http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081211b20.html Construction of a Shop 'n Save grocery store in the Hill District is ready to begin next month. Hill House Economic Development Corp. officials announced Thursday that they have chosen construction firms L.S. Brinker and CM Solutions to build the project, dubbed Centre Heldman Plaza, a 36,400-square-foot retail space along Centre Avenue. Read more: Ground-breaking set for grocery in Hill - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_722267.html#ixzz1DgwfD5MM http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081211b20.html Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070320.html On January 1, 2011, Albert Heiles, Jr. became Hill House's New Board Chairman. Mr. Heiles has served on the Hill House Association and Hill House Economic Development Corporation boards for several years. He's a dear friend of the organization and the Hill House is looking forward to the leadership he will bring. Hill House would also like to thank Gregory R. Spencer who has served as Board Chairman of the Hill House for the past five years. Hill House thanks Mr. Spencer for his leadership and his commitment to the Hill District community. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070320.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070319.html From the rooftop of the New Granada Theatre on Centre Avenue, more than 20 Duquesne faculty and administrators gained a new perspective of the Hill District. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070319.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070308.html Last week, I posted about this really terrific project that is happening in the Hill District and other Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Well, here are some images from the wonderful kick-off event at the Hill House on Saturday March 3. The grand finale will be a reception for the children at the Hill House on Saturday March 31. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070308.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070318.html Think it's hard to get a job? Try being a young black man with an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle for a felony conviction. That's Brian Scott. But Mr. Scott, 24, of the West End, has some things other young black men with a resume that includes a stint in the Allegheny County Jail don't: He has two suits for interviews, he wears a tie and he has the support of Leroy Hayes and Michael Rogers, co-coordinators of the Young Fathers Program at the Hill House Association in the Hill District. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070318.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070309.html The 29,500-square-foot grocery store would employ about 100 people and take about a year to build once Hill House Economic Development Corp., the Centre Avenue store's developer and future owner, breaks ground in the fall. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070309.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070317.html Four computer labs will be built in some of Pittsburgh's poorest neighborhoods next year after a nonprofit won $784,000 in a round of federal stimulus funding announced Wednesday. The Pittsburgh CONNECTS project will match the funding with $211,000 to build computer labs in four low-income areas: the Hill District, Garfield, South Side Hilltop and East Liberty. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070317.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070316.html The Father's Program at the Hill House Association in the Hill District accepts referrals from the Family Division, and helps young, mostly noncustodial fathers such as Scott prepare for and secure jobs. "In all honesty, a lot of the guys have a fear of the system," said Mike Rogers, the program's co-coordinator, adding the court sets realistic payments for the most part. "It's justified terror, I guess. They really lock people up at the drop of a dime down there." http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070316.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070311.html The nonprofit Hill House Association announced today it hired Victor A. Roque as president and CEO. Roque, 63, of Hampton has served as interim president since the departure of Evan Frazier in January. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070311.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070312.html Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood will be the focus of a RAND Corporation study that will examine how a full-service grocery store can influence the health of residents served by the store, RAND announced today. The $2.7 million study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, will follow 1,000 households in the Hill District, where a new Shop 'n Save grocery store is scheduled to open in late 2011. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070312.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070310.html The Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC) announced, in partnership with SHOP ‘n SAVE, today that it has signed a lease agreement with independent grocer, Jeff Ross to operate a new 29,500-square-foot full-service grocery store on Centre Avenue in the Hill District. This will be the first full-service grocery store in the neighborhood since the 1980’s. Ross operates four other SHOP’n SAVE’s in Western Pennsylvania in Connellsville, Mt. Pleasant and two in Mckeesport. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070310.html Tiffanie Williams http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070313.html Hill District residents could be shopping at a neighborhood Shop 'n Save grocery by Thanksgiving 2011. That was the timeline advanced by representatives of the Hill House Economic Development Corp. today as they announced that they had secured Shop 'n Save and owner/operator Jeff Ross to build a 29,500-square-foot full-service grocery on city-owned land at Centre Avenue and Heldman Street. