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Etna BLUE Pony A101000100.013318115030.00.030.0
Etna GREEN Pony A1091090.014517128027.50.027.5
Westwood Oakwood Pony A1063160.0867016021.50.021.5
Sto Ken Rox Pony A1073070.057525122.52.020.5
Brentwood Pony A1064060.01216754020.00.020.0
Swissvale Pony A1054150.01018417019.00.019.0
Sq. Hill Pony A1045140.072104-32016.50.016.5
14th Ward Pony A1037030.05586-31012.50.012.5
Southside Pony A1027120.055109-54011.50.011.5
Mt. Washington Pony A1037030.06298-36112.52.010.5
Urban Impact Pony A1028020.043102-59010.00.010.0
Eastside Pony A1019010.029152-12317.52.05.5
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A Merry Christmas and thank-you to all who have helped this year top $40,000 raised for the Food Bank rehabilitation project. This includes donations large and small. Some folks have given more than $1000. Others have bought a raffle ticket or dropped off a pound of aluminum cans at the Grandview Bakery. All have helped us reach this total. Please continue to give so we can reach our goal and have the Food Bank in its new home by the Fourth of July.
In addition the URA has granted us $30,000 reimbursable for the facade of the building. That is not included in the above total. That money was all our friends and neighbors. Thank-you again













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It’s 2025. The walk to the game at PNC Park starts across the street, where Pirates highlights are playing on a gigantic LED screen, a band is pumping up the crowd on one of two stages, and fans are pounding down a few “arns” in the beer garden.

That’s all part of the vision the team and its partner, HiLife Hospitality, have for the 30,000-square-foot outdoor plaza they are developing at the corner of Mazeroski Way and West General Robinson Street.

It includes a 40 ½-foot by nearly 23-foot LED screen, two stages – one directly across the street from PNC Park’s home plate entrance – and a covered beer garden next to a food stand.

They are planning to fill the plaza with events like concerts, movies, watch parties, and fitness classes that will be programmed throughout the year, not just the 81 days the Pirates play at home.

The two stages will serve as plaza bookends. A longer one will be placed directly in front of the video board. A wider one will be on the east side opposite PNC Park.



















                    









It is official! The MWCDC closed on the 6 Boggs location today. The future home of the Washington Heights Ecumenical Food Bank is now in the hands of the Community. Now it is time to get to work. Demolition will start soon. Stay tuned for updates and details.


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Officials representing the city of Pittsburgh, a veterans organization and two civic groups used a Memorial Day service Sunday to usher in a display of banners — beginning in June — honoring those from Mount Washington who served in the military.

The banners with vets’ photos will hang from street poles along Grandview and Virginia avenues in Mount Washington in years to come between Memorial Day and Veterans Day

“Being recognized is important, especially for the families of those who have passed,” he said. 







 

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GRANDVIEW TOWNHOUSES

If it’s a million-dollar view you want, Kris Senko might have just the place for you. Or at least he’s hoping so. His company, Nesby LLC, is pitching a plan to build eight luxury townhouses on Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington — all aimed at capturing at least part of those postcard views of the Downtown skyline.The townhouses, to be built on the south side of Grandview at the much-traveled intersection with McArdle Roadway, would rise three stories, plus a rooftop deck with a penthouse to top it off.“It’s designed to provide pretty incredible views of the city,” said Nathan Hart, principal at Greenfield-based Hart Architects, the architect for the project.Not every view will be unobstructed, Mr. Senko said. But he is hoping they will be good enough to fetch the asking price — about $1 million for each unit. At least a couple will be over that amount, while others will be “pretty close,” he said. Besides the rooftop deck and penthouse, each unit is slated to feature a third-floor master bedroom with a deck as well as another bedroom/office. The second floor offers two bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and a walk-in laundry. Some will have office space. A living room, dining room, half bath and kitchen with walk-in pantry will take up the first floor. All of the units will have a built-in two-car garage.To clear the way for the new development, Nesby plans to demolish several houses at the site.The firm gained control of the real estate after one of Mr. Senko’s partners, drawn to the location, reached out to a previous developer that had been considering apartments there. Nesby is hoping to break ground next spring. Construction should take six-eight months, according to Mr. Hart.


St Mary Grade School Converted to Grandview Lofts



A plan to convert a former Catholic school on Mt. Washington into a 34-unit loft apartment building is moving forward.

Mindful Grandview LLC, run by Dustin Jones and Jeffrey Sorbara, the owners of Mindful Brewing in Castle Shannon, will seek final approval for their project from the Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday, January 26.

In 2018, Mindful Grandview purchased the former Bishop Leonard-St. Mary of the Mount Academy building at 115 Bigham St. and Sullivan Hall — an adjoining church social property at 133 Bigham St. — for $1.2 million, according to the Allegheny County real estate website.

