{"id":115282,"date":"2022-12-20T21:10:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115282"},"modified":"2022-12-20T21:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:10:38","slug":"couple-to-expand-healthy-juicing-operation-with-building-in-easton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115282","title":{"rendered":"Couple to Expand Healthy Juicing Operation with Building in Easton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Photo courtesy Lehigh Financial Group<\/span><\/p>\n<p>EASTON, Pennsylvania _ Jackie and Wilson Rueda, owners of <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvidacompany.com\/\">Green Vida Co<\/a>mpany,\u00a0 have purchased a commercial property at 104 North Fourth Street to expand their organic cold press juicing business. The local business owners aquired the property with a commercial loan arranged by Jeff Barber of Lehigh Financial Group LLC.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Rueda said after some minor renovations to the property, they would move their juicing operation to the new location. \u201cOur juicing operation has grown, so we are expanding,\u201d she said. \u201cThis purchase allows us to grow our juicing operations even more.\u201d She expects to complete the move early in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ruedas opened their original Green Vida location in Bangor in 2018 and moved to the Easton area in 2019.\u00a0 They started the business after discovering the positive effects that a nutritional diet with natural, high-quality ingredients had on their autistic son\u2019s physical and behavioral health.<\/p>\n<p>They have two locations: The flagship cafe and juice bar is located inside Park Plaza in Forks Township. A second location in the Easton Public Market has been open since spring 2021. \u201cWe are not closing any of our current locations with this expansion,\u201d Jackie Rueda said.<\/p>\n<p>Rueda said Jeff Barber was really helpful in finding the best commercial loan that helped them to finance their expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Barber said he is excited because he knows that the couple will continue to expand their business and do extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>The buyers were represented by Nathan Powell of Keller Williams Realty of Bethlehem. The loan was funded by Members 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Lehigh Financial Group, LLC is a leading source of innovative real estate capital solutions and financing options for commercial customers. The company, based in Allentown, serves the Lehigh Valley region by providing capital for businesses and investors locally, regionally and nationwide. For more information on Lehigh Financial Group LLC, please see our website at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com.\"><em>http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by Beth Orenstein on behalf of:<br \/>\nLehigh Financial Group, LLC<br \/>\n122 North 5th Street<br \/>\nAllentown Pa 18102<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy Lehigh Financial Group EASTON, Pennsylvania _ Jackie and Wilson Rueda, owners of Green Vida Company,\u00a0 have purchased a commercial property at 104 North Fourth Street to expand their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Couple to Expand Healthy Juicing Operation with Building in Easton<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5718,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-easton","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Green-Vida-Company.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}