{"id":306082,"date":"2026-10-13T23:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306082\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T23:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:54:15","slug":"lehigh-valley-home-improvement-store-closing-after-nearly-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306082\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley home improvement store closing after nearly 70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Valley store will close later this month after nearly 70 years of operation.<\/p>\n<p>The home improvement store Piscitello\u2019s Home Center, 2300 Wood Ave. in Wilson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/piscitelloshomecenter\/posts\/pfbid0c7CeoDRs4U1EzSB6TXmRRDSQa7DnaVhqsdL4dXE3AbtveqdAZZRUvHpN7hNf7VC8l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a liquidation sale starting Tuesday through its final day Oct. 30, offering 20% discounts storewide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this chapter is coming to an end, we want to leave it with full hearts and an overwhelming sense of gratitude,\u201d the announcement said. \u201cWe are proud of what Piscitello\u2019s has been, and even more grateful for the people who made it possible. Thank you for the memories, the support, and for letting our family be a small part of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also announced new store hours of 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Gift cards, coupons and open credits must be used by Oct. 30. The store will fulfill current special orders but won\u2019t take new ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2023\/09\/30\/retail-watch-65-year-old-lehigh-valley-business-getting-new-life-new-ownership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Piscitello family<\/a> established the business in 1958 and has been in its current location since 1971. The Colver family took over in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/piscitellos.com\/about-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the store website said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Colver<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2023\/09\/30\/retail-watch-65-year-old-lehigh-valley-business-getting-new-life-new-ownership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told The Morning Call in 2023<\/a> that he had been a customer of Piscitello\u2019s for many years, and the business expanded under the new ownership, both in size, employees and services offered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh Valley store will close later this month after nearly 70 years of operation. The home improvement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,182,434,28,436,432,2429],"class_list":["post-306082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-retail","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306082","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=306082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}