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We have BIG news!

The CAT Office and Bicycle Cooperative is moving back to the heart of downtown Bethlehem. We’re moving into a street-facing space at the new Walnut Street Garage at the end of 2025! The Bethlehem Parking Authority and the City have partnered with CAT, giving us the opportunity to feel the pulse of downtown again and to be central for all of Bethlehem’s residents. 

Bethlehem-Based, Lehigh Valley Centered

We are proud that Bethlehem has been CAT’s base of operations for 32 years. As a Lehigh Valley-wide non-profit organization supporting biking/walking/ADA access, and public transit, Bethlehem is geographically central for CAT to serve residents of Bethlehem, Easton, Allentown, and the 59 other municipalities of the Lehigh Valley more easily by human-power.

A New Face on Walnut Street!

We look forward to this new street-facing space in the Walnut Street Garage that will enable CAT to offer more programming (5-6 days/week), more bicycle mechanics classes, more group bike rides & traffic skills classes, to serve more adult residents to build bikes for transportation, and opportunities for more young people to pick up a wrench and gain mechanical skills. 

CAT offers something different, an experience for hungry minds to learn. We’re very happy that we save and rebuild old bikes that might’ve been thrown away—we bring them back to life through knowledge, sweat, grease, and patience. CAT offers opportunities for anyone to be part of something – to be part of a team that learns and works together for the community!

What CAT looks like in 2024 (with a new facility, we hope to double this impact):

• 272 volunteers
• 250 active supporters
• 71 adults in our Bike2Work Bike Build program have refurbished a bike for daily transportation
• 257 Youth bikes refurbished for the community
• 1,493 youth attended 40 bike events that CAT organized or partnered with
• >3,000 volunteer hours at CAT Bicycle Cooperative
• 50 group bike rides with >300 participants (women’s rides, rides for seniors & more)

Plans for the New Space

We are in the planning phase of the new CAT facility. At the new CAT Bicycle Cooperative we plan to have five bike repair workstations for the public to use, so that up to 15 volunteers and clients can be working at the same time. One of the workstations will include a new youth/wheelchair accessible tool bench. 

We will have more space for classes, workshops, bike ride leader trainings, and other events that align with our mission and vision for a Lehigh Valley where walking/ADA accessibility, bicycling, and public transit prevail.

We hope to move into the new facility in December 2025 – but we need your help! 

Our press conference with the Mayor of Bethlehem and Bethlehem Parking Authority kicked off CAT’s fundraising efforts to fit-out of our new facility. Our goal is to raise $100,000 by June 2025, with $50,000 from individual donors and supporting organizations and $50,000 from grant funding. 

Please support us! 

Make your contribution online now, or, if you’d like to have a discussion about how your gift can make a big impact on CAT, contact our Fundraising Committee Chair, Jennifer Cunningham at JenC@lvcat.org.

On behalf of CAT, we thank the City and Bethlehem Parking Authority for this opportunity to expand our programs downtown, and to synergize our work with the efforts underway.

Click Here to Support CAT’s New Facility Expansion Fund Today

Watch full press conference: