Healthy food access financing available for local markets through Bridgeway
Bridgeway Capital is funding businesses that help grow healthier communities by improving access to affordable and nutritious food with flexible loans, micro-grants and business education opportunities. These opportunities are available to: Expand inventory to include healthy foods Renovate layout to […]
Musicians one step closer to taking the stage at historic Roxian Theatre
McKees Rocks landmark gets new lease on life By Sonja Reis | MRCDC McKees Rocks, PA – The long-awaited promise of a mid-size live music venue in McKees Rocks is one step closer to stage time now that Lawrenceville entrepreneur […]
The McKees Rock Community Development Corporation and Work Hard Pittsburgh are exploring the launch of collaborative shared office space in downtown McKees Rocks near Chartiers Avenue. Downtown McKees Rocks is changing quickly, with numerous projects in the works and the […]
What’s thrive? Sto-Rox Community Resource Center Spends Its First 100 Days Helping Members Learn to Thrive
By Sonja Reis | MRCDC Traveling through downtown McKees Rocks, you can’t help but notice subtle changes to the landscape along the Chartiers Avenue business district. There are building facade updates, additions to the outdoor space at Rocks Landing, signs […]
Help create opportunity and impact by sharing ideas during Launch Sto-Rox, a community conversation
Launch Sto-Rox is a program to help local business and community project leaders create opportunity and impact. Your views will guide the direction of this program and future programming in McKees Rocks and Stowe Township. Focus On Renewal, the McKees […]
Sonja Reis | MRCDC It’s been several months since an Urban Land Institute advisory services panel traveled to McKees Rocks bringing with it national experts in the real estate field who studied land use planning and development projects, programs, and […]
Sonja Reis | MRCDC The McKees Rocks Borough is the recipient of a $377,000 Green Revitalization of Our Waterways (GROW) grant through the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority. This grant is one of 32 matching municipal grants totaling $9 million that was […]
‘It Starts With the Field’ funding campaign aims to bring synthetic turf field for Sto-Rox activities
Sonja Reis | MRCDC It’s been 40 years since the grass field at Sto-Rox Memorial Stadium has been resurfaced and for many of those years, fear of further damaging the already fragile playing area forced the school district to severely […]
Survey results! Pilot project to help residents improve their neighborhood
By Annemarie Malbon | MRCDC As part of an experimental pilot program, the McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation last Fall conducted a door-to-door resident and property survey in the area between Chartiers Avenue, Singer Avenue, and Rosamond Street in McKees […]
Introducing: Annemarie Malbon, Neighborhood Stabilization Intern
Though originally from southwestern Virginia, Annemarie now considers the Pittsburgh region her home. After receiving her Bachelors of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University, Annemarie served two years as an AmeriCorps member with Habitat for Humanity, Charlotte, N.C. and Rebuilding Together […]