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070313.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070314.html One after another, more than 200 residents of the Hill District filed into the Wesley Center AME Church on Wednesday evening to fill out four-page applications for better futures. The jobs they are seeking at the new Consol Energy Center will be with Aramark, the company running the food-service concession in the arena. They include food and beverage stand workers, cooks and kitchen help, and servers and bartenders. Starting wages, depending upon the job, range from $6.35 an hour plus tips to $12.50 an hour. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070314.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070315.html Hill District residents rejoiced Thursday when they learned that Duquesne University in the fall will open the first pharmacy their neighborhood has seen in a decade. It would be the first university-operated community pharmacy in the nation, Duquesne University President Charles Dougherty said. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20070315.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20051212.html Beelen Street dead-ends in an illegal dump, but for the sake of the visionaries, don't look down. Turn around and look out. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20051212.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20051012.html The Pittsburgh Public Schools face familiar challenges this new school year: limited funding, below-average student test scores, a racial achievement gap and competition from private and charter schools, to name a few. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20051012.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20051009.html The Hill House Association and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh will expand Mission Discovery, an award-winning after-school program that brings real-world science and technology to Hill District middle school students, thanks to a $400,000 grant from the Grable Foundation and $175,000 from the DSF Foundation. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20051009.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20050608.html The Family Dollar chain has signed a letter of intent to put an 8,000-square-foot store in the Hill District. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20050608.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20040719.html LaTonia Edwards was a single mom, pregnant with her fourth child -- a high school dropout, haunted by life's missed opportunities. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20040719.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20090105.html Hill House staffers completed their Generations Ahead Employee Campaign with an astonishing 100% participation of full-time employees and 96% participation of part-time employees. The nearly 100 employees raised more than $60,000 for the campaign shattering both their participation rates and amounts they raised in Hill House’s 1997 Capital Campaign. Campaign co-chairs Mike Rogers and Sue Erickson attribute the enthusiastic participation to employees’ seeing results in the work they do every day. “As employees, it’s gratifying to help people change their lives. We believe in the Hill House and its programs because we see them work every day,” Rogers noted. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20090105.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081215.html The Hill House Generations Ahead Board Campaign is coming to a close with the board already having raised more than ten times what it raised in the agency’s 1997 Capital Campaign. The board campaign officially concluded in 2008 but new board members are in the process of making pledges. “This achievement reflects the board’s commitment to a campaign that will ensure the strength and vitality of the Hill House for many more years to come,” said Gregory Spencer, Hill House Board Chairman. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081215.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081201.html As part of its capital campaign, Hill House has been hosting awareness meetings at its campus in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District. The agency is receiving an overwhelming response to the meetings, which include a brief lunch presentation and then a tour of the agency and often the historic Hill District community. The agency is seeing its expected donations from funders go up after these visits. In one case, a private foundation doubled its original pledge to $500,000 noting that the range and impact of Hill House programs was far greater than they realized. According to President & CEO Evan Frazier, the campaign awareness meetings are giving people a greater understanding of the importance of Hill House services and programs. “Most are surprised that the Hill House is a six-building campus that serves nearly 70,000 directly or indirectly each year,” he noted. Those wishing to attend an awareness meeting and tour can call the Hill House at 412-392-4404. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081201.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081211b.html The Hill House kicked off its Generations Ahead campaign in 2007 with the largest gift in its history—a $1.75 million gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, which included a $750,000 challenge grant. For every dollar Hill House raises in its public campaign from individuals, RK Mellon will match it up to $750,000. “With this generous gift, the Richard King Mellon Foundation is helping to strengthen the Hill House and those we serve for many years to come,” said Evan Frazier, Hill House President and CEO. “It will have a powerful impact on our participants as they work to improve their lives, their families and their communities,” he added. