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🌱 Reading hires a consultant to pursue businesses and downtown investment

Reading, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 4 min read

Greetings Reading! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Reading hires a consultant to pursue businesses and downtown investment
  • Downtown Reading faces a healthcare gap as Penn State Health leaves
  • Generations gather in Reading to remember Kristallnacht and affirm community

Also on today's calendar: Field House Reptile & Exotic Pet Expo and 11 more events.

Today's riddle: What travels all around the world but stays in a corner? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Cooler with periods of rain, with a high of 56 and low of 39 degrees.
  • Friday: A shower; breezy, cooler, temps: high: 45, low: 33.
  • Saturday: Mostly cloudy and breezy, with a high of 46 and low of 37 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Reading City Council approves economic development consultant (readingeagle.com) — Reading will pay an economic development consultant $4,500 a month for the first year to help attract businesses and investment. City Council approved the agreement with Paper Plane Advisory at a reduced initial rate, with work targeting life sciences, advanced manufacturing and downtown housing.
   

2. Medical groups hope to move into Penn State Health's Downtown Reading location after the health system leaves in December (wfmz.com) — Penn State Health will leave downtown Reading by Dec. 31, moving most care to Exeter and Muhlenberg townships and ending dental services rather than relocating them. Social workers are helping family medicine patients arrange transportation. The building's owner says other medical groups have expressed interest, but no replacements are confirmed.
   

3. Interfaith Kristallnacht remembrance held at Reading church (readingeagle.com) — More than 150 people gathered at Reading's Christ Episcopal Church Monday to remember Kristallnacht and strengthen ties across faiths. Holocaust survivor Esther Bratt, 97, attended with her extended family, including a great-granddaughter who described the gathering as reassurance of community support amid fears about antisemitism.
   

4. Reading pedestrian dies from injuries sustained in October crash (berksweekly.com) — Robert Bruce Bellairs Jr., 70, of Reading died Nov. 7 from injuries suffered when a pickup truck struck him while he crossed Fifth Street a month earlier, the Berks County Coroner's Office said. The driver remained at the scene of the Oct. 7 collision, and the coroner ruled the death an accident.
   

5. University in Pennsylvania plans to acquire Marian University (envisiongreaterfdl.com) — Reading's Alvernia University plans to acquire Marian University in Fond du Lac, bringing the two Catholic institutions together under a proposal announced Nov. 9. The deal still needs multiple approvals, and both universities say there will be no immediate changes to tuition, academic programs, employment or campus operations during the process.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What travels all around the world but stays in a corner?" — Postal stamp (Thank you Donald C. for sending it in!)
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