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Downtown Recognition Award
Sweetie Sweetie Bakery
1701 Monongahela Avenue 
Located at the corner of Schoyer and Monongahela Avenue, Sweetie Sweetie Bakery is sure to delight the sweet tooth of any Swissvale resident.Owned by Dave Green, Sweetie Sweetie was located on S. Braddock Avenue in Regent Square for six years. Dave moved his bakery to Swissvale at the end of October 2007.
Orders can be placed by stopping in a week or two ahead of time. Dave can accommodate a myriad of requests including: Weddings, Birthdays, Holy Communions, Graduations, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.He also bakes cookie trays, fancy pastry trays, and breakfast pastry trays. In the bakery customers can find an assortment of muffins, Danish, coffee cakes, puff pastry items and cookies, and whatever else Dave has time to bake on a given day. Sweetie Sweetie also carries an assortment of Breadworks bread (which can be ordered in advance).
Hours are Friday 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and Sunday from 8:00 a.m. until there isn't a crumble remaining, usually around 1:00 p.m.
The next time you are passing by don't just smell the sweetness in the air stop in and enjoy the heavenly goodness Sweetie Sweetie has to offer. |
Upcoming Events
Senior Center Annual Holiday Party 
December 18
Enjoy Christmas music, hot chocolate, eggnog and cookies
1:00 PM
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Swissvale Volunteer Fire Department Fundraiser
- Our Volunteer Fire Department is selling 2010 Entertainment Books for $20
- Burnt Offerings Cookbook is for sale for $10
The annual fund drive is underway and the VFD says, "Help us so we can help you."
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DowntownProperties.Net
Introducing TCA's New Business Recruitment Tool Are you looking for a storefront to buy or lease for your business location? Are you a downtown property owner looking to sell or lease your building? Be sure to check out www.downtownproperties.net. Town Center Associate's innovative new business recruitment program includes this website, which is one hundred percent devoted to properties for sale or lease in your downtown's central business district, as well as other local business districts. DowntownProperties.net features the vacant/available downtown properties in your business district complete with:
- Property Photos
- Property Owner Contact Information
- Address Information
- The ability to add additional information to each listing, such as realtor contact information or details about the property
- Features that enable you to email listings to interested parties, map listings, as well as print listings
More than just a website, the DowntownProperties.net program offers key benefits to the municipality. Benefits include having a central source of property contact information, and a readily available resource to attract new businesses-by marketing vacancies and available properties.
Additionally, TCA will provide property owners with a free, colorful DowntownProperties.net poster to put in their vacant or available storefront window to demonstrate that the building is available.
If you have a vacant or available downtown property that is not currently listed on the site, let us know. Just send an email to tca@towncenter.info, or call us at 412-577-7447 or 724-728-0500. |
PHLF Updates
The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) is involved in main street revitalizations across Southwestern Pennsylvania. As we come across model examples in this work, we will make an effort to share them with our Allegheny Together partners. It may be that you will see an opportunity to take one of these ideas and tailor it to the circumstances that exist in your community.
In this issue, we want to highlight an investment trust that nine local women have set up in Leechburg, which is part of a State adopted regional main street program. The trust, known as Leechburg Investment Projects (LIPS), is a consortium set up by the women to develop viable businesses in downtown Leechburg, get them up and running on solid footing and then sell them. Sales proceeds will go back into the fund enabling them to focus on another business. LIPS intends to repeat this process until all of Leechburg's store fronts are filled.
The nine investors each put in $2,000, which has enabled the fund to launch its first business: Books and Beans, a used bookstore and coffee shop. The investor group includes a wealth of experience in setting up and operating successful small-scale retail. They are drawing on this experience, and putting in a lot of sweat equity, as they work toward a mid-October grand opening. Books and Beans will offer Presto George coffee & teas, gourmet breakfast and lunch items, free WIFI, a strong selection of used books, and audio book rentals.
LIPs is a great example of just how much a small group of committed volunteers can accomplish with limited funds. This includes:
- Creating new jobs.
- Rehabilitating old, empty storefronts in historic buildings.
- Diversifying the business mix in town.
- Involving experienced business-people to act as mentors for new owners.
- Building stronger relationships as a part of the project work.
If you are interested in learning more about LIPs to see if this model might work for your downtown, please call Ethan Raup at PHLF at 412 471 5808. | |
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Downtown Swissvale E-Newsletter
You are reading the Swissvale FOCUS: your quarterly downtown e-newsletter. By using e-newsletters instead of print newsletters, we can send the information about our downtown revitalization efforts to a greater number of people and save paper--a win for the community and the environment!
To receive your copy of the e-newsletter via email, simply send an email to tca@towncenter.info and indicate your email address, as well as the name of the town or towns for which you'd like to receive the e-newsletters. You can also call Town Center Associates to sign up at 412-577-7447.
Please also take a moment to forward this email along to your friends, colleagues, family and neighbors, and encourage them to sign up today! This will help to inform (and involve) more citizens about the revitalization efforts taking place in our downtown.
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| This e-newsletter was created by Town Center Asociates for the Allegheny Together Program of Allegheny County Economic Development. For more information about the Allegheny Together program, please visit www.alleghenytogether.com. | |
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