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Originally Posted by EastSideHBG
Whoa yeah, this thread is a blast from the past! RE: HIA (MDT) yep they are planning a lot, I know people in Middletown along the river whose houses were bought out a few years ago due to expansion and/or upcoming "noise pollution" from new and lower flight patterns so I assume we will be seeing a lot of changes in the coming years.
Due to some unfortunate circumstances I had to spend a lot of time in Harrisburg again April through May and the area is definitely changing. It's still a weird animal to me but it doesn't seem to be as "stuck" as it was prior to now and there seems to be some good momentum going.
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Its been a long time since this thread has been active. Maybe I should have been contributing more.
The last 10 years have been rough on the burg. The pent up issues of the trailing years of the Reed administration had to be dealt with. Thompson the following mayor was totally incapable of dealing with said issues and it put many investment opportunities on hold. The last 4 years has seen progressively more functional city government. (still miles to go) and investment is starting to take advantage of opportunities.
Downtown (where I have lived for 11 years now) is starting to pick up. While not numbers that over cities would be proud of, and almost totally unrecognizable from the street level. There has been about 400 apartments and condos added to the downtown in the last 3 years. Most getting old buildings back on the market. Demand for new units are high and vacancy downtown is mostly transactional. Making rents rise. Rents probably need to rise about another 20% before developer led new construction will be profitable. So we are going in the right direction.
"Upper mass market retail" is starting to take chances and in many cases is succeeding.
Parking lots are getting replaced with quality infill projects of varying sizes. Tower cranes are in the air and will likely be in future as well.