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Delgrosso served in, arguably, the most dynamic time in Bethlehem's recent history as its biggest employer and taxpayer, Bethlehem Steel, went bankrupt and the city leaders had to plot a new future for their town.
"Jim was a person of integrity, and we needed someone like that when Bethlehem made the transition from an industrial community," City Council President Robert Donchez said. "He was a role model for everyone on council."
Nicknamed "Gentleman Jim" by some, but referred to by others as an aggressive fiscal watchdog, Delgrosso earned his reputation through his line-by-line critiques of city budgets and statesmanlike skill in building coalitions to get his policies passed.
Delgrosso considered his defining vote the one in 1996 to rezone Steel's land on the South Side. Cast five years before Steel declared bankruptcy, the controversial decision gave 160 acres of the dying Steel plant carte blanche zoning, except for a few uses like prisons and landfills.
That zoning paved the way for the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, which Delgrosso lived to see open at the former plant earlier this year. He also saw the first companies open in a $1 billion Bethlehem Commerce Center on the eastern part of the Steel tract.
A look around the city shows what he and his coalitions have accomplished over the years. As councilman, he helped write ordinances covering everything from keeping bulky, "scary-looking" security gates off businesses to outlawing public nudity -- a measure devised to keep strip clubs out of the city.
"It sounds hokey, but what drove him was his love for the community. He loved Bethlehem and wanted to serve the community," said Tom Doluisio, Delgrosso's friend of 50 years and former Bethlehem Area School District superintendent. "He didn't do things for personal gains. He did what was right."
But his first priority, friends say, was his family. He leaves behind, a wife, son, daughter and two grandchildren.
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