Matthew Tuerk

and repurposed.

Initially repurposed for, this is the 80s, the thought at the time was that it could be an incubator facility, a business incubator.

It did become that, but it was more of a manufacturing incubator.

These were old sawtooth roof buildings with 12 to 18 foot ceilings.

So some big spaces, but not a lot of clearance.

They weren't suited for modern manufacturing.

That's what a lot of the building stock in Allentown looked like.

But the production was still occurring in some capacity in the city, definitely in the region.

When the steel shut down in Bethlehem in 1998, I think, was when they did their last cast.

Leading up to that, the region had already started to think about how to diversify, how to build on the Western Electric, the semiconductor manufacturer.

Lehigh University was a source of engineering talent.

They started to diversify out into life sciences.

So there's some precursor drugs that are manufactured there, some medical supplies that are still manufactured there, B-bron.

Another one that I didn't mention was Air Products.

So it's an industrial gas manufacturer.

I know you guys were recently talking about helium.

Air Products is like...

It's so fun talking to a listener.

That makes it so easy.

So helium is something that Air Products manufactures.