Bethlehem’s Back Door Bakeshop will reopen as a wholesale operation at 7 E. Church St. in the city’s historic district. The business was open for nine years as a retail outlet at Broad and Center streets, before announcing in March that it would close the storefront April 3 and “go back to its origins as a wholesale business.”
Owner Gail Lehman said in an application for zoning approval that the wholesale business will not generate traffic besides a small box truck dropping off supplies occasionally,” she said at a hearing. The bake shop sells its goods through outlets including Scholl’s Orchards on Center Street in Bethlehem.
St. Luke’s Hospital has won South Whitehall Township planning approval for a short-stay medical facility at 501 Cetronia Road. Orthopedic surgery atients who need just one- or…
