PRESS PHOTO BY PAUL WILLISTEIN

An estimated 1,000 attended "The Iron Works Blast" Nov. 8 to promote the municipal, lifestyle and residential project on an approximate 13-acre industrial site along Front Street, Catasauqua. A video of the site was shown. There was food, beverages and entertainment in a building that had housed a plate rolling mill. T-shirts and glasses emblazoned with "Iron Works," the name of the project, were sold. Elliot A. Nolter, above left, intern architect, and Russel P. Pacala, above right, Principal, Spillman Farmer Archictects, designed the project's master plan. A 38,000-square-feet Catasauqua Borough municipal complex, including the police and fire departments, is to be built on the north side of the site. A developer is sought for the rest of the site, envisioned for 200 residential units and 29,000-square-feet of retail and commercial. Crane Iron Works, regarded as the forerunner of Bethlehem Steel Corp., was in operation on the site 1839 - 1921. Fuller Company occupied the site until 1993. Last year, the borough purchased the property from FL Smidth.