Jones anticipates receiving approval from city planners and says renovation of the school building could begin this spring.

“We’re very excited,” Jones says. “The view is amazing. We don’t have any plans for the other building yet, with everything that’s going on with COVID. We don’t have any idea what’s going to happen with the restaurant industry, but we’ll see what the [Biden] administration does. We’re trying to be optimistic.”

The four-story building would become Grandview Lofts, with studio, one- and two-bedroom units for rent. They’ll be priced at market rate, Jones says, though they haven’t set the price yet.

The school building has been vacant since it closed in 2012 and an earlier plan to convert the building to condominiums did not happen. The church itself is located two blocks away on Grandview Avenue.

Mindful Grandview is working on the project with Gregory Newman and Michael Bliss of Way architecture + design partners and Sean Naylor, a civil engineer with Red Swing Group in Monroeville. They first briefed the Planning Commission about the project on January 12.

The building’s ground-level gymnasium would be transformed into an entryway and lobby, business and fitness centers, a property manager’s office, tenant and bike storage, mechanical areas, and an ADA tenant apartment.

The three floors of classrooms above would become apartments, with lounge space and laundry rooms. A new rooftop deck would provide residents with 360-degree views of Downtown, the Monongahela River, the North Side, and Mt. Washington. To ensure that the guardrails don’t interrupt the views, they’ll be fitted with glass panels.

“Most of the exterior scope is restorative in nature, with cleaning of existing brick and stone trim,” the developers note in their presentation for final approval. “New alterations are limited to the new entry vestibule on the east side of the building, within [a] screened parking lot, and the new roof deck structures, which enclose fire stair extensions and [an] elevator for accessibility to the new roof deck itself.”

Mindful Grandview and Way architecture began a community outreach process last January and have since received approvals for the project from the Mount Washington Community Development Corporation, Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire and the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment. The developers have promised to meet neighbors’ requirements that include sound abatement and landscaping.


                                 renovated Carnegie Library on Mount Washington 

                                                                                                 

      Click on the link below for a mini-Tour:                                                                

     https://youtu.be/O5VN_MrhDOs 


  The Mount Washington library is the 18th and final neighborhood branch in the Pittsburgh library system to be renovated through its Neighborhood Library Revitalization Program, which began in 2002. The white building — built in 1900 through industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s largesse — is highly visible on Grandview Avenue and sits behind one of the famed overlooks

      The $4.05 million construction project  added 46% more space and provided ADA accessibility for the first time, with a ramp entryway from the street and an elevator, according to a news release.  “A lot of respect was paid to the original Carnegie-built location and the architecture,” said Carlton Stout, assistant director or neighborhood libraries. “Folks will see the front desk they know and love. They will see the phone booth, the woodwork. The addition is new, fresh and bright in its own way. It’s a great mix of the two.” 

        An additional 2,721 square feet allows for distinct spaces by age group. The addition has larger space for children, and a former basement meeting room has been transformed into an area for teens. Another key improvement was the addition of energy-efficient heating, cooling and lighting systems. The building previously had no permanent air conditioning. The project also provided an outdoor patio and fenced in yard that can be used as a programming space as well as a large meeting room and small conference room for community use. “I can just imagine once we get back to full tilt, we’ll be able to have story times outside and programming outside room for community use.  

St Mary's Grad Wins Prestigious Awards
Big shoutout to Tom Lehner, Class of'64! Tom won first place in the National Veterans CreativeArts Competition in two categories for spoken word and poetry. This was the first win for a Pittsburgh veteran. Click on the link below to see one of the presentations:

       The former Bishop Leonard-St. Mary of the Mount Academy and St. Mary social hall have changed hands.
PITTSBURGH, PA - An old elementary school and church social hall on a prime piece of Mt. Washington real estate have been sold for $1.2 million, and the future of the properties could involve an upscale brewery and restaurant.
The former Bishop Leonard-St. Mary of the Mount Academy at the corner of Grandview Avenue and Bigham Street was sold to Mindful Grandview LLC, according to the Allegheny County real estate website
Mindful Grandview also has purchased the adjoining property at 133 Bigham Street, the site of Sullivan Hall, the St. Mary of the Mount church social hall. The church, a Pittsburgh landmark located two blocks from the old school on Grandview, can be seen miles away because of its location atop Mt. Washington.
According to Pennsylvania Department of State Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, Mindful Grandview was organized by Dustin Jones and Jeffrey Sorbara. Since January 2017, the pair have owned and operated Mindful Brewing Company on Library Road in Castle Shannon.
Located in a former McGinnis Sisters Grocery Store, Mindful Brewery contains a brewery, a restaurant and bar with 70 beers on tap and a bottle shop stocking more than 1,000 different beers.
Patch's attempts to reach Jones and Sorbara regarding their plans for the properties via phone, email and social media were unsuccessful.
The school building sits on a 42,364 square-foot lot that is designated as commercial, according to the county real estate website. Sullivan Hall, which sits on a 2,600 square-foot lot next to the school and also would make a good site for a brewpub, also is designated commercial on the county website.
Bishop Leonard-St. Mary of the Mount Academy, known simply as St. Mary for most of its decades-long history, was a K-8 school that closed in 2012. Plans to transform the building into condominiums were unveiled in 2014 but failed to materialize.
For several years, St. Mary has been planning to build a new social hall on a vacant lot across the street from the church on Grandview

