{"id":178701,"date":"2026-04-28T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178701\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:48:08","slug":"long-standing-lehigh-valley-transportation-company-shifts-operations-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178701\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-standing Lehigh Valley transportation company shifts operations | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Easton Coach Company\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f0f6cf88790.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Amy Unger<\/p>\n<p>FORKS TWP., Pa.- A transportation company founded in the Lehigh Valley more than 40 years ago has left its home outside Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Easton Coach Company is no longer operating out of 1200 Conroy Place in Forks Township.<\/p>\n<p>An employee who answered the phone when a 69 News reporter called said the company moved to 926 E. Market Street in Bethlehem at the end of February. The employee did not know the reason for the move.<\/p>\n<p>Easton Coach was founded in 1984 and officially incorporated in 2002. According to its website, it has a fleet of more than 700 vehicles, including paratransit vans, motorcoaches and minibuses.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the Massachusetts-based Beacon Mobility company acquired Easton Coach as well as Palmeri Transportation, which also based its transportation operations at 1200 Conroy Place.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Easton Coach Company entrance\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f0f71791a04.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Amy Unger<\/p>\n<p>According to Northampton County property records, the parcel is owned by an LLC with a Highland Park, Illinois address. That LLC- Crosswest Beech Easton- purchased the property last year.<\/p>\n<p>A listing on the commercial real estate website Loopnet earlier this year advertised the property as being available to rent. The listing has since been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-acre site includes a nearly 18,000-square foot maintenance shop, 5,000-square-foot office building, and a large, fenced-in lot at the back of the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WFMZ-TV | Amy Unger FORKS TWP., Pa.- A transportation company founded in the Lehigh Valley more than 40&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,79837,153,46306,79836,79834,38197,157,79839,79838,79835],"class_list":["post-178701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-beacon-mobility","tag-bethlehem","tag-commercial-property","tag-company-move","tag-easton-coach-company","tag-forks-township","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-motorcoaches","tag-paratransit-vans","tag-transportation-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178701","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=178701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}