{"id":313492,"date":"2026-10-24T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:18:11","slug":"flagship-market-opens-in-erie-ahead-of-holiday-season-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313492\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagship Market Opens in Erie Ahead of Holiday Season | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new marketplace opened in Erie just in time for the holiday shopping season, giving small businesses and local vendors a place to showcase their products.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"market.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Flagship Market officially opened on Saturday at 3742 West 12th Street, in the former Dollar General building.<\/p>\n<p>Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the morning, visitors had the opportunity to browse a variety of vendors inside the market, enjoy live music and food trucks, and take part in giveaways.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the market is to support small businesses, local makers, vendors and up-and-coming entrepreneurs while creating a gathering place for the community.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they plan to continue hosting markets and special events in the weeks leading up to Christmas, giving shoppers more opportunities to support local businesses during the holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new marketplace opened in Erie just in time for the holiday shopping season, giving small businesses and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[733,5398,136,138,137,128028,3706,20907,15425,7254,128029,2918],"class_list":["post-313492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-community-event","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-flagship-market","tag-food-trucks","tag-holiday-shopping","tag-live-music","tag-local-vendors","tag-market-opening","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313492","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=313492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}