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20081211b.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20091216.html Evan Frazier will end his six-year tenure as president of the Hill House later this month. As the formal search process to choose Frazier's replacement continues, the Hill House board of directors has appointed Victor Roque as interim president and CEO of the organization. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20091216.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20090313.html As part of its Generations Ahead Capital Campaign, the Hill House is launching a new website. According to President & CEO Evan Frazier, the site will be a key component to the success of the campaign’s public phase as well as the agency’s long-term efforts to build its base of individual donors. “Hill House programs matter more now than ever. This campaign is a vital factor in helping us reach more people with more services. We believe our new website will help us cast a wider net and become a primary fundraising vehicle for the Hill House,” he said. The new site will for the first few months be focused solely on campaign news and fundraising. In the fourth quarter of 2009, it will merge with the agency’s current website and become the primary online marketing and fundraising tool for the agency. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20090313.html http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110211.html The Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC) announced today the selection of a construction manager to build a 36,410 square feet retail plaza along Centre Avenue in the Hill District. The plaza will feature a full service grocery store operated by Shop ‘n Save. A joint venture team consisting of L.S. Brinker and CM Solutions will build Centre Heldman Plaza. Both minority-owned firms, L.S. Brinker is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan with offices in Pittsburgh and CM Solutions is based in Pittsburgh. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110211.html Hill House Economic Development Corporation http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110427.html The Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC) broke ground today on the Centre Heldman Plaza, a 36,410-square foot development on Centre Avenue in the Hill District. The plaza will be home to a 29,500-square-foot full-service SHOP 'n SAVE grocery store operated by franchise owner, Jeff Ross, as well as an additional 6,910 square feet of available retail space. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110427.html Hill House Econmic Development Corporation http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110220.html It was born out of the deal to build a new arena and took more than 12 months of protests, demonstrations and "pretty fierce" negotiations. But more than two years later, a community benefits agreement tied to the construction of the Consol Energy Center is producing dividends for Hill residents. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11051/1126442-53.stm?cmpid=MOSTEMAILEDBOX#ixzz1EbE4dzeh http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110220.html Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110426.html With the symbolic lift of a shovel, the Hill District's long drought without a grocery will be nearing its end. Led by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, a host of dignitaries will gather Wednesday to break ground on a 29,500-square-foot Shop 'n Save at Centre Avenue and Heldman Street, moving the Hill a step closer to realizing a decades-old dream. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11116/1141898-53.stm#ixzz1KdSL2pMV http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110426.html Post-Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110505.html More than 30 years after the last grocer closed in the Hill District, residents and community leaders celebrated the groundbreaking for a new SHOP ‘n SAVE, creating 85 construction and 100 retail jobs, and saving hundreds of residents from having to leave their community for basic needs. But there is more, said Hill House Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Jules Matthews. DigIn DIG IN—Representatives from the Hill House Economic Development Corp.; funders; city, county and state government; and operator Jeff Ross break ground for the Hill District SHOP ‘n SAVE scheduled to open in November. (Photo by J.L. Martello) “To date our (Minority Business Enterprise) participation is over 80 percent,” she said during a press event at the Hill House Kaufmann Auditorium. “And we estimate that construction will include 5,000 hours of resident Sect. 3 employment.” http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110505.html Post-Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110610.html PITTSBURGH, PA (June 10, 2011) — Produced in partnership with the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Hill House Kaufmann Center presents Juneteenth Festival on June 18, 2011. This free festival is a community celebration with indoor and outdoor performances, workshops, and tours of the Hill. Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery, commemorating African American freedom. The Hill House invites residents of the Hill and abroad to celebrate history through art at the Juneteenth Festival. Located in the exterior space of the Kaufmann Center, the Ujamaa Collective sets up shop with original handmade jewelry, hair care and natural soap products. The Ujamaa Collective marketplace will also be selling clothing and special vegan treats. Visit their boutique located just two blocks from the Kaufmann Center. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110610.