The 10-day festival will examine a Bethlehem reimagined after the demise of Bethlehem Steel.
This summer, Lehigh is scheduled to begin construction on its Health, Science and Technology building, which will be home to the new College of Health. The New Residential Houses are taking shape further up the hill, and the SouthSide Commons residential facility is nearly complete at Brodhead and Packer avenues.
Just steps from the university, on streets that are predominantly to the east and west of campus, are row homes, apartments and small homes that juniors and seniors and graduate students opt to rent. About a third of undergraduates live off campus.
When Warren Clark and his partner, Derrick, began exploring a move north after a few years in Austin, Texas, their first plan was to settle back in Philadelphia. It was a move that made sense, not only because Derrick had previously lived in and knew the city well, but also because the couple would be trading one metropolis-sized college town (Austin) for another (Philadelphia).
