ALLEGHENY COUNTY WELCOMES TWO NEW COMMUNITIES TO ALLEGHENY TOGETHER

CARNEGIE WELCOMES NEW BUSINESSES  

Town Center Associates (TCA) provides comprehensive support to traditional downtown-based, main street communities.  For more than 12 years, the staff at TCA has provided a professional team approach to downtown revitalization in over 25 Western Pennsylvania communities. Our firm is committed to helping build vibrant and sustainable business districts in our region.

We look forward to working with Carnegie as you enter into the Allegheny Together program. Beginning in April, we will be facilitating "Key Issue Workshops," which provide a forum for the community to discuss critical issues in your downtown in the areas of Business Development, Architecture and Design, and Community Life. In addition to providing you with an opportunity to share your insights regarding your downtown, the forums will provide you with the opportunity to learn about the Allegheny Together program. Please see the "Key Issue Workshop" article below for more information.

TCA will be with your community every step of the way throughout your participation in the Allegheny Together program. TCA will be working closely with your municipality and your community in carrying out a specific plan of action for downtown Carnegie. We provide a host of management and organizational support services to assist your community's downtown revitalization efforts, including:

    ·    Action plan support and monitoring services

    ·    Attending monthly committee meetings

    ·    Creating a website focused on the business district revitalization efforts (through www.alleghenytogether.com)

    ·    Sending out quarterly e-newsletters to keep the community informed of the effort

    ·    Developing an online database of critical information about your downtown properties

    ·    Sending out awards to recognize outstanding leaders in the revitalization effort

    ·    And much more!

Town Center Associates is excited about the addition of Carnegie to the Allegheny Together program and we look forward to working with you! For more information about TCA, please visit www.towncenter.info.

A series of three Key Issue Workshops will be held over the next few months at the Carnegie Municipal Building from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. These workshops are designed for all members of the Carnegie Community. Residents of the "greater" Carnegie area communities are also invited and encouraged to attend.

The Key Issue Workshops are being presented by Town Center Associates, in cooperation with Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, as a component of the Allegheny Together program. Allegheny Together is a serious, long-term economic development initiative of Allegheny County Economic Development to preserve and enhance the commercial business districts in Allegheny County.

These workshops will provide you with an overview of the Allegheny Together program and offer the public the opportunity to provide input on critical key issues in downtown Carnegie. This feedback is necessary in order to gain meaningful community consensus as to how you want your downtown to be shaped in the future.

Please make every effort to attend, and to let others know about this opportunity. Please RSVP at least one week prior to each workshop to Town Center Associates (TCA) at 412-577-7447 or to Mary Ellen Petro at TCA, mpetro@towncenter.info.

Key Issue Workshop #1:
Architecture and Design in Downtown Carnegie

Tuesday, April 19th

Key Issue Workshop #2:
Promoting Downtown Carnegie as the Center of Community Life

Tuesday, May 10th

Key Issue Workshop #3:
Business Development in Downtown Carnegie

Tuesday, May 31st

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) serves as a co-administrator of the Allegheny Together downtown revitalization program. In conjunction with Town Center Associates, PHLF assists local residents, business/property owners, and elected officials in implementing a long-term revitalization program designed to retain existing businesses, recruit new ones, enhance the character of the downtown area, and increase foot traffic.
 

Additionally, PHLF administers the Allegheny Restores program, a façade grant program that is open to downtown business and property owners. The goal of the program is to assist and encourage property owners and businesses to reinvest in the traditional business districts by providing matching grants and low cost financing.
 

We provide construction management services for façade projects, from developing a vision with each business owner, providing building specification sheets and drawings, and construction management for the length of the project. This ensures that quality facade restorations occur that are in keeping with the community's Design Guidelines and historic character.

PHLF provides key planning documents to each community, consisting of:

    ·    Revitalization Strategy

    ·    Market Demographics

    ·    Trade Area information

    ·    Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity Analysis

    ·    Traffic & Parking Analysis

    ·    Historic Building Inventory

    ·    Signage and Ordinance Review

    ·    Design Guidelines

Once our planning and analysis work is complete, we work with each community to advance key real estate projects, legislative items, and more.

If a business was looking for a retail storefront or office space, how would they know what is currently available for sale or lease in downtown Carnegie?  

Town Center Associates has the answer: DowntownProperties.net-an innovative new program for marketing vacant and/or available downtown properties.

The www.DowntownProperties.net website lets you search for available commercial properties in nearly 30 area downtowns. Each listing on the site includes a recent property photo and critical contact information for those who may be interested in the property. Additionally, resources such as demographic information on your community, as well as mapping to each listed property are available on the site.

Other innovative features of www.DowntownProperties.net include the ability to sign up to receive a free email each time a new property becomes available, which makes it easy for prospective businesses to become aware of new opportunities in downtown Carnegie...and much more!

If you own a downtown property that is available for sale or lease, please contact Town Center Associates at 412-577-7447 or email us at tca@towncenter.info. Our friendly staff will make sure that your property is placed on www.DowntownProperties.net - helping to promote your property at NO CHARGE to you! When you call or write, you can also ask about our FREE posters that will help promote your property!

Check out www.DowntownProperties.net today to see how this helpful tool can work towards helping us recruit new businesses to downtown Carnegie.

STAY UP TO DATE ON DOWNTOWN CARNEGIE
With Our Quarterly E-Newsletter  

You are reading the Carnegie 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.