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110601.html Several studies have identified that the time after school is when teenagers are most likely to get involved in negative activity, but the Kassi Leadership Academy in the Hill District is using that time to turn young Blacks into leaders, thus preventing juvenile delinquency. Kassi is a free afterschool program based out of the Hill House Association for middle and high school students to broaden their scope of possibilities for the future and to develop them into young leaders for their homes, schools and communities. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110601.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110623.html It was a night of cultured elegance when the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed its annual community engagement concert at the newly-renovated Kaufmann Auditorium in the Hill District on June 14. “This is a unique approach that we take to connect the community with the Pittsburgh Symphony,” explained Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor, Thomas Hong. “This is serving as the inauguration concert at the Kaufmann Center and we’re excited because we were able to bring a fuller orchestra to the community and therefore expand the repertoire.” http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110623.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110905.html Three months before the expected opening of a Shop 'n Save supermarket in the Hill District, data collectors are closing in on their goal of surveying 1,000 households in the "before" phase of a $2.7 million Rand Corp. study. The National Institutes of Health gave the grant to Rand to track the impact a neighborhood grocery store has on residents' food buying decisions over five years. It will be the most comprehensive study of its type ever done and includes 650 households in Homewood as a comparative population, said Tamara Dubowitz, the study's lead researcher. Homewood does not have a full-service grocery store, and the Shop 'n Save will be the first in the Hill in more than 30 years. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11249/1172470-53-0.stm#ixzz1XCHvtTq0 http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110905.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110810.html After a corporate career that took her as far away as London, Cheryl Hall-Russell returned to her native Indiana and to her nonprofit roots. Now she is bringing her extensive expertise to Pittsburgh as the new president and chief operating officer for the Hill House Association. Hall-Russell is the fifth person to lead the agency since its founding. She succeeds Victor Roque who resigned in June, and like Roque, she will also serve as president and CEO of the Hill House Economic Development Corp. She starts her new position Sept. 1. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110810.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110814.html The newly appointed director of the Hill House Association is excited to be taking the reins of the 47-year-old organization, though she is leaving a large family and a job she has enjoyed behind in Indianapolis. Cheryl Hall-Russell, 51, was announced as the president and CEO of the social services organization, which serves a predominately African-American population, on Tuesday. She will begin her new job Sept. 1, taking over for Victor Roque, who resigned in June. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11226/1166999-53-0.stm#ixzz1XCubgRPG http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110814.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111008.html So we’ve been hearing rumblings for weeks that President Barack Obama would be making another visit to Pittsburgh, and today the details appear to be firmed up. He’ll be on the South Side at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 5 for a meeting of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Oct. 11. The meeting will follow a citywide blitz of members of the council, who will be holding “listening and action sessions” at different locations. South Side accelerator AlphaLab will be one of these sites, according to the White House. The other locations are: sodium-ion battery maker Aquion Energy in Lawrenceville; robotics firm Seegrid in Findlay Township; the Human Engineering Research Lab of VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Bakery Square; and the Kaufman Center at the Hill House Association in the Hill District. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111008.html Pittsburgh Business Times http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120125.html The Roy A. Hunt Foundation held its annual board meeting at Hill House Kaufmann Center before the holiday season. The full board meets twice a year to review and discuss projects the foundation may fund in its next funding cycle. A couple of years back the board made the decision to make a contribution to Hill HRAHF Trustees @ Hill House Nov 2011 6ouse's capital campaign towards the renovations of Hill House Kaufmann Center. Now, the board can stand on the amphitheater that their dollars along with others helped to revive and build and they can meet in a newly renovated cultural center that's been a hub for community activities in the Hill District for decades. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120125.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120228.html Though it was a cold winters day on February 12th, Walter Dean Myers and Chris Myers did not let the snow stop them from giving an informative and interactive presentation on their latest book "We Are America", held at the Hill House Kaufmann Center. Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, Kelly Strayhorn Theater and the Hill House Association partnered to bring the "Black, White and Read All Over" Family Book Series to the Hill District community. Over 150 individuals and families attended the lecture and book signing. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120228.