{"id":923739,"date":"2026-07-09T18:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/923739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:39:10","slug":"philadelphia-based-credit-union-expanding-first-location-in-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/923739\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia-based credit union expanding, first location in Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4U2TA3X7OFHGRDZBTG4MUB4F2Y\">American Heritage Credit Union is planning to open first Lehigh Valley location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4VT7CTQHTBEFRI3HATIGHBRG7Y\">The Philadelphia-based credit union purchased a property on Cedar Crest Boulevard for $1.475 million in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OQQEWJKSORAXBHTUZICIRV6F2E\">American Heritage Credit Union is bringing its first Lehigh Valley branch to Salisbury Township, near Allentown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/bill-hess-ab2b8616_americanhertigaecreditunion-lehignvalley-activity-7472970970794745856-YNzw?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACHGwGMBHBxwFZAKbfuPFS6s7RcjY6yrPdM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/bill-hess-ab2b8616_americanhertigaecreditunion-lehignvalley-activity-7472970970794745856-YNzw?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAACHGwGMBHBxwFZAKbfuPFS6s7RcjY6yrPdM\">marking a continued expansion of the Philadelphia-based institution across the region.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N5CPDQ6JZJFFVPOYDMTSZBDQNU\">The credit union plans to open at 1120 Cedar Crest Blvd., a former bank branch with drive-thru lanes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ILX25UNLPBBY5EN6HAFAHHILGM\">The company CEO Bruce K. Foulke was not immediately available for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"K6GRUPI5TBD3LFMDGRYC3EOJP4\">The two-story building offers 4,000 square feet of office space. An opening date has not been announced, and a spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UWE432KTE5DYVOA35EEBEWGUOQ\">The institution currently operates more than 35 locations across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Forbes magazine named it one of America\u2019s Best-in-State Credit Unions in 2026 in both states \u2014 the fourth consecutive year it received the recognition in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Heritage Credit Union is planning to open first Lehigh Valley location. The Philadelphia-based credit union purchased a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":923740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[63940,5229,372813,17281,12847,33623,6459,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-923739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-63940","tag-america","tag-bank-notes","tag-bill","tag-dollar","tag-dollars","tag-money","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}