{"id":132953,"date":"2026-03-08T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:38:38","slug":"7-brew-gets-conditional-approval-for-second-proposed-allentown-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132953\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Brew gets conditional approval for second proposed Allentown location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first Lehigh Valley locations for a drive-thru coffee chain has moved closer to opening after Allentown planners conditionally approved it Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/08\/13\/new-coffee-chain-coming-to-allentown-will-have-to-address-traffic-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7 Brew<\/a> hopes to open a two-lane drive thru at a former Boston Market restaurant at 385 S. Cedar Crest Blvd., where it could serve up to 25 vehicles making on-site orders for coffee, teas, lemonade, slushies and energy drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Franchisee Travis Odom said before the location can move forward, he\u2019ll resubmit the proposal to the city with implemented feedback such as pedestrian access and a bicycle rack.<\/p>\n<p>The drive-thru would operate 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second 7 Brew that Odom has presented for Allentown, following the potential 2952 Lehigh St. location that planners considered and tabled last month due to traffic concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the first Lehigh Valley locations for a drive-thru coffee chain has moved closer to opening after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-132953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-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\/132953","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=132953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}