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120525.html TWO NIGHTS OF MUSIC ON THE HILL HOUSE CAMPUS On May 31st and June 1st, the Hill House Kaufmann Center will host two nights of music in the Hill District. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120525.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120404.html Hill House Presents "Live from the Hill" jazz vocalist and bassist, Esperanza Spalding on Friday, June 1st at Hill House Kaufmann Center. Esperanza will perform with Grammy award winning Drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington and Pianist Geri Allen. Formerly known as The Soul Gala, Hill House has re-branded its annual event to "Live from the Hill". "Live from the Hill" will feature national and/or local artists bringing live music back to the Hill District. Funds from the concert will directly benefit Hill House programs. The event will include a VIP cocktail reception for sponsors and VIP ticket holders at 6 pm with an opportunity to meet Esperanza. The concert will begin at 7:30 pm. The evening will end with an outdoor dance party on the courtyard of Kaufmann Center. Individual tickets will go on sale at the end of April. For sponsorship opportunities please call 412-392-3149. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120404.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110923-2.html Three Pittsburgh organizations announced today that they have been awarded $1.95 million from the federal government to accelerate the creation of jobs and economic growth in underserved Pittsburgh communities that have, to date, not benefited from the resurgence of Pittsburgh industries such as energy and healthcare. The Hill House Association (HHA), The Pittsburgh Central Keystone Innovation Zone (PCKIZ) and the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence (IEE), in collaboration with other partners, are jointly implementing one of twenty projects nationally that were awarded through the multi-agency Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. The communities to be targeted through the program are the Hill District, East Liberty, Garfield, Larimer, Lincoln and Homewood. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110923-2.html Hill House Association, Pgh. Central Keystone Innovation Zone & PITT http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111012.html President Obama’s stop in Pittsburgh Tuesday to meet with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness had much more of a campaign flavor than his last swing through town in June. This stop had one clear message, and it was aimed squarely at legislators in Washington, D.C., who are taking up his proposed American Jobs Act. He repeatedly called out Congressional opponents to the bill and told voters to call their Senators and make them justify their votes. “Put country ahead of party,” he said noting that next election is 13 months away and regular Americans can’t wait that long for action. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111012.html Pittsburgh Business Times http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111007.html Thanks to federal initiatives on two different fronts, Pittsburgh will see and influx of funding designed to help businesses expand and hire new employees. There is also funding for training people to acquire the skills those jobs will require. “We’re really very excited about this,” said Pittsburgh Central Keystone Innovation Zone President and CEO William Generett Jr. “There were only 20 awards made out of 200 applications submitted nationally. Our group was the only one in the state to receive this funding.” http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111007.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111024.html Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 24, 2011 – Terri Baltimore, Vice President of Neighborhood Development of the Hill House Association, Celeta Hickman, Acting President of the Ujamaa Collective, and saxophonist Kenny Blake will leave Pittsburgh Tuesday, October 25th for a week-long trip to Newry, Ireland to participate in the Sticky Fingers International Children’s Festival. The month-long children’s festival is one of the largest festivals in the UK and Ireland and is hosted by Sticky Fingers Early Years Arts, a leading arts organization for young children in Ireland. Grainne Powell, Artistic Director of Sticky Fingers, visited Pittsburgh in 2010 for a conference and went on an historic tour of the Hill District. Guided by Terri Baltimore of the Hill House, she learned about the Hill’s history in arts and music and its cultural traditions. This began a dialogue on how Newry and the Hill District are similar in its traditions and how it engages its community through the arts. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111024.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111030.html The honors given in architectural award competitions always say as much about the panel of judges as about the architecture they're judging. And it's clear that the out-of-town panel that judged this year's competition for members of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects likes buildings that are "edgy." Read more: Pittsburgh architects honored for works here, worldwide - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_764633.html#ixzz1cNB7o8m8 http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111030.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20121218.html News from the House. Hill House's December Online Newsletter. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20121218.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111017.html News from the House. Hill House's October Online Newsletter. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111017.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111028.html News from the House. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20111028.