for his business<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Conrad-General-Contracting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}