{"id":121149,"date":"2026-02-23T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121149\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:37:33","slug":"demolition-begins-on-former-brass-rail-restaurant-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121149\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition begins on former Brass Rail restaurant in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A Lehigh County institution whose doors closed back in 2022 is officially coming down.<\/p>\n<p>Demolition officially began Thursday on the former Brass Rail restaurant building on Lehigh Street in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Crews tell us the demo project will take about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Brass Rail opened a stand at the Allentown Fairgrounds Farmer&#8217;s Market back in September.<\/p>\n<p>A Wawa has been proposed to take the Brass Rail&#8217;s spot on Lehigh Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A Lehigh County institution whose doors closed back in 2022 is officially coming down. Demolition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-121149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}