{"id":181233,"date":"2026-05-01T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181233\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:02:07","slug":"wegmans-buys-cranberry-land-for-new-pa-grocery-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181233\/","title":{"rendered":"Wegmans Buys Cranberry Land for New PA Grocery Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major grocery chain is one step closer to opening its first store in the Pittsburgh area. <\/p>\n<p>Wegmans Food Markets has officially purchased land in Cranberry Township, locking in plans for its first local store.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Business Times reports the company paid just over $14 million for a 13-acre site at Cranberry Springs, where a 115,000-square-foot store is planned. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say site work is already underway, with construction expected later this year. <\/p>\n<p>The store is still projected to open in 2027 and could bring between 400 and 500 jobs to the region.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported last week that Wegmans could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kdkaradio\/news\/local\/south-hills-wegmans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eyeing <\/a>a second location in the South Hills area of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major grocery chain is one step closer to opening its first store in the Pittsburgh area. Wegmans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3028,36336,1724,73,75,74,8785,10984],"class_list":["post-181233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-cranberry","tag-cranberry-township","tag-grocery-store","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-shopping","tag-wegmans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181233","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=181233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}