                                                                        
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                          New home being built at the corner of
                                  McCardle and Grandview

                                                  Which home would you prefer?

                                                                         Old Style
                                                                    Modern Style



                      New Home Being Built at Plymouth and Grandview

                                                                             


                      New Building planned for where the Edge once stood:


               Developer awarded grant to build Grandview Avenue hotel in Mount Washington

        https://patch.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh/amp/27520728/hotel-hopes-rise-again-mt-washington


                                             Before and After

                                                  
                                                  

           
                   



 From left Joan Kuzel, IHM Sister Delia Marie McNeirney, Circle of Grace Leader, Madonna Smith, Sister Ellen Maroney IHM President, Paul Wilt, Head of Alumni Association who presented the Plaque, Jane O`neill Director of IHM Associate Relationship, Peggy Testa, Maureen Kitner, and IHM Sister Joanne Madden; not pictured Debbie Pirring.








         

                                                                     
              St. Mary's oldest alum, Eleanor Halloran, turns 100





Eleanor Halloran of Mount Washington is clearly from healthy Irish stock. The 1935 graduate of St. Mary’s of the Mount is the school’s oldest living alumnus. She’s outlived her famous cousin, Monsignor Charles Owen Rice, “the Labor Priest” who died at age 97.
She was born on Jan. 15, 1917, in New York City and moved to Pittsburgh with her parents, Joseph and Ida Rice, her younger sister, Lucille, and several relatives, including two boys who would become monsignors — Charles Owen and his brother, Patrick.
Although she received a four-year scholarship to a small Catholic college, she attended Business Training College (now Park Point University) in Downtown and received a secretarial certificate.
She worked as a legal secretary for the Internal Revenue Service in the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax until 1945, when she married World War II veteran William Halloran. They had four children: Richard and Michael (both deceased), Rita Gray of Mount Washington, with whom she currently lives, and Robert Halloran of Whitehall.
After her husband died in 1955, Mrs. Halloran returned to work at the IRS and retired in 1982 after 35 years of service. A longtime member of the Mount Washington Women's Club, she served as its president for a number of years.
After retirement, she traveled throughout the United States and to Europe and the Caribbean. She loves to discuss politics, history, fashion, food and film and prefers a slice of cake and a cup of tea to any medicine. Mrs. Halloran has five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren,  and she celebrated her birthday in January with family in the house she has lived in for 85 years.


            The moon today was unlike any other since 1948

                                                              (click on the article twice to read it)) 

                      It also shines over our own little piece of the world 
                               
     



                                     


    Ken Gianella receives the 2016 Alumnus of the Year Award from President Paul Wilt


This year's Mike Awards turned out to be one of the major events of the Mt Washington social calendar. Over 200 people were at the Lemont Restaurant to honor this years honorees.

  v   2016 Saint Mary of the Mount Alumnus of the Year from the Class of 1964 :
                                                Ken Gianella

  v   The Mount Washington  Hall of Fame 2016 inductees:
      
                                              Frank “ Horse”  Moreno
                                              Neil Stoernell
                                              Jim Nolan

  v  The recipients of the 2016 Duquesne University Michael J. Creighton Student Resource         Award :
              Travis Jenkins,sponsored by Megan Carrick and John Hogle
      Margaret McCaffrey – sponsored by James McCaffrey, Class of 1977
     Jacey Schott – sponsored by  Mary Lou Schott, St  Mary of the Mt Church





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New book offers an open window into Cardinal Wuerl's life


“It is a beautiful, rewarding life of service to God’s people and trying to stay close
 to the Lord,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl shared in observance of his 50th jubilee of priesthood.
 Born on Nov. 12, 1940, in Pittsburgh, he attended St. Mary of the Mount elementary
and high school.He was ordained on Dec. 17, 1966, by Bishop Francis Reh at St. Peter’s Basilica
in Rome. Just 19 years later, on Jan. 6, 1986, Pope John Paul II ordained him a
bishop in that same basilica.


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3 comments:

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  2. Congratulations, Ken, on your alumni of the year award. You deserve it.
    Lorraine Legler Forster (1964)

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  3. Congats To Kenny G. An honor well deserved

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