Lebo Business Districts to Get Facelift

From the Pittsburgh Business Times:

A group of Mount Lebanon community leaders are working on a "visioning plan" that they believe will help revitalize their already thriving business district.

The borough's Economic Development Task Force, which meets biweekly and is composed of school board members, an architect, marketing professionals, small business owners and experts in a variety of fields, is concerned mainly with the Washington Road central business district, and also the Beverly Road and Castle Shannon Road business districts. The idea is to develop and grow the commercial districts by bringing in new businesses and new people, said Dan Woodske, commercial districts manager for Mount Lebanon and a member of the task force.

"The plan will give us a purpose on which we should be focusing for our business districts," he said. "We're working on defining the goals that we want to achieve."

One of the short-term goals for the central business district soon to be met is a facelift. The borough will be receiving a matching $341,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for street and façade improvements in the Washington Road and Beverly Road business districts. Just $25,000 of the total is available for façade improvements for businesses, but sidewalks, planters and other street features, such as light-pole banners, will be upgraded.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/04/21/focus9.html?b=1208750400%5E1621648