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110808.html The next generation of a cappella groups graced the stage of the Kaufmann Center in the Hill District in celebration of this year’s Juneteenth Festival, which was produced in partnership with the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Juneteenth is the yearly celebration to remember the end of slavery in the United States. During the Civil War, even though the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, most slaves were not officially freed until the end of the war in 1865, and there were many more that did not find out until months after that, especially in Texas. “We have been working on a partnership with the Kaufmann Center for the past few months,” explained Kelly Strayhorn’s executive director, Janera Solomon. “Our thanks go to Committed for coming to Pittsburgh to support us.” http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110808.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120213.html Administrators of Familylinks and Family Services said they're looking forward to the new role and have begun working with the county AAA to try to arrange a smooth transition for clients. Familylinks, in particular, has not done work focused on aging services in the past, but both its officials and those with the county expressed confidence that experience managing cases of young people with mental health or retardation issues or adults with addiction troubles is transferable to assisting seniors with their needs. "We would hope if these other individuals [losing jobs at other agencies] want to continue in care management they would want to apply to our agency, and we would be very interested in speaking with them," said Michelle Sipple, Familylinks service coordination unit director, to help with some 1,300 new clients it will handle as of July 1. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12044/1209870-455-3.stm#ixzz1mId0gXtA http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120213.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120208.html Walter Dean Myers, author of more than 100 books for young adults and children, is the first African-American writer to serve as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the third person to hold the position, which the Library of Congress created in 2008. He succeeds Katherine Paterson, best known for her novel "Bridge to Terabithia," and Jon Scieszka, author of "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales." In his new role, Mr. Myers, 74, of Jersey City, N.J., will visit schools and libraries nationwide for the next two years to talk about reading and literacy. He appears Sunday at Hill House with his 37-year-old son, Christopher, an artist who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has illustrated many of his father's books. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208683-44.stm#ixzz1lpfz8tOX http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120208.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120412.html Cliffside Park is a little pocket of playground perched on the hillside above the Strip. Few people outside the Hill District know about it. Its good fortune is that the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy does. The conservancy announced today the design that has come of its collaboration with the Hill House Association and the Find the Rivers! greenprint — a guide for developing, expanding, enhancing and networking the Hill’s green spaces. Landscape artist/architect Walter Hood of Oakland, Cal., led the design of the greenprint, which also involved the local Studio for Spatial Practice. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120412.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120414.html Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas have some beautiful parks, but some of those spaces have been overlooked for years. Now, a new restoration plan has been unveiled that will bring life back to those ignored parks. Given that it’s been around for more than 100 years, it comes as no surprise McKinley Park has seen better days. “We used to live up here in the summertime,” said William Stephens, of Beltzhoover. “You’d ride your bike up here. You’d walk up here. Your girlfriend would meet you up here.” http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120414.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120106.html Hill breaks ground for Shop ‘n Save—More than 30 years after the last grocer closed in the Hill District, residents and community leaders celebrated the groundbreaking for a new Shop ‘n Save, creating 85 construction and 100 retail jobs, and saving hundreds of residents from having to leave their community for basic needs. Hill House selects new CEO—After a corporate career that took her as far away as London, Cheryl Hall-Russell returned to her native Indiana and her nonprofit roots. Now she is bringing her extensive expertise to Pittsburgh as the new president and CEO for the Hill House Association. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120106.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120105.html Pittsburgh has an ardent community-base for Kwanzaa and it was out in full force during the final week of the year. Celebrations were held throughout the city in Homewood, East Liberty and Downtown at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. Perhaps the most vibrant observance of all took place in the Hill District Thursday evening when the Kente Arts Alliance, Ujamaa Collective and the Hill House Association hosted a day-long Kwanzaa event of educational Afrocentric activities in the Elsie H. Hillman Auditorium on Centre Avenue. A multi-generational gathering of several hundred took in presentations for the entire family including book authors, vendors of handcrafted and imported clothing and giftware, artisans. Individuals also learned of traditional African holistic healing methods used to treat a variety of ailments certified herbalists while taking in live performances of music, drummers, dance and spoken word, and enjoying complimentary meals of the African diaspora. The highlight was a lecture by Dr. Maulana Karenga, the creator of Kwanzaa. