5TH AVENUE CORPORATE CENTER

Our Featured Downtown Recognition Recipient

Last spring, Relizathan Properties, LLC began a renovation project to the property located at 1004 5th Avenue. A wonderful façade renovation was completed by the fall of 2012 to the storefront. The storefront was outfitted with a new front entryway, new trim work, a planter, and new signage. The General Contractor for this revitalization project was Sugar Creek Construction-Kurt Bortmess. Before and after photos shown above highlight the work that was accomplished.

Relizathan Properties took part in a façade program offered through the Allegheny Together program. Eric Gaber, Principle of Relizathan Properties says of the program, "It is a great catalyst. It doesn't cover the overall cost obviously, but at the end of day, it motivates you to spend money on a project that you probably should have done anyway." He also noted that the process for participating in the program was much easier than he anticipated.

The building is called 5th Avenue Corporate Center. There are nine entities housed in the facility ranging from an Executive Search firm, Aviation Wholesaler, Financial Planner, Information Broker for legal testing, Photographer, Builder, Counselor, Insurance/Business/Law Expert and a Hair Salon. There is still one unit available.

Eric also explains, "The building was created to afford small businesses an opportunity to be established in a corporate environment that has a tremendous geographic location (cross-section of  I-79 & Route 51), within 25 minutes of the Airport, most importantly, with rent and expenses at the most competitive in the region."

The Coraopolis Business District Advisory Committee is pleased to feature 5th Avenue Corporate Center and to congratulate Eric and Relizathan Properties on a terrific façade renovation!

JOSEPH DIVITO, SR.

Our Featured Downtown Recognition Recipient

He married Diana Nichay in 1961 and they have resided on Montour Street since then.  He is the proud father of Mary Anne DiVito Meade (Dan) and Joseph V. DiVito, Jr. (Karen), and the doting grandfather of Joseph V. III, Marco and Francesca DiVito and Maura and Connor Meade.

Joe worked at Shenango, Inc. on Neville Island for 35 years until they closed in 1990.  After a year, he decided that he wasn't suited to retirement and he then worked for 15 years as a courier at Quest Diagnostics. 

Joe has been an active and involved member of the Coraopolis community. Twelve years on Coraopolis Borough Council were followed by one four year term as Mayor. He is also the founder and President of the Coraopolis Historical Society.  In this role he spearheaded the publication of two successful historical books about Coraopolis.  The first, "The Centennial History of the Borough of Coraopolis" was published in 1986.  It was a collection of photos and family histories submitted by families in Coraopolis.   The second is "Coraopolis" and is one of the "Images of America" series by Arcadia Publishing and is a collection of historical photographs, published in 2007.  This book is still available. 

Through his efforts, the past editions of the Coraopolis Record have been put on microfilm, and through a grant, there is a machine available to view these newspapers.

Joe thoroughly enjoys Coraopolis history and has recently obtained a room at the Coraopolis Memorial Library for the memorabilia that the Historical Society has accumulated.  They have a great deal of work to do to organize these things and are always ready to welcome new members.

The Coraopolis BDAC thanks Joe for his dedication and commitment to our community.

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February 8

9 AM

Valentine Greeting Card Craft

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February 9

2 to 3 PM

American Girl Club

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February 13

6:30 to 7:30 PM

Paper Airplane Contest

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February 25

6:30 to 7:30 PM

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 Coraopolis 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! 

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You are reading the Coraopolis 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.