{"id":290987,"date":"2026-09-21T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290987\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:22:07","slug":"heres-when-toys-r-us-will-reopen-in-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/290987\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s when Toys R Us will reopen in the Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Toys R Us store will open this week in the Lehigh Valley as the chain works to open over 100 locations in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The new store is set to open Thursday at the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township, a mall spokesperson said, in the upper level near OFFLINE by Aerie. It will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/07\/28\/toys-r-us-is-returning-to-the-lehigh-valley-heres-where\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a standalone store<\/a> and distinct from the pop-up selection at the mall\u2019s Macy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Another 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 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n<p>A Thursday news release announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/toysrus-announces-major-us-expansion-with-120-new-standalone-stores-opening-this-holiday-season-302882103.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nationwide expansion<\/a> of over 100 stores for the holidays in partnership with Go! Retail Group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToys\u2019R\u2019Us has always been a place for discovery, and we\u2019re building on that legacy by bringing customers the hottest toys, biggest trends and experiences that make the brand unlike any other,\u201d said in the release Jamie Uitdenhowen, executive vice president of Toys\u2019R\u2019Us at WHP Global.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis holiday season represents an extraordinary expansion for Toys\u2019R\u2019Us in the U.S., and we couldn\u2019t be more excited to bring the magic of Toys\u2019R\u2019Us to so many communities across the country,\u201d Go! Retail Group CEO Gideon Schlessinger said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Toys R Us store will open this week in the Lehigh Valley as the chain works&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,182,436,432],"class_list":["post-290987","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-retail","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290987","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=290987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}