DEC 07
In December of 2007, Elm Street Committee members Ron
Murtha and Howard Howe met with representatives from the Community
Development Program, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation,
and Town Center Associates, and walked the Elm Street Neighborhood
to discuss potential projects and take pictures. This information
will be used by PHLF to assist with an application to DCED for
possible project funding.
JUNE 08
Our Beaver County Elm
Street project team, including
representatives from Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
(PHLF), Town Center Associates (TCA) and Community Development
Program of Beaver County, visited
Rochester
on November 29, 2007. We met with Ron Murtha. The project selected
includes historic decorative lighting, street signage, trees, and
sidewalk design standards for a one-block area on
Ohio Avenue
between Adams and Jefferson. We will soon return to meet with
Mr. Murtha and hopefully other community representatives to re-visit
the project with our consultants to determine cost estimates and
basic design ideas.
For
the latest update, please click on "Proposed Improvements" above
the aerial map at the top right of this page. Here you will
find the final Elm Street proposed project and drawings for our
community.
SEPTEMBER 09
The following is a correspondence from PHLF’s Eugene Matta
to the nine Beaver County Municipalities:
I have put in
the mail to each Municipality the following documents:
1 - Letter with the current status and information on
requirements to complete the Single Application;
2 - Pgs. 43, 44, and 45 of the DCED New Communities, Program
Guidelines, for Residential Reinvestment Grants;
3 - A copy of the Elm Street Plan for each of the nine
Municipalities, prepared by Town Center Associates with the
collaboration of The Beaver County Community Development Plan.
As you may be aware, originally I was asked to prepare one
consolidated Single Application for all nine Municipalities.
That did not work, and it was not until recently that DCED's Ed
Geiger, in consultation with his staff, decided that the proper
way of doing this was to prepare nine different Single
Applications, one for each Municipality. In my letter to you I
cite Mr. Geiger's comment and the requirements that each Single
Application must include.
The Program Guidelines I included in the
package include the specific requirements, and the Elm Street
Plan for each Municipality contain all the information needed to
meet those requirements. You need, however, review the Elm
Street Plans and update any information as needed.
I'll be happy to assist you in putting this
information together, and once we have all we need I'll prepare
the nine Single Applications. Although PA State still has no
budget, and many predict cuts that may or may not affect Elm
Street and Main Street programs, I think we should be prepared
just in case. And if not this year, given the budget foes, maybe
next or the following.
Sincerely,
Eugene Matta
Director of Real Estate & Special
Development Programs
Pittsburgh
History & Landmarks Foundation