{"id":137627,"date":"2024-11-21T23:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T04:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=137627"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T04:17:04","slug":"lehigh-sold-church-to-pennsylvania-youth-theatre-for-its-new-home-realtor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=137627","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh sold church to Pennsylvania Youth Theatre for its new home, Realtor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania _ Realtor Lucy H. Lennon, owner of Main Street Real Estate Group, arranged for the Pennsylvania Youth Theatre (PYT) to buy the former Light of Christ Lutheran Church and renovate it as its new home. The church, located at 2020 Worthington Avenue, is one of three churches that Lehigh University had purchased for $3.75 million last February. The other two are St. Peter\u2019s and St. John\u2019s Windish. The transaction was completed last month.<\/p>\n<p>Lennnon said PYT had been looking for a new home since its current landlord, the Banana Factory arts and education center on Bethlehem\u2019s south side, is set to be razed. PYT, which offers drama, voice and dance classes as well as a summer camp for children ages 3-18, hopes to open in its new location at the end of January. The new location on Bethlehem\u2019s northside is approximately 3 miles from its current location.<\/p>\n<p>Lennon said she had been quietly working with PYT and with Lehigh University for a while and is excited that she was able to make this deal happen. \u201cBoth PYT and Lehigh are happy with the reuse of the church building for this purpose,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase price was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lucy H. Lennon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Owner\/Realtor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Commercial\/Residential<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Concierge Realtor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pa Lic# RS311838<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Independently owned and operated, MSRG takes great pride in their knowledge of not just the City of Bethlehem, but the Lehigh Valley as a whole. From luxury housing to commercial development, we are confident in representing our client&#8217;s greatest needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBeth Orenstein<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania _ Realtor Lucy H. Lennon, owner of Main Street Real Estate Group, arranged for the Pennsylvania Youth Theatre (PYT) to buy the former Light of Christ Lutheran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=137627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lehigh sold church to Pennsylvania Youth Theatre for its new home, Realtor says<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137628,"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-137627","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\/2024\/11\/star-r.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137627"}],"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=137627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}