A local business owner is ready to offer more to the community when a new convenience store opens soon in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
A1 Quick Shop will most likely open by the end of December at 1225 N. New St. in Bethlehem, according to owner Iftekhar \u201cIffy\u201d Ansari and a Lehigh Financial Group news release.<\/p>\n
Operating under Ansari\u2019s A1 brand of convenience stores and a laundromat, the store will offer items like groceries, drinks, tobacco, coffee and lottery tickets. It won\u2019t sell alcohol, however.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hold all my stores to a high standard,\u201d Ansari said in the release. \u201cThey are always clean, well-lit, and fully updated. They may not be Wawa, but they\u2019re decent and respectable stores. Everything inside is brand new.\u201d<\/p>\n
The store will operate 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. all week, the owner said.<\/p>\n
Outside of A1, Ansari is also searching for land or an existing warehouse in the Lehigh Valley to create a 24-hour, indoor recreational center to host pickleball, badminton, table tennis and a walking track.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a huge need for a facility like that in the Valley,\u201d Ansari continued in the release. \u201cAs a professional marathon walker and badminton player, I know how important it is to have healthy spaces where kids and adults can stay active.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeff Barber of Lehigh Financial Group financed the property purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local business owner is ready to offer more to the community when a new convenience store opens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,60,182,434,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-23446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-bethlehem","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-northampton-county","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","17":"tag-retail","18":"tag-things-to-do","19":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446","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=23446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}