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120105.html New Pittsburgh Courier http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120607.html Completion of the Shop 'n Save in the Hill District has a new timeline of a spring 2013 opening and a new construction contractor in the Massaro Corp. Cheryl Hall-Russell, president and CEO of the Hill House Association, said a final cost analysis is expected in three to five weeks, after which partners on the project "can return to the funding community with a workable plan they can have confidence in." The project is estimated to cost about $9 million, most of which has been committed, including $1 million from the Urban Redevelopment Authority, grants from several foundations and the county and state, she said. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/hill-district-shop-n-save-opening-delayed-until-spring-2013-639285/#ixzz1xG3WSFvH http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120607.html Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120607-1.html Hill District residents will be able to buy groceries in a long-delayed Shop 'n Save on Centre Avenue by spring, the project developer said on Wednesday. The Hill House Association, a community nonprofit developing the property across from its Centre Avenue headquarters, still must overcome a funding shortfall, but construction should hit the express lane this year, President and CEO Cheryl Hall-Russell said. The opening can't come soon enough for residents, who have waited 20 years for a supermarket in the city neighborhood. "Most people won't be satisfied until they can go through the checkout line with their groceries," said resident Carl Redwood, chairman of the Hill District Consensus Group, a neighborhood planning organization. "Once I can go shopping, me and a whole lot of people from the Hill will be very happy, but we realize there's a lot to do to make a building work." http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120607-1.html Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120415.html Cliffside Park in the Hill District is getting a $1 million makeover, and McKinley Park's historic stone entrance is one of the Beltzhoover park's upgrades. Both projects are collaborations between the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and neighborhood groups. The Cliffside renovation is due in 2013. It is the first capital project to come out of the greenprint plan of Find the Rivers!, a nonprofit dedicated to developing green space in the Hill. Terri Baltimore, vice president for neighborhood development at the Hill House, said the greenprint's first phase was "a big picture overview, and the second phase got specific. Cliffside Park was a project that rose to the top." Read more: http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/12105/1224270-53.stm#ixzz1sQ4ffqqc http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120415.html Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120301.html n the basement of Hill House, a community center just outside of this city's bustling downtown, Brooklyn Davis clutches a plastic fork and stabs eagerly at a styrofoam plate piled high with waffles and syrup. He keeps a broad-billed, oversized New York Yankees baseball cap pulled low over his ears, and has a NASCAR jacket -- festooned with the "Army Strong" trademark and corporate logos from Office Depot and Chevrolet and Old Spice -- wrapped around his thin frame. "I found out I was poor in middle school," Davis says between bites, as he recalls intermittent forays into the drug trade. "I had holes in my shoes and I started getting ripped on. So I just started hitting the block, and I was like 'Man, nobody's going to be bothering me now. I've got money in my pocket.' But I realized that can't go on too long." Davis is now a Hill House regular, keen to have a chance at breakfast, access to computers and the use of a telephone. The facility is anchored in the historic Hill District, a predominantly black and widely impoverished neighborhood that begins in the shadow of the recently completed Consol Energy Center arena -- the $320 million home to the Pittsburgh Penguins professional hockey team -- and rises eastward along several of the city's steep ridges. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120301.html Huffington Post http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110707.html August 8. 2011, Pittsburgh – The Hill House Association Board of Directors today announced Cheryl Hall-Russell as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hill House Association. She also will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hill House Economic Development Corporation. Ms. Hall-Russell, an Indianapolis native, will become only the fifth CEO in the 47-year history of the Hill House, one of the city's most long-standing and historic social services agencies. Ms. Hall-Russell comes to the Hill House from the Indiana Youth Services Association (IYSA), where she currently serves as CEO. IYSA is a statewide membership association in Indiana that focuses on juvenile delinquency prevention and provides services in crisis intervention, teen court, family counseling, mentoring, shelter care and afterschool programming. Prior to joining IYSA, Ms. Hall-Russell served as Vice President of Urban Services for the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis. She also worked in neighborhood economic development as the former Executive Director of the Indianapolis Coalition for Neighborhood Development. And with the Community Centers of Indianapolis as the Director of Strategic Services, she served as the chief operations officer supporting the human resource function for 320 employees and creating new programming and technology initiatives for the organization. