Lehigh Valley’s newest Taco Bell joining popular fast-food corridor in Allentown

Chalupa, gordita and locos tacos fans before long will have a new place to “Live Mas” together a well-liked Allentown quickly-foodstuff corridor.

Symptoms went up in latest weeks for the construction of a new Taco Bell restaurant behind Wells Fargo Bank along South Fourth Road on the city’s South Side. A chain spokesperson verified to lehighvalleylive.com Friday the eatery would be opening later this calendar year. The spokesperson mentioned the web page would have a travel-by means of but couldn’t give any other information about the challenge.

Preliminary programs in February 2019 for the project indicated a 2,753-square-foot creating with seating for 66 men and women, as properly as an outdoor porch and 37 parking spaces, according to a WFMZ-69 News report.

Taco Bell, a subsidiary of Yum! Manufacturers, Inc., is 1 of the foremost Mexican-impressed swift-services cafe brand names around the globe. The chain is known for serving created-to-buy and customizable tacos and burritos, as very well as other specialties. The chain and its franchisees run more than 7,000 restaurants, like practically 500 places to eat across almost 30 international locations outside of the United States, according to its internet site.

The new Taco Bell will be signing up for various other fast-casual eateries on the approximate a single-mile extend in between Chapel and Emmaus avenues. There is presently a McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC and Wendy’s. The new Taco Bell in addition is remaining crafted close to what will grow to be a new Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on the web site of a former Checkers Generate-In.

Developer Allentown Fourth LLC commenced development this earlier April on the 2,145-sq.-foot Popeyes, 1935 S. 4th St., metropolis spokeswoman Genesis Ortega explained to lehighvalleylive.com Friday.

Checkers, which opened in 2014, was shut down by the metropolis 4 several years later owing to well being violations, which includes absence of refrigeration, in accordance to the Morning Get in touch with newspaper. A WFMZ-69 Information broadcast confirmed the previous Checkers setting up staying hauled absent on a tractor trailer to make way for the new Popeyes.

The Popeyes chain has a lot more than 3,600 dining establishments nationally with regional eateries together MacArthur Highway in Whitehall Township and Hanover Avenue in east Allentown. Furthermore, there are strategies to construct an additional Popeyes, alongside with an Arby’s restaurant, on the site of the now demolished Ahart’s Marketplace in Phillipsburg.

Ahart’s shuttered in 2017 in Phillipsburg, adopted by equivalent closures at the grocer’s other areas in South Bethlehem in April 2021 and in Allentown in November 2021.

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Pamela Sroka-Holzmann might be attained at [email protected].