BROADWAY MOTOR CARS

FOX'S PIZZA DEN

JOYCE'S HOMEMADE COOKIES

PARKWAY THEATER

THERESA'S ITALIAN BAKERY

Our Featured Downtown Recognition Recipients

WARMLY WELCOMING OUR NEW BUSINESSES!

We are pleased to welcome the following new businesses to our downtown and wish them the best on behalf of our community...

Sarah's Second Chance Vintage Boutique

601 Chartiers Avenue

700 Pizza & Gyro House

700 Broadway Avenue

412-331-7000

OUR NEW MUNICIPAL WEBSITE

We are excited to announce that there is a new municipal website. It is currently a work in progress. The site, www.stowetwp.com, is a central point for residents and potential residents to locate Township information, as well as discover Stowe's rich history.

Here you will find information on important topics such as our tax office, ordinances, permits, police and fire departments, public works, and many more items beneficial to living, working, and being a part of the Stowe community.

Please visit us at www.stowetwp.com as our site unfolds!

STOWE TOWNSHIP SELECTED FOR CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY'S "SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES COURSE"

Stowe Township, through our participation in the Allegheny Together Program and a special application made by Homestead 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.

BUY LOCAL EVERY DAY 

Have you pledged your support of local, downtown businesses? If not, challenge yourself and your friends to do your shopping at locally owned Allegheny County businesses. Sign up to buy local by taking the Downtown Stowe Pledge today. You can pledge to shop your downtown and any or all Allegheny County downtowns every day. With the difficulties facing local economies, your local purchases can make a difference to the vitality of your hometown and of Allegheny County.

"Independent retailers in cities with active "Buy Local" or "Think Local First" campaigns reported stronger holiday sales than those in cities without such campaigns. These campaigns have been launched by local business alliances in more than 100 cities and towns. Independent retailers in these cities reported an average increase in holiday sales of 3%, compared to 1% for those in cities without an active Buy Local initiative." http://www.ilsr.org/holiday-sales-increase-independent-businesses-national-survey-finds/

Pledge your love and buy local by joining the Downtown First Movement! It's a gift to the whole community!

PROMOTING YOUR DOWNTOWN PROPERTY 

 

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!

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR BUSINESSES FROM PHLF

STAY UP TO DATE ON DOWNTOWN STOWE
With Our E-Newsletter  

You are reading the Stowe FOCUS: your 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.