posted by Mike Madison at 8:26 AM /
Fabulous coffee house? Bellevue has Affogato; Mt. Lebanon has Aldo's. [Update: Fixed the URL; sorry, Rich and Melanie!]
Top restaurant? Bellevue has Vivo; Mt. Lebanon hopes that Bistro 19 gets to that level.
Young people working tirelessly to energize local creative and entrepreneurial communities? Bellevue has the group behind 517521 (who are also behind Vivo, and Affogato), a building on Lincoln Avenue that includes the space that began as Thinktank space and that recently re-launched as the recently opened Creative Treehouse, "a haven for creative professionals in Pittsburgh and those traveling through the area. It will act as a creative and learning community for those seeking a place to gather with other professionals under one roof."
Mt. Lebanon has LEBO, which is hoping to throw a really big after-party on Washington Road next August, after families have finished enjoying a First Friday celebration.
Here's a suggestion that is worth a longer blog post someday: The LEBO group should do something meaningful, and that something is specifically this: Enough with acronyms and the faux "hipness" image. Take that youthful energy and blow open the Mt. Lebanon cocoon. Be concrete. Raise enough money to make the owner of the old Denis Theater an offer he can't refuse. Then renovate the building as a theater - performance - restaurant - bookstore space and make Mt. Lebanon the South Hills culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship destination that it can be. Don't relegate Mt. Lebanon to being the "Cranberry of 1920"; make Mt. Lebanon the Mt. Lebanon of 2007.
Link: Ruth Ann Dailey on Bellevue and other energized older Pittsburgh communities
Link: LEBO wants to make Mt. Lebanon "hip" for young people. (Here is a link to the LEBO site.)
Top restaurant? Bellevue has Vivo; Mt. Lebanon hopes that Bistro 19 gets to that level.
Young people working tirelessly to energize local creative and entrepreneurial communities? Bellevue has the group behind 517521 (who are also behind Vivo, and Affogato), a building on Lincoln Avenue that includes the space that began as Thinktank space and that recently re-launched as the recently opened Creative Treehouse, "a haven for creative professionals in Pittsburgh and those traveling through the area. It will act as a creative and learning community for those seeking a place to gather with other professionals under one roof."
Mt. Lebanon has LEBO, which is hoping to throw a really big after-party on Washington Road next August, after families have finished enjoying a First Friday celebration.
Here's a suggestion that is worth a longer blog post someday: The LEBO group should do something meaningful, and that something is specifically this: Enough with acronyms and the faux "hipness" image. Take that youthful energy and blow open the Mt. Lebanon cocoon. Be concrete. Raise enough money to make the owner of the old Denis Theater an offer he can't refuse. Then renovate the building as a theater - performance - restaurant - bookstore space and make Mt. Lebanon the South Hills culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship destination that it can be. Don't relegate Mt. Lebanon to being the "Cranberry of 1920"; make Mt. Lebanon the Mt. Lebanon of 2007.
Link: Ruth Ann Dailey on Bellevue and other energized older Pittsburgh communities
Link: LEBO wants to make Mt. Lebanon "hip" for young people. (Here is a link to the LEBO site.)
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With great suggestions like this (renovating the Dennis theater) the restaurants are definitely going to succeed, but, this group needs to seek out the support and guidance of the business owners with clout that are successful business leaders..(.e.g. The Satterfield boys at Rolliers...Tamika and Tammy from the Fabric Place...)Uniontown has Joe Hardy...Washington and Canonsburg have the Piatts...Mark Cuban, where are you? Charity begins at HOME!
What would it cost to buy the Denis? $1.5 million? That is about $150 per household in mt lebanon. Where do I send my money to get started?
Does Bellevue have a 1/2 million dollar playground? Didn't think so. We should be more like Bellevue.
Mike,
We thank you for the nice compliment and link regardless of the spelling.
Thankfully Melanie convinced me to buy the URL for aldoscoffee in addition to aldocoffee.
As USC residents, we'll stay out of how the tax money is spent. Be thankful your town officials aren't talking about a $22.5 million aquatic center.
Besids, for your half million, you got a park. All we got for that amount was a contentious lawsuit over cutting and restoring the school's IB program. No monkey bars. Just monkeys.
We got monkeys too. For another cool million we are getting a park at Washington & Bower Hill with the new condos. Just what we need high priced benches to watch the traffic zip on by. Monkey see. Monkey do.
Which $22.5 million aquatic center is that, Rich? This one, or this one?
Now we have to be more like Bellevue, too? But they don't even have a Wikipedia article about their high school so we can trade riffs about who'll get the Pittsburgh Business Times' #1 School in Western PA this year!
Oh wait, they do.
The Denis theater needs a TIF.
If my wife and I end up moving to Mt. Lebo will anyone help me redevelopment that stretch of Cochran rd. between Cedar Blvd area and Bower Hill rd? That area is an eye sore, and how the heck did you folks let two dollar stores in your town? Geez, come on people.
I will help you with the redevelopment. I ask for 25% of profits. I will provide the request for a TIF.
The Denis Theater is going up for sale! For more information, please call:
Kelly Kuzemchak
Northwood Realty Services
412-367-3200 x 229 (office)
412-303-1708 (cell)
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