DOWNTOWN BELLEVUE CALENDAR OF EVENTS    

Thanks to the Downtown First business directory, it has never been easier or faster to find what you are looking for in your downtown. Downtown First provides a free and easy-to-use online AND printable business directory for your downtown as well as approximately 20 other business districts in the region.

You can search for businesses by:

• Downtown: including your downtown and many nearby communities!
• Business Type: such as antiques or restaurants and cafes
• Keywords: such as the business name or a specific services you are looking for

Downtown First is leading the movement to support local businesses by making it possible for you to narrow your search to include only local, independent businesses....and making it easier for you to support them!

Remember to "put your money where your house is" by supporting your downtown businesses...first!

Help to market the vacant and/or available properties in your downtown with TCA's FREE DowntownProperties.net poster! Placing the colorful DowntownProperties.net poster in your window will let everyone passing by know that it is available, whether your property is vacant or still being occupied.    

Most importantly, the poster can direct those interested in your property to DowntownProperties.net, where they can access important information about the property, such as contact information, address square footage, a photograph, community demographics, and more!      

If you are interested in a free poster for your property, please contact Town Center Associates at 724-728-9400 or tca@towncenter.info.

Good things are growing in our Allegheny Together communities! In 2010, Allegheny County Economic Development started a community-food gardening initiative called Allegheny Grows. In partnership with Grow Pittsburgh and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy this program provides technical, organizational and planning assistance-along with materials and supplies-to communities interested in getting a community gardening effort off the ground. With community driven enthusiasm and participation, we assist residents with growing their own food, generating a green civic space for long-term use, creating a platform for civic participation and economic development activity, re-imagining vacant underutilized land, and stimulating conversations about local sustainability.    

The program targets low-to-moderate income populations that demonstrate the following: an appropriate gardening site, strong community leadership, interested participants, and willingness to learn and work together. This is a two year program providing intensive start-up services and materials in the first year and continuation planning and seedlings in the second.    

Important Information:

Applications available August 15th, 2011 (anticipated) at this web address: http://economic.alleghenycounty.us/applications/CommunityApp.doc.    

A mandatory information session is to be held in September.

Applications are due: September 30, 2011.   

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

You are reading the Bellevue 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.