20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, including Bethlehem, Easton, Emmaus, Whitehall Township, South Whitehall Township. Price always includes delivery.
Allentown is Pennsylvania's third largest city and the seat of Lehigh County, at the center of the Lehigh Valley, whose Lehigh and Northampton county core holds roughly seven hundred thousand people across Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and the townships between them Deliveries reach Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Berks, Bucks, Monroe, Schuylkill, Montgomery, Luzerne, Lebanon counties, and the practical questions change from one part of the area to the next. Center City, Old Allentown, Old Fairgrounds, West End, West Park, Midway Manor, Trexler Park, Union Terrace, Mountainville, Jordan Heights, Rittersville, East Side, South Side, Little Lehigh Manor, Cedar Park, The Waterfront on the Lehigh each bring their own access, placement, and ground-preparation considerations.
Allentown is a home rule city that runs its own zoning ordinance through the Bureau of Planning and Zoning inside the Department of Community and Economic Development, with construction permits issued by the Bureau of Building Standards and Safety. The most important thing to know here is that the ordinance is new. City Council repealed Chapter 660, Zoning, in its entirety and adopted a new Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map that took effect on 1 January 2026. Outside the city line, every borough and township in the Lehigh Valley writes and enforces its own separate ordinance.
We have delivered containers throughout the Lehigh Valley and we know the local ground: Four corner castings carrying the entire load onto ground that changes five times across the state, and two of those grounds are problems most states do not have at all. Start with why it matters more for a container than for a house: a house spreads its weight along a continuous footing, a container puts all of it through four points. Karst is the first Pennsylvania problem. Large parts of the southeast and the south-central valleys sit on carbonate bedrock, and the Bureau of Geological Survey describes a sinkhole as a subsidence feature caused by surficial material moving down into a pre-existing void. The Lehigh Valley, Lancaster County and the Cumberland and Lebanon valleys are the classic karst country, and concentrating four point loads and then routing roof runoff to one spot is exactly the combination karst does not forgive. Mine subsidence is the second. The Department of Environmental Protection states that millions of Pennsylvania structures sit over old abandoned underground coal and clay mines, and it runs a state mine subsidence insurance program because standard homeowner policies usually do not cover that damage. The rest of the state reads more normally: glacial till, boulders and perched water in the north, steep slopes and shallow rock through the ridges, red shale and clay soils in the Piedmont that hold water and soften, and Pittsburgh hillsides where the city maintains landslide-prone and steep-slope overlays. Over all of it runs freeze and thaw, which lifts a gravel lane every March and sets it back down somewhere slightly different., along with the access and clearance realities of the streets here. Tell us your address and your situation, and you get an honest assessment and an accurate delivery quote.
Warehousing and storage is the fourth largest industry in Lehigh County by employment, and it was second three years ago. Space here is committed on long terms while volume moves on a season. A container or a row of them in the yard covers the peak, holds returns and packaging, and comes off the books when the season turns, without renegotiating anything.
Building equipment contractors sit fourteenth among Lehigh County industries by employment, and crews here work across a lot of separate townships in a day. A container on the job keeps tools, copper, fixtures and materials locked at the site, which takes the daily load-in and load-out and the tool trailer out of the schedule.
Allentown's core is dense rowhouse blocks with small yards and no garage, and parts of it sit inside historic districts. When one of those houses is opened up, a container holds the contents at the property rather than in a rented unit, and the planning question is street width and overhead clearance rather than yard size.
Lehigh and Northampton counties still farm, and a lot of that ground is rented rather than owned, which means no barn goes with it. Containers hold implements, feed, seed, fencing and tools at the field, dry and locked, and they move when the ground does.
Mack Trucks, Air Products, Lutron, B. Braun and the supplier network around them run on parts arriving faster than floor space frees up. A container in the yard stages packaging, fixtures, tooling and spares next to the building instead of in a rented unit fifteen minutes away.
Congregations, schools and community organizations across the valley use containers for chairs, sound equipment, athletic gear, seasonal programming supplies and donation drives. It is the cheapest way to keep interior space in use for people rather than for boxes.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact City of Allentown Bureau of Planning and Zoning, 435 Hamilton Street, 4th Floor, Allentown, PA 18101-1699. Phone (610) 437-7630, open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Construction permits go to the Bureau of Building Standards and Safety, same building, at (610) 437-7591 or (610) 437-7592. When you call, say you are asking about the zoning ordinance that took effect on 1 January 2026, because the previous Chapter 660 was repealed in full and older guides describe a code that no longer applies. If your address is outside the city line, the borough or township that has your parcel is the office to call instead..
Used wind and water tight and one-trip containers are both available. Every unit is inspected before delivery.
All-in pricing with delivery included. Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.