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110707.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110921.html September 21, 2011 Pittsburgh – The Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC) announced today that wireless service provider, Cricket, has signed a 5-year lease agreement for retail space at Centre Heldman Plaza. Currently under construction, Centre Heldman Plaza will be home to a new 29,500-square foot full-service grocery store operated by SHOP ‘n SAVE on the Centre Avenue business corridor in the Hill District. The plaza includes 6,910-square feet of additional retail space, in which Cricket will occupy a portion of it at 1,000 square feet. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110921.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120210.html Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 10, 2012 – The Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC) announced today that it is in the process of finalizing an agreement to name a new project manager to oversee the Hill District's Centre Heldman Plaza project, which includes the new Shop 'n Save grocery store. The project manager will replace Jules Matthews who is departing as executive director of the HHEDC. Ms. Matthews played a key role in advancing the project and the much-anticipated grocery store over the past three years. The HHEDC board wishes her the best in her endeavors. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120210.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news201205-25.html PITTSBURGH, May 25, 2012 – The Hill House Association announced today that Grammy Awards’ 2011 Best New Artist, jazz vocalist and bassist Esperanza Spalding will perform at its annual fundraiser, Live from the Hill, on Friday, June 1st. Currently on tour as a jazz trio, Ms. Spalding will perform with Grammy Award Winning drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington and pianist Geri Allen at Hill House Kaufmann Center. Formerly known as The Soul Gala, Hill House has re-branded its annual fundraiser as Live from the Hill. The annual fundraiser is the first event in a series to take place throughout the year to honor the live music legacy of the Hill District. Local and regional artists will perform as part of the series. Live from the Hill will engage youth as on-air talent and production assistants who will interview artists and produce stories to podcast on the Live from the Hill website which will launch this summer. Live from the Hill will mark its home in the newly renovated Kaufmann Center, which re-opened last year with a benefit concert by nine-time Grammy Award winning recording artist, John Legend. "For the second straight year, a Grammy Award winning artist will help us raise critical funds for the Hill House. And with the launch of Live from the Hill, we give our youth an opportunity to learn, grow and be the storytellers of all the promise happening in the Hill,” said Cheryl Hall-Russell, President and CEO of Hill House Association. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news201205-25.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120306.html The Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC) announced today that it has selected CM Solutions, LLC as its new Owners Representative for the Centre Heldman Plaza construction project and Sphinx Group LLC as the HHEDC-based project administrator. Centre Heldman Plaza will be home to a new SHOP ‘n SAVE grocery store in the Hill District along Centre Avenue’s business corridor. CM Solutions is a minority-owned construction management services firm providing project engineering, supervision, estimating, consultation, scheduling and project management/coordination services to its clients. Sphinx Group provides strategic, operating and real estate advisory services to community development organizations. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120306.html Hill House Association http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120606.html Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 6, 2012 – The long awaited grocery store in the Hill District is back on track. An area once determined to be a “food desert”, a term used to describe communities where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain, will soon happily lose this designation. Because of the collaboration between Hill House Economic Development Corporation (HHEDC), the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Ross Markets, Massaro Corporation and the generosity of the funding community, the 29,500 square foot SHOP ‘n SAVE grocery store set for the Hill District has another chance to become a reality. The retail development project, Centre Heldman Plaza, will be anchored by a new SHOP ‘n SAVE full-service grocery store set for a spring 2013 delivery. “Through the cooperation of the HHEDC, the URA, local politicians and Supervalu – it is with great pleasure that everyone’s hard work will lead to the completion of this long anticipated project,” stated Jeff Ross, whose family-owned business will operate the SHOP ‘n SAVE store. http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20120606.html Hill House Economic Development Corporation http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110309.html When Kaufmann Center reopens next week, visitors will see the transformation of a Hill District landmark. Completed in 1928 and located at 1835 Centre Ave., Irene Kaufmann Auditorium was designed by Edward Stotz with classical columns, a limestone exterior and a long stone staircase. A $6 million renovation of the building's 17,500 square feet, plus the construction of a 2,400-square-foot addition, began in December 2009. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11068/1130560-437.stm#ixzz1GAJ8xHpp http://hillhouse.org/home/news-media/news/news20110309.html Post-Gazette