{"id":33268,"date":"2025-11-13T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33268\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:50:08","slug":"bethlehem-makes-list-of-top-main-streets-for-fall-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33268\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem makes list of top Main Streets for fall shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/play-icon.png\"\/> Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lvb.com\/tag\/marketbeat\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with MarketBeat\" target=\"_blank\">MarketBeat<\/a> has put out a list of the best 125 Main Streets for fall <a href=\"https:\/\/lvb.com\/tag\/holiday-shopping\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with holiday shopping\" target=\"_blank\">holiday shopping<\/a> and three Pennsylvania streets made the cut, including one in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lvb.com\/tag\/lehigh-valley\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Lehigh Valley\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Valley<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem\u2019s Main Street ranked number 14 on the list that celebrated as a business district that brings out the fall spirit with pumpkins, festivals, and shopfront lights which MarketBeat said aren\u2019t just seasonal decor, but signs that\u00a0\u00a0 small-town commerce remains strong, creative, and community-driven.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Also making the list was Main Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/lvb.com\/tag\/lititz\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with lititz\" target=\"_blank\">Lititz<\/a> and Bridge Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/lvb.com\/tag\/phoenixville\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with Phoenixville\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenixville<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The study surveyed 3,007 U.S. respondents to uncover which main streets Americans most enjoy visiting for during fall for the atmosphere. The nationwide sample represented a balanced mix of ages, genders, and regions, ensuring that both small-town favorites and urban hotspots were fairly represented.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>However, MarketBeat said a clear correlation emerged from the survey, which showed smaller communities tend to outshine bigger cities when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/lvb.com\/tag\/fall-shopping\/\" class=\"st_tag internal_tag \" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" title=\"Posts tagged with fall shopping\" target=\"_blank\">fall shopping<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Out of 131 entries, Main Street appeared more than 40 times, far more than any other name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It said another trend in the survey showed that the highest-ranked streets often have pedestrian-friendly layouts, heritage storefronts, and a growing preference for experience-based shopping.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>That shows shoppers aren\u2019t attracted to these streets for the discounts; they are coming for the experience.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article MarketBeat has put out a list of the best 125 Main Streets for fall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,20905,154,20906,20907,157,20908,20909,20910,20911,2918,7803],"class_list":{"0":"post-33268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-main-street","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-fall-shopping","13":"tag-holiday-shopping","14":"tag-lehigh-valley","15":"tag-lititz","16":"tag-marketbeat","17":"tag-pennsylvania-main-streets","18":"tag-phoenixville","19":"tag-small-business","20":"tag-tourism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268","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=33268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}