Marcon Panel Shop - Allentown, PA
Building America seeks to:
Create lasting economic opportunity by generating permanent and construction jobs that provide family-supporting wages, strong benefits, and meaningful career pathways for residents of the communities it serves; and
Encourage fair wages, local hiring, and quality work, by requiring 100% union construction on every project financed.
In 2024, Building America allocated $8 million in NMTCs to the construction of the $52 million Marcon Panel Shop Project in Allentown, PA. The project transformed the former site of the Allentown Metal Works (two abandoned buildings on 17 acres of land) to a modern manufacturing plant for prefabricated wall panels. As a result, Marcon Industries, a third generation, family-owned company with over 90 years of history in the Lehigh Valley, was able to create 277 union construction jobs and 82 permanent jobs with wages and benefits above local averages.