SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – A popular grocery store chain is making moves in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
Construction of a new Giant store is nearing completion at the South Mall on Lehigh Street in Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
Work is wrapping up on the new store\u2019s interior, along with its fa\u00e7ade, parking lot and nearby fueling station.<\/p>\n
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A new Giant store is coming soon to the South Mall on Lehigh Street in Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n
In sharing another news story on the topic on its Facebook page, South Mall indicated that the new Giant store is expected to open sometime next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cOpening in November!\u201d the South Mall announcement reads.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for your patience while construction continues! South Mall is OPEN during construction! Stop out today!\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giant Company first announced plans for the new store and fuel station in November 2023.<\/p>\n
The new, ground-up store will total approximately 68,000 square feet and will be a redevelopment of a vacated section within the South Mall shopping center at 3300 Lehigh St.<\/p>\n
Upon completion, the company\u2019s current store and fuel facility located at 3015 West Emmaus Ave. in Allentown will close.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A Giant store currently operates on West Emmaus Avenue in Allentown.<\/p>\n
Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n
The West Emmaus Avenue store is continuing to operate as normal until<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 35 years at our current location on West Emmaus Ave., it\u2019s time to grow our store footprint and move a little further up the road,\u201d said John Ruane, president of The Giant Company, in a November 2023 news release.<\/p>\n
\u201cA larger and updated store will allow us to offer our Allentown area families the latest amenities while underscoring our commitment to providing our customers with great value, the best quality and friendly service they\u2019ve come to expect from GIANT.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new South Mall store will occupy the site of a former Bon-Ton department store, which closed in 2018. It will feature a newly reconfigured parking lot.<\/p>\n
Signs inside the South Mall indicate that the new Giant store is \u201ccoming 2025,\u201d but an exact opening date is still unclear.<\/p>\n
In response to an e-mail inquiry sent on Monday, Giant spokesperson Ashley Flower told 69 News that details will be shared \u201cin the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A new Giant store is coming soon to the South Mall on Lehigh Street in Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve not yet announced the opening date for our store in Salisbury Township but are looking forward to doing so later this year,\u201d Flower stated.<\/p>\n
Currently, The Giant Company operates seven stores and employs more than 1,400 team members in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
Guided by its brand platform, “For Today\u2019s Table,” the omnichannel retailer serves millions of individuals across Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1923 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, The Giant Company employs more than 35,000 team members at over 190 stores, more than 130 pharmacies and over 100 fuel stations.<\/p>\n
The Giant Company, owned by Ahold Delhaize USA, also has over 180 online pickup hubs and grocery delivery service in hundreds of zip codes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Giant Company family of brands includes Giant, Martin’s, Giant Heirloom Market, Giant Direct and Martin’s Direct.<\/p>\n
At the South Mall, Giant will join a growing roster of retail tenants, which includes the newly opened S&D Soulicious Cuisine restaurant<\/a>, along with a forthcoming Burlington store<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other tenants joining the roster in recent years include Caring Hearts Thrift Boutique, DragonKnight Gaming and Collectibles, C&I Minerals, fitness facility SuperSets and multi-level children\u2019s recreational facility Ohana WonderTown Playground.<\/p>\n Another addition, Back to the Arcade, with more than 70 retro and modern arcade games, opened in late 2021 in a renovated space that once housed Victoria’s Secret.<\/p>\n The South Mall’s origin dates to 1971, when its original owner – Hess’s of Allentown – built a department store at the site. An expansion that included an enclosed mall occurred a few years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – A popular grocery store chain is making moves in the Lehigh Valley. Construction of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,5477,153,155,154,5478,5480,1724,5476,433,4084,157,5481,28,2183,5473,5479,5474,5472,5475],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-ashley-flower","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-giant","tag-giant-store","tag-grocery-store","tag-john-ruane","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehigh-street","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-new-store","tag-pennsylvania","tag-salisbury-township","tag-south-mall","tag-south-mall-store","tag-the-bon-ton","tag-the-giant-company","tag-west-emmaus-avenue-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","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=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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