{"id":254094,"date":"2026-07-28T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254094\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:19:13","slug":"new-toys-r-us-store-coming-to-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254094\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toys R Us store coming to the Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toys R Us, which closed its retail locations nationwide amid bankruptcy in 2018, will soon open a new store in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The store will open in September at the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township, a mall representative confirmed, in the upper level near OFFLINE by Aerie. It will operate during the mall\u2019s normal hours through next summer \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be a standalone store, the mall representative added, distinct from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2022\/07\/21\/toys-r-us-to-make-return-to-the-lehigh-valley-and-nationwide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pop-up selection at the mall\u2019s Macy\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Toys R Us store used to operate nearby on Grape Street, but it closed with the rest of the chain\u2019s locations in the United States in 2018 after operating under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2018\/03\/23\/whitehall-toys-r-us-launches-going-out-of-business-sale-entire-store-up-to-30-off\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bankruptcy protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toys R Us, which closed its retail locations nationwide amid bankruptcy in 2018, will soon open a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,433,182,28,436,432,1654],"class_list":["post-254094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-retail","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254094","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=254094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}