well actually there are many trees growing on 7th - there will be 36 more after this weekend and we can use your help.
...just bought a gorgeous over the top mirror from my favorite local store on 7th - For Your Decor at Community Place Antiques - stop in and see what Loretta Beasley has been picking up over the winter - 411 N 7th Street, 610-914-6423
Owner Anthony Rodriguez is ready and willing filling out orders and has the most gorgeous arrangments going out the door. If you haven't already ordered your flowers or forgot your sweetheart...it's not too late!
Call Paradise Floral at 610-433-2305!
Tonight on 7th, the Seventh Street Development Committee is offering a chance to Beat the Winter Blues if you are currently experiencing any. 
Located at 501 N 7th Street where the old 7th Street Glass used to be, Happy Garden serves up great authentic chinese meals every day, 7 days per week. They have the greatest lunch specials at $4.95.
Part of the design was to include a pictogram of the words Happy Garden
Seventh Street's successes—and our role as likely future host for an Italian culinary school—were featured in a WFMZ story. Check out the video.
Here's Peter Lewnes, quoted in a Morning Call article from January 3rd:
Peter Lewnes, manager of Allentown's Seventh Street Development Committee, attributes Emmaus' success in part to its attractive storefronts and low vacancy rate -- the more occupied shops a town has, the more other business owners are apt to move in.... "We went from a 40 percent vacancy rate [on Seventh Street] to about 100 percent occupied,'' Lewnes said. ''In this economy there has been a lot of forward movement.'' He said there has been a push for years to create a similar program along the Hamilton Street corridor, but funding for that has not been available.
And today, from Michael Molovinsky's blog:
Peter Lewnes has been doing an excellent job of filling in the gaps on 7th Street, and applying facade grants in a seemingly appropriate way. On Saturdays one is hard pressed to find a parking space. I believe that his enthusiasm, and a growing community's ambition, has finally awakened 7th Street from a long sleep.
