President Barack Obama has chosen Allentown — a city known in the national consciousness for its blue collar character and industrial struggles — to kick off a nationwide listening tour on the economy.

The White House announced the day-long visit Monday night, but has not released details. Obama is expected to make multiple local stops during his first visit to the Lehigh Valley as president. Obama was last here April 20, when he dropped by the Brew Works in Bethlehem in the closing hours of the 2008 Democratic primary election.

The trip, the first by a sitting president since 2004 when George W. Bush visited both Allentown and Kutztown in the heat of the 2004 campaign, will come a day after Obama hosts a Dec. 3 “Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth” at the White House.

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