Such a great conference

 Well, media diva extraordinaire Matt Kardashian-Tuerk has quickly returned from his global jaunt to Morocco to attend a “conference” and immediately called a press conference to shift all attention to him. He looked rather jet-lagged and disheveled while standing at the news conference podium, most likely because he had to cut his two-week vacation to Morocco short.

The news conference provided essentially no information that wasn’t available already through the DA’s office, so I am not sure why he needed to call it at 5 pm on a Friday. Oh wait! He needed to look like he “showed up “for Allentown, even if he wasn’t here during the critical hours.  

The firefighters and police officers were probably so annoyed to be standing with him after working non-stop on the fire and subsequent investigation. They stood there and listened to him take ownership and lie about the mayor’s office involvement when they are the true superstars in this incident.   

I can’t say enough how amazing the firefighters, police, and EMS were fighting this fire and responding to the community.

Tuerk thanked the Fire, Police, EMS, Building Standards, and Streets department but then he thanked the mayor’s office?! He said they were up into the late night/early morning working on communications.

Not sure where the communications were going, maybe to the residents of Tangiers Morocco? Maybe they are still working on the communications and haven’t sent them out? Either way the mayor’s office, as should always be expected, failed again on getting information out. Remember Snowmageddon during the winter when the city was so negligent that they went silent and did nothing? You would have thought they learned something from that situation? No chance.

I would honestly like to know how much the city had to pay for overtime to pull off this wasted conference. It is clear that it was put on to show the community that Tuerk is here and that the case is solved after 48 hours. He is right, it was solved after 48 hours but he had absolutely nothing to do with it being closed. He was at a Moroccan bathhouse and then on an expensive early return flight for a jog in the park and a worthless press conference, even WFMZ realized there was no news here – they cut the feed early and returned to normal programming. I prefer Judge Judy anyway.

It’s hard to take any messaging seriously from this administration. It always shows up late, polished, and completely disconnected. The city’s problems are real time. His responses feel like reruns.

If he spent half as much time in the city as he does traveling and curating his media presence, maybe the message wouldn’t always feel out of touch — or arrive after everyone’s already figured out what’s going on.

It should be known that this isnt a Hyman property. WFMZ and the Morning Call have all reported that the owner of this property is Urban Residential Properties, John Palumbo. 

WFMZ .com Mar 2026: "The plan is for a 16-story, 360-unit apartment building at 249-301 N. Front St. Urban Residential Properties plans to demolish the former American Atelier furniture factory to construct the building."

A fellow Allentonian made this.  So funny