{"id":9656,"date":"2015-11-10T17:06:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2015-11-10T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:06:52","slug":"lehigh-financial-group-helps-new-owners-purchase-ritas-italian-ice-in-northampton-borough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=9656","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Financial Group Helps New Owners Purchase Rita\u2019s Italian Ice In Northampton Borough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>New Owners Plan Site Improvements During Off-Season\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Allentown, Pa<\/em>. \u2013 For the first time in a decade the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritasfranchises.com\/stores\/store.cfm\/store\/4075\" target=\"_blank\">Rita\u2019s Italian Ice<\/a> in Northampton will be under new ownership when it opens in the spring, thanks in large part to the Small Business Administration (SBA 7a) loan arranged by <a href=\"http:\/\/lehighfinancialgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh Financial Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian and Karen Eager purchased the business franchise and the real estate at 3219 Cherryville Rd. in mid-October and plan to make a number of improvements to the property, said Lehigh Financial\u2019s Jeff Barber.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great destination for families and the surrounding communities and it will continue under its new owners of the business,\u201d Barber said after the closing on the sale. \u201cThey will continue to offer more than the usual Rita\u2019s location with miniature golf and room for parties.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lehigh Financial Group \u2013 which includes Barber and colleague Lewis Edwards &#8212; helps clients find and arrange financing for loans ranging from $100,000 to $5 million for purchase or refinances all types of properties.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAt a time when bank financing \u2013 especially for commercial lending \u2013 is extremely difficult to arrange, we can help cut through the red tape and encourage economic development and redevelopment throughout the region,\u201d Barber said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 how Lehigh Financial Group LLC can help your business, please see our website at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com.\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>http:\/\/www.lehighfinancialgroup.com.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Owners Plan Site Improvements During Off-Season\u00a0\u00a0 Allentown, Pa. \u2013 For the first time in a decade the Rita\u2019s Italian Ice in Northampton will be under new ownership when it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=9656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lehigh Financial Group Helps New Owners Purchase Rita\u2019s Italian Ice In Northampton Borough<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9657,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ritas.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656"}],"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=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}