Pittsburgh
Pitt Football brings back classic script helmet design (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
Heinz Field facing growing no-show problem (CBS Pittsburgh)
Video series: The scariest haunted houses in the Pittsburgh area (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Fire at Flight 93 Memorial raises questions about the National Park Service's ability to protect historic artifacts (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
Natural History Museum reaches out to over 21 crowd (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Google thanks Polio vaccine developer, Jonas Salk with a Google Doodle (Washington Post)
Pioneering Penn Ave alternative arts venue, Garfield Art Works closing in December (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
Greensburg
Restored Greensburg Civil War statue may move out of courthouse soon
Cleveland
Top Cleveland dive and neighborhood bars: Photo Gallery (Cleveland.com)
Why is Baldwin Wallace University ashamed to say it's near Cleveland? (Diggingpitt)
Devo releases recording of 1977 Cleveland show as a live album (Consequence of Sound)
Cleveland theater company adopts Night of the Living Dead for the stage (Cleveland Scene)
Making beautiful music in a Cleveland retirement community (CBS Evening News)
Akron
Akron musicians break in new downtown jazz club (Akron Beacon Journal)
Ohio
Spotify study shows Ohio State students listen to the most classical music (The Lantern)
Chicago
95 problems: A walk down the South Side's most notorious "stroad" (Streetsblog Chicago)
Detroit
Renovation work starts on Detroit's huge, historic Packard plant complex
Other Urbanism News
How asset foreiture allows cops to steal from citizens (Reason)
The most expensive housing markets in the U.S. are also the most Liberal (The Washington Post)
Is 21 days enough for Ebola quarantine? (Five Thirty Eight Science)
World Series is on and everybody's watching...football (New York Times)
Redfin buys Walk Score (Wired)
Real Estate network sues Zillow, claims the company stole trade secrets (Puget Sound Business Journal)
California community suffers as wells dry up in drought (Yahoo News)
New urbanisim hits the suburbs, as pricey condos multiply on Long Island (Wall Street Journal)
The death of the suburban corporate campus (Better Cities and Towns)
Florida's Department of Transportation doesn't seem to know its own rules (Streetsblog)
Why cities need localists (The American Conservative)
Why Conservatives must engage urbanism (The American Conservative)
Is America finally saying no to junk food? (CBS Moneywatch)
Other Arts and Architecture News
You can legally busk in New York's subways but a cop might arrest you anyway. (Reason)
Frieze Art Fair: where great refinement meets harrowing vulgarity (The Spectator)
Frank Gehry, gives critics the finger- literally (Arch Daily)
11 at risk American art landscapes (Art Net)
What to do with Uruguay's massive shipwrecked Nazi bronze? (Art Net)
Subtle street art: 27 easy to overlook urban enhancements (Web Urbanist)
Affordable housing plan threatens Parisian street art haven (Hyperallergic)
750-year old city founded by Genghis Khan's grandson is unearthed (Hyperallergic)
Showing posts with label Greensburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greensburg. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Plans For The Arts Take Shape In Greensburg
In spite of it being home to the important Westmoreland Museum; I'm gonna have to fess up to never having spent time in Greensburg. On each train trip to NYC, I look out the window and think-- wow-pretty town there!(that's gonna change)
Finally, Greensburg is getting it together and using a number of planned and existing arts and educational assets to create a low key but thriving downtown.
Yesterday, the press conference officially announcing the details of LECOM at Seton Hill was held at the University. How exciting this is! The nation's largest medical school has partnered with SHU! This means we will be seeing Seton Hill evolving in many exciting ways. I have lived in the Greensburg area all my life. I remember shopping "Downtown Greensburg" at Troutman's and Royer's with my Grandmother. Since those days,businesses would close one by one as the malls and other large developments would draw business away from town. It was only about 10 years ago that I walked through town and unless you were an attorney or working at the courthouse; downtown was pretty much a ghost town. Recently, under the vision of Barb Ciampini, Greensburg City Planning Director, Karl Eisaman, Mayor , Steve Gifford of GCDC (click to read Steve's vision for Greensburg) and other city officials and committees, there has been a major upswing. A little over a year ago, I looked around at the beginning transformation of the city and predicted that someday soon it would be a extraordinary cultural and arts center. Already home to DV8 Espress Bar and Gallery, Stage Right School and Theater Company, Westmoreland Museum of American Art , Pottery Playhouse, St. Clair Concerts in the Park, and so much more. In addition, the new $21 Million Seton Hill Performing Arts Center will be opening 2009 right in the heart of the Greensburg Cultural District. Due to the increased enrollment in Seton Hill's outstanding art program, Seton Hill will house the art department's painting studio in the Troutman's building. So...this all leads to a renaissance of Downtown Greensburg and Seton Hill University. Who knows...maybe someday, we will refer to "Upper Campus" and "Lower Campus" as we grow and are widely recognized for our exemplary medical programs with our Physician's Assistant Program and LECOM's Medical School, as well as our paramount performing and visual arts programs!
Finally, Greensburg is getting it together and using a number of planned and existing arts and educational assets to create a low key but thriving downtown.
Yesterday, the press conference officially announcing the details of LECOM at Seton Hill was held at the University. How exciting this is! The nation's largest medical school has partnered with SHU! This means we will be seeing Seton Hill evolving in many exciting ways. I have lived in the Greensburg area all my life. I remember shopping "Downtown Greensburg" at Troutman's and Royer's with my Grandmother. Since those days,businesses would close one by one as the malls and other large developments would draw business away from town. It was only about 10 years ago that I walked through town and unless you were an attorney or working at the courthouse; downtown was pretty much a ghost town. Recently, under the vision of Barb Ciampini, Greensburg City Planning Director, Karl Eisaman, Mayor , Steve Gifford of GCDC (click to read Steve's vision for Greensburg) and other city officials and committees, there has been a major upswing. A little over a year ago, I looked around at the beginning transformation of the city and predicted that someday soon it would be a extraordinary cultural and arts center. Already home to DV8 Espress Bar and Gallery, Stage Right School and Theater Company, Westmoreland Museum of American Art , Pottery Playhouse, St. Clair Concerts in the Park, and so much more. In addition, the new $21 Million Seton Hill Performing Arts Center will be opening 2009 right in the heart of the Greensburg Cultural District. Due to the increased enrollment in Seton Hill's outstanding art program, Seton Hill will house the art department's painting studio in the Troutman's building. So...this all leads to a renaissance of Downtown Greensburg and Seton Hill University. Who knows...maybe someday, we will refer to "Upper Campus" and "Lower Campus" as we grow and are widely recognized for our exemplary medical programs with our Physician's Assistant Program and LECOM's Medical School, as well as our paramount performing and visual arts programs!
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