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Craft Beer Festival Coming To Reading In April
Join us as we celebrate great Craft Beer from local and around the country selections, at the inaugural Reading Craft Beer Festival! Breweries and beer enthusiasts from across the region will gather one Saturday afternoon for an unlimited sampling of over 100 fresh beers of all colors, styles, and tastes and a whole lot of fun!
The Reading Craft Beer Festival will be held at the Santander Arena in Reading, PA on Saturday April 18, 2015. Downtown Reading has not been the site of a craft beer festival of this size and scope.
Join Us
Tickets are available now at:
- The VF Outlet Box Office at the Santander Arena
- All ticketmaster outlets
- Charge by phone at (800) 745-3000
- Purchase online at ticketmaster.com
For more information check out the Reading Craft Beer festival website: http://www.readingbeerfest.com/
New Reading Authority Racing To Meet Deadline For State CRIZ Application
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At its second meeting in as many days, the newly formed City of Reading Revitalization and Improvement Zone Authority continued racing a Nov. 30 deadline to apply for a state CRIZ designation.
“If we win, I hope the new zone will create jobs to help stimulate our economy and the community’s growth,” said Mike Toledo, director of the Daniel Torres Hispanic Center and authority treasurer.
The CRIZ program was created by recent state legislation to provide economic development and job creation within a city. Only two Pennsylvania third-class cities will receive that zone designation in 2013. Other candidates are Allentown, Bethlehem, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre, Chester, Erie, Lancaster and York.
Reading Civic Center Venues Performing Better Than Last Year
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Reading’s two civic center venues are doing far better financially so far this season compared with the first five months of last season, but they still aren’t up to budget projections, the Berks County Convention Center Authority learned Thursday.
Several shows sold out, but attendance at others – among them Alan Jackson and American Idol – was lackluster, Zane Collings, general manager, told the board.
The civic center generally operates at a loss the first five months and did so again this year, he said. The loss was more than the budget projection, but far less than last year, he said.
Boscov Asks Reading To Take $1 Million Loan For Proposed Hotel
Retailer Albert R. Boscov, whose nonprofit Our City Reading is trying to get financing for a four-star Doubletree Hotel along Penn Street, asked City Council on Monday to approve a $1 million federal loan as part of the package.
“If you can help us here, I promise you a hotel,” Boscov told council members.
Council is slated to vote on the deal Monday.
Reading’s Penn Square Beautifiers Looking For A Few Rooters
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The Penn Street Posse’s Plan A to pretty up the planters on Penn Square didn’t work out.
So Plan B commences Saturday, thanks to a lot of volunteers.
Among them is Diane Salks, owner of Riverview Tree & Landscaping on Pricetown Road in Alsace Township.
She and a crew – most of her 27 employees wanted to volunteer, but she ordered some to stay behind and work – will be planting 95 liriopes with a bluish hue and 45 knockout rose bushes in hot pink and red.
Open House At GoggleWorks Apartments This Weekend
After years of planning and more than a year of construction, the $16.7 million GoggleWorks Apartments are far enough along that its sponsor, retailer Albert R. Boscov, plans an open house Saturday and Sunday.
The open house will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Second and Washington streets complex named after the late state Sen. Michael A. O’Pake.
Essentially, it will be just one apartment. The furniture is being set up this week.
And it won’t be handicap accessible, at least not yet. The two elevators are off-limits to the public because the building is still under construction; visitors will have to climb a flight and a half of stairs.
GoggleWorks Apartment Project Uses An Unusual Steel Framing Process
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The wraps on the new GoggleWorks apartments on Washington Street in Reading will be long gone by early summer. In the meantime, the $16.7 million building remains swathed in plastic to keep workers warm.
The plastic also has been covering up an unusual construction process based on a metal framing system. Instead of a typical structural steel framework filled in with masonry blocks and wooden planks, it has prefabricated metal framing and walls that stack in place made by ClarkDietrich Building Systems, an Ohio-based provider of steel construction products and services.
Eric Burkey, president of Reading-based Burkey Construction Co., the project’s general contractor, said the walls are set in place and the cold-formed steel joists and metal deck are set before the walls are placed on the floor above. The wall panels literally sit one on top of the other and carry through the overall height of the building.
“This kind of system has been around for a while,” Burkey said. “It just hasn’t been used a lot.”
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