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Bakery Row Community Meeting — Thursday, 11/8

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Well it’s been just over a year and we have been busy studying and meeting with our neighbors to gain additional input on the visioning work you helped create last October.

Join us Thursday, November 8th, from 6-9pm at the Reizenstein School Cafeteria.

Read the full flyer

Bakery Row Forum and Planning Committee

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Skip Schwab (ELDI) and Rob Pfaffman (Pfaffman and Associates) are getting the community planning process for “Bakery Row” geared up again. Rob writes:

Another key part of our planning team is Jim Hartling of Urban Partners Philadelphia, who is looking at the market and giving us important feedback about where things are heading in the real estate market. Last Fall a blog was set up by Rob Stephany that gives you some sense of the process and feedback.

http://eastlibertypost.com/bakery-row-forum/

Based on meetings with the steering committee, developer interviews and data analysis, Jim and I are beginning to gear up to develop new vision documents that build on last year’s community meeting and market research.

We will be focusing (while not ignoring of course all of the other ideas developed last fall) on a couple of key areas based on the initial recommendations of Urban Partners:

  • Repairing the streetscape connection between downtown East Liberty and Penn Avenue developments (Bakery Row)
  • Focus design efforts on the Giant Eagle Shakespeare Street Development to create a better designed mixed use urban development transformation. (need a new gas station site to incent GE!)
  • Work with Club One to explore the redesign of the street edge of the facility.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Minutes from 9/18 Community Meeting

Monday, October 8th, 2007

LIGHT UP NIGHT is SATURDAY, December 1 from 6-9 pm
Assignments…
Luminaries-William, Linda, Roger, Nanci
Horse and Carriage - Greg
Cookie Table - Christine
Restaurant notification- Dawn, Linda
Block Party Permit - Jessica, Marybeth
Santa - Marybeth
Ice Sculptor- Roger
Fires - Dennis
Signs/Flyers - Greg
Lighting - Greg
Choir - Elaine?
St Bede Volunteers - Linda
Volunteer list with time slots for set up, table wathcing, clean up - ?
50/50 raffle - Nanci
Giant Steel Jack O’Lantern - Greg

We will have an SPBO table where we can sell PBZ stickers, and we can hold a 50/50 raffle.
The carriage rides will be $2 per person/$5 per family.

Set up will begin at 4:30 pm.
BOARD CHANGE
After Light Up Night (December 1) Derek will be stepping down as President. In January, we will hold an SPBO meeting to talk about officers, by-laws, volunteers and the state of the organization.
NEXT MEETING
The next SPBO meeting is October 9 at 8pm at Dennis’ (7713 Reynolds, corner of LeRoi and Reynold)

Sterrett Parent School Community Council (PSCC/PTO) Meeting

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

From Sarah Sumpter, Principal:

Let me extend an invitation to our monthly Parent School Community Council(PSCC/PTO) meeting that will occur on Monday, October 22nd at 7:00PM if any neighborhood reps would like to attend.

Please let us know if you’d like to attend on behalf of the SPBO. We don’t want to crowd the meeting, so we need to limit/manage the number of folks who might attend. Please send a note to derek@southpointbreeze.org so we can coordinate any planned participants.

Community Meeting

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Tuesday, October 9th @ 8pm
Dennis’ House (corner of LeRoi and Reynolds)

This meeting is open to the entire neighborhood.

The agenda includes:

  • Light Up Night planning
  • Sterrett School Safety Discussion + Meeting Planning
  • more…

See you there!

Community Meeting

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Tuesday, September 18th @ 8pm
Dennis’ House (corner of LeRoi and Reynolds)

This meeting is open to the entire neighborhood.

The agenda (still be planned)includes:

  • Block Captain assignments
  • Light Up Night planning
  • more…

See you there!

Community Meeting

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Monday, August 13th @ 8pm
Dennis’ House (corner of LeRoi and Reynolds)

This meeting is open to the entire neighborhood.

The planned agenda items include:

  • Block Captain street assignments
  • Bonfire Task Force update, event planning, and task assignments
  • PBZ sticker distribution
  • more…

See you there!

Here are the minutes from our last meeting (10 July).

Community Meeting

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Tuesday, July 10th @ 8pm, at Make Your Mark Coffeehouse

This meeting is open to the entire neighborhood.

The planned agenda items include:

  • commencement of our Block Captain Initiative
  • formation of the Bonfire Task Force
  • more…

See you there!

Shadyside Action Coalition Town Hall Meeting

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Shadyside’s Changing Landscape

Topics
Bakery Row Planning, Bridge Development, McCook Mansion Proposal; Election of New Board; light refreshments to follow.

Date and Time
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. This is the “Annual Meeting” of the Shadyside Action Coalition.

Location
Winchester Thurston Lower School Auditorium, 555 Morewood Ave., Shadyside (enter on Ellsworth Ave.)

Community Meeting

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Tuesday, May 1st @ 8pm, at Make Your Mark Coffeehouse

We’re holding a meeting to kick off the next several activities of the SPBO and report on neighborhood happenings.

This meeting is open to the entire neighborhood.

The planned agenda items include:

  1. open offices in the organization, time for some folks to retire, new folks to step up, and replace those that have moved on
  2. Fundraiser 2007: a short term project, planned date of 6/17/2007 — 8 weeks, share in an event being planned by Dennis Inserra
  3. Bonfire (where to have it, should we have it, make bonfire a summer event, can we still have it when the new building is done)?
  4. Light Up Night (combine with bonfire?)
  5. House Tour (help from Shadyside folks)
  6. Sterrett construction update
  7. Fundraiser idea #2 : SPB stickers (like the OBX ones)
  8. Fundraiser idea #3 : SPB t-shirts

See you there!