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Jack Stack pool overlooking Riverview Park in Brighton Heights. Citipark outdoor pools open mid-June 2017.
OpenStreetsPGH coming to NS By Victoria Stevans Join your neighbors, explore the city, and enjoy free events this summer with 2017’s OpenStreetsPGH. Instead of cars and traffic, Pittsburgh’s streets will be filled with fitness workshops, community arts programs, and promotions from hundreds of local businesses on the last Sundays of May, June, and July. People of all ages are welcome to experience these carefree spaces either on foot or by bike, get outside, and have fun. OpenStreetsPGH will hit the Northside on Sunday, June 25 with a the three-mile route that follows See OpenStreetsPGH, Page 14
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New cafe to open in East Deutschtown By Neil Strebig A booming voice greets each new customer from behind the polished pine counter top with a simple salutation, “How you doing?” Then Chris Waraks extends his hand, introduces himself and welcomes each patron into his coffee shop – into his neighborhood– with a friendly smile. Sitting on the corner of Chestnut Street and Spring Garden Avenue, where the old Deutschtown crimsonbrick trolley line comes to a halt, is The Kaffeehaus Café, the Northside’s newest addition. The grand opening will be on Saturday, June 10. “We wanted something for the neighborhood,” said own-
er Chris Waraks. “We wanted something that would get things moving for the neighborhood.” Waraks is a Spring Hill native who is adamant about changing the current appearance of his local neighborhoods from the rundown, forgotten properties decorating the streets beyond the I-279 junction into a destination. He wants The Kaffeehaus Café to be the catalyst to something more. “[We] don’t want to see another coffee and cigarette shop, we want to offer something different, something fresh,” Waraks said. In conjunction with his construction business, Mr. Renovation, Warack and his team have remodeled a number of properties in the
immediate area and held an open house for the café on Sunday, May 21 in part of a 13 property Open House tour throughout the immediate Deutschtown and Troy Hill area. Waraks hopes that The Kaffeehaus Café and his neighboring properties can become a focal point in the improvement of East Deutschtown’s current landscape. The cafe, which was formerly a barbershop, offers customers freshbaked goods, ‘Duetschtown Dunkel Coffee’ and ‘Tripoli Tea’ on tap and is also including a monthly art installation for local artists. The walls at the Kaffeehaus are currently decorated with the paint See Kaffeehaus, Page 23