Music To My Ear features product lines from Grado, Beyerdynamic, Sonos, Simaudio, Goldenear Technology, Peachtree Audio, Rega, Music Hall, BDI, van den Hul, and others, offering you the finest array of headphones, integrated amplifiers, speakers, CD players, turntables, cartridges, phono pre-amps, cables, audiophile vinyl, home theatre furniture, and more -- all under one roof at 21 Brilliant Avenue.

We offer comfortable listening stations, where, before purchasing, music aficionados can audition a unique collection of some of the finest audio components in the hi-fi marketplace. www.musictomyear.com

Aspinwall Borough, through our participation in the Allegheny Together Program and a special application made by Aspinwall Borough, has been selected to participate in Carnegie Mellon University's, "Sustainable Communities Course." 

  

Over the course of a 10-week period, a team of 3-4 graduate students with backgrounds in public policy, management, business, architecture, planning, engineering, and other areas will research, analyze, develop community sustainability opportunities, solve problems, or move a project forward. While the students gain valuable hands-on experience, our community can benefit from fresh viewpoints, creativity, analysis using advanced tools, models, and techniques, communications, synthesis of plans, and insight for using new media forms in solving community problems. 

This collaboration helps communities to explore their sustainability-related needs and challenges with the intended outcomes of connecting them with related expertise and resources. Sustainable development involves a way of thinking and pursuing innovation that continually asks questions, connects the dots, and makes course corrections to make things better today and over the long haul. This requires a systems approach for identifying challenges and lasting solutions. Systems approaches look for how our lives have rich interconnections with economic, environmental, and social factors and find ways of integrating these interconnections in new ways. As a result, the process of sustainable development takes hold where economic, social equity-related and environmental needs are simultaneously addressed. 

 

We can help you promote YOUR downtown property. Vacant and/or available buildings and storefronts in
your downtown are promoted through Town Center Associates' DowntownProperties.net website, the
only of its kind in our region.

The DowntownProperties.net program is intended to encourage potential business owners to consider YOUR downtown when looking for a location for their business. If you have a property available for sale or lease, you can help promote it for FREE through this program. If you have a business you'd like to ask to consider locating in your downtown, you can email property listings to them directly from the site. Interested business owners can sign up to receive a notification any time a property becomes available in your downtown.  

 

These great tools are available to help you promote your downtown property through DowntownProperties.net:

• FREE color poster to draw attention to your available property
• FREE listing on DowntownProperties.net with a photograph
• Email Notification, making it easy for you to forward your property listing to anyone interested
• Business District Demographics
• Property Mapping
• Links to town resources and town photos

If you have an available property that is not currently listed on DowntownProperties.net, please let us know by sending an email to tca@towncenter.info. We would be happy to add your property! 

Your municipality has an online toolkit at www.alleghenytogether.com full of resources to assist in your business district's initiatives. One resource that could be particularly useful in understanding your community market is the online and printable Demographic Reports. You can check out your own town's reports by selecting your town's homepage and then selecting "Demographic Report" on the left side menu. You'll find critical marketing and demographic information, such as the population within a five, ten and fifteen minute drive time radius, income and age statistics and much more.

 

Another tool in the online toolkit allows you to sort your downtown properties in the "Properties & Photos" database by various categories such as "Property Owner," "Property Address," "Tax Parcel," and "Occupant."

 

Check out your Downtown Database at www.alleghenytogether.com for these and other great tools for information about your downtown business district.

 

Great businesses capture foot traffic, maintain their building's historical integrity, and are intensely focused on customer service. PHLF is offering technical assistance to business owners to help them make their businesses the best they can be.

 

We'll match you up with an interior designer, who can help you draw in more foot traffic through an eye-catching window display, improve the interior layout of your space, and offer suggestions for new paint colors or window treatments. This is a great opportunity for your business to get recommendations from a design professional, free of charge.

 

Have you wanted to improve the look of your building, but not sure where to start? We can discuss improvements with you that will make your business stand out (in a good way!) and generate more foot traffic.  We can work with any budget, big or small, to make a positive visual impact.

 

To set up an appointment, please contact David Farkas at 412-471-5808. We look forward to hearing from you.