Volume 29 No. 12
December 2013
Bridge demolished, park Market sells handmade designated historic goods on East Ohio Street
a pop-up market, and the NSLC saw the need to support the Northside’s creative community. Craftsmen and artists The Nov. 22 opening had throughout the Northside have refreshments and live music from come together for a pop-up market Northside pianist Tom Roberts on East Ohio Street, where they can It coincided with Historic sell their handmade goods through Deutchtown’s tree lighting the holiday season. celebration in a nearby The Northside Leadership Conference has recruited nine artists Blumengarten, owned by the Priory. Market House artists will sell to participate in The New Allegheny wall art, jewelry, vintage clothing, Market House, which kicked off the up-cycled furniture, dolls and more. season on Nov. 22 in the Beckert Photographer and Allegheny Building. West resident Sara Beck Sweeney “Our main priorities are to sells and display her local support artists that live her and photographs and collages printed on provide a new retail experience for wooden panels at the New Allegheny Historic Deutschtown,” said NSLC Market House. What drew her to Business Development Director this particular market is that it was Emily Leone Honhart. Northside based. The Market House will be open “I like that this is happening in from Thursdays and Sundays from my neighborhood,” said Sweeney. “I 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays from think it’s great to be connecting with 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Dec. 28. other artists in this area.” The NSLC planned The New Organizers and artists hope Allegheny Market House using the that the Market House will lead to “pop-up” model, which has been an eventual permanent and shared very successful in Pittsburgh. Popstudio space for Northside artists to up markets and business models create and sell their work. bring temporary businesses in to fill “We realized there were a lot of unused urban space and generate artists who were looking for a small foot traffic and buzz about a business amount of space to sell or make district. The Beckert Building, at the prominent corner of James and East See Market, page 3 Ohio streets, was an ideal setting for
By Kelsey Shea
Kelsey Shea By the time the first snow fell in late November, the deck of the pedestrian bridge had been demolished.
By Kelsey Shea This month Allegheny Commons Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places, which preservationists hope will give them a stronger voice in the reconstruction of the West Park pedestrian bridge. The honor of being added to the National Register came on the heels of an announcement from the City of its plans to tear down a pedestrian bridge in West Park without plans to replace it. “On one hand, the park is getting acknowledged as this national historic space,” said Allegheny Commons Initiative Director Alida Baker. “On the other hand, we’re being short-sighted and
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hand-in-mouth when implementing this pedestrian bridge project.” Baker and other preservationists opposed the demolition, which they feel was hasty. The deck of bridge was torn down Nov. 8, and there are no current plans to replace it. This bridge was closed to pedestrians several years ago, and City officials believe that there was no other solution and that the bridge is unsafe and unable to be saved. The Allegheny Commons Initiative submitted an application to be on the National Register several years ago, and just being considered helped the organization
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