Bethlehem Steel acquired the Coke Works in 1918 from Lehigh Coke Co., which opened it six years earlier. Even as the company closes operations in Bethlehem, it is attempting to expand elsewhere.

The Bethlehem Steel plant, a remnant of the U.S.' rich industrial past, is being converted into that most American of ventures, a casino. History in the remaking - Los Angeles Times ...

Bethlehem Steel officials don’t deny that. And yet nearly five years after it was proposed, the 160-acre Works project remains a barren brownfield of tremendous promise — already more than two ...

In the 1890s, Fredrick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), regarded by many as the world’s first efficiency expert, arrived at Bethlehem Iron (not yet officially Steel) at the request of company management ...

In 2009, six years after Bethlehem Steel pulled the final curtain and closed its Pennsylvania-based corporate headquarters, global casino impresario and multibillionaire GOP fundraiser Sheldon ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The buildings of the old Bethlehem Steel Works are stark and deserted now, ghostly remnants of a bygone era when steelmaking factories were one of the industrial ...

He says the proposed Bethlehem Works could have enormous economic and social implications for the neighborhood. GUILLERMO LOPEZ: As the steel mill was developing, these homes would just crop up ...

The 1170 Eighth Ave. project, on land where Bethlehem Steel had its 22-story headquarters until it was demolished in 2019, is owned by Lewis Ronca and Norton Herrick of SWB LR Ltd and 8th and ...

General view of blast furnace "A"; looking southeast; The building to the right is the crucible steel building - Bethlehem Steel Corporation, South Bethlehem Works, Blast Furnace "A", Along Lehigh ...

Work on Bethlehem Steel's coke plant claimed a life in 1912 - Almanac July 20, 2012. Updated: ... were engaged in laying gigantic gas mains from the coke plant to the steel works.