{"id":131269,"date":"2026-03-06T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131269\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:26:12","slug":"wawa-to-open-at-whitehall-mall-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131269\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa to open at Whitehall Mall next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Wawa will offer free coffee and T-shirts when it holds its grand opening next week in Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n<p>The location will open at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 12, at 1519 Whitehall Mall, a news release announced, with a ribbon cutting at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the 13th of nearly 100 Wawa locations the chain will open this year across 14 states.<\/p>\n<p>The first 100 customers will receive \u201cWawa Grand Opening Tour in the USA\u201d T-shirts as supplies last, while the free hot coffee of any size will be available through March 15. Like the Wawa that opened last month at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/02\/18\/wawa-sets-opening-date-for-new-store-at-former-brass-rail-in-allentown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the former Brass Rail restaurant in Allentown<\/a>, this grand opening will feature a hoagie-building competition for first responders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our nation celebrates its 250th birthday in 2026, we\u2019re proud to be a company with more than 200 years in American business, now across thirteen states in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Midwest markets. We are excited to celebrate by opening nearly one hundred stores this year as we spread our wings to reach even more new communities across the country,\u201d Wawa President Brian Schaller said in the release. \u201cOur ongoing growth and expansion allow us to invest in more communities, create new jobs and opportunities for our associates to soar in their careers, and provide meaningful support to more communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Wawa will offer free coffee and T-shirts when it holds its grand opening next week in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-131269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131269","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=131269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}