page_title: Arbogast & Bastian
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Arbogast & Bastian / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The old Arbogast &amp; Bastian offices in Allentown, Pennsylvania; now part of the America On Wheels museum.
context_page_description: Arbogast & Bastian was the name of a slaughterhouse and meat packing plant located in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Once a national leader in hog slaughtering, the company had the capacity to process most of the 850,000 hogs raised annually in Pennsylvania for slaughtering. In its heyday, Arbogast & Bastian slaughtered an average of 4,000 hogs daily.
  Arbogast & Bastian, which was founded in 1887, operated for nearly one hundred years before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1984, citing cash flow issues brought about by market turmoil and labor disputes. The company filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy the following year.
  With the exception of the company's offices and the storage building, the Arbogast & Bastian plant was demolished in the late 1990s. These surviving offices were later incorporated into the America On Wheels museum, which was opened on the site of the former Arbogast & Bastian plant in 2008, while the storage building was redeveloped, becoming RB Collection - Ruozzi Brothers Collection: a trading and restoration center for classic and vintage automobiles along with Palazzo Reale, a residential complex with 7 luxury residences.
context_section_description: As early as 1989, city officials in Allentown had announced plans to revitalize brownfield land along the Lehigh River, which included the abandoned Arbogast & Bastian plant.  This redevelopment, which was to be known as "Lehigh Landing," was originally to include a museum, a brewery, walking trails, a footbridge across the river, and a promenade for festivals.  Allentown businessman Raymond E. Holland, former president of Holiday Hair Fashions, had purchased the abandoned Arbogast & Bastian plant for $250,000 in 1985 and gave it to the Allentown Economic Development Corp. as a charitable contribution in 1990.  Development of "Lehigh Landing" was hindered by fundraising problems, environmental remediation issues, and even a national debate on pork barrel government spending.  The iconic Arbogast & Bastian plant remained vacant for over a decade, often the victim of vandalism and suspicious fires.  The plant was finally dismantled in late 1990s, and the company's large heart-shaped sign, long a fixture of the Allentown skyline, was taken down on June 30, 1998. The offices and the storage building of Arbogast & Bastian, had not been torn down and were later incorporated into the America On Wheels museum, which was opened on the site of the former Arbogast & Bastian plant in 2008  and RB Collection-Ruozzi Brothers Collection / Palazzo Reale, occupying the redeveloped storage building.
caption: The former offices of Arbogast & Bastian, which survived demolition in the late 1990s, now house the administrative offices for the America On Wheels museum.
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