{"id":305694,"date":"2026-10-13T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305694\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:32:09","slug":"new-chick-fil-a-wawa-to-be-proposed-for-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305694\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chick-fil-a, Wawa to be proposed for the Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planning officials will soon consider a new Chick-fil-A restaurant and Wawa gas station in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The two projects will be considered Thursday during a South Whitehall Township Planning Commission meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwhitehall.com\/Home\/Components\/Calendar\/Event\/2262\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the township website said<\/a> \u2014 preliminary plan review requested for Chick-fil-A, and preliminary and final plan review requested for Wawa.<\/p>\n<p>The 5,133-square-foot Chick-fil-A restaurant would include a drive-thru and over 50 parking spaces at 1605 N. Cedar Crest Blvd., the meeting agenda packet said, while the 6,049-square-foot Wawa station would include over 70 parking spaces at 1810 Route 309. Hopes to open a convenience store and gas station at the Route 309 property date back to a 2020 sketch plan.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the township municipal building at 4444 Walbert Ave. in South Whitehall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Planning officials will soon consider a new Chick-fil-A restaurant and Wawa gas station in the Lehigh Valley. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-305694","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-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305694","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=305694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}