This month’s Greenfield Garden Club homegrown potluck will be at Joanna Hohman’s house tomorrow (July 26th) at 3925 Coleman Street starting at 7 PM. Anyone is welcome, and the dish does not have to be homemade. Any questions call Joanna at 724-516-2717.
We’re on for the next community meeting to discuss proposed sign designs, the online voting results, and next steps in advancing the redesign of the neighborhood portal at Beechwood and Alger. Community Meeting #2 will be held at Hough’s Sports Bar, this Thursday, 6:30 pm, July 15, 2010. As noted earlier on the site, the voting results are only one of multiple factors that will determine final sign design. To be further discussed the 15th. And if you haven’t picked your favorite design yet, you can vote in the side bar! Hope to see you there.
Come join your fellow Greenfielders for our third installment of Greenfield Game Night! Bring your own games or join others there. This Sunday, July 11, at 4 PM at the Greenfield Presbyterian Church (3929 Coleman Street).
Game on!
Ever wonder what it would be like to have a neighborhood coffeehouse in Greenfield? Well, join your neighbors for an experimental coffeehouse edition of Meet Your Neighbors Night in the community room at Greenfield Presbyterian Church (3929 Coleman Street). There will be a cash coffee bar, tea, desserts and cafe sandwiches. Board gamers are welcome! JULY 8TH (THURSDAY) from 6:30 to 9:30 PM.
We’re on for the next community meeting to discuss proposed sign designs, the online voting results, and next steps in advancing the redesign of the neighborhood portal at Beechwood and Alger.
Community Meeting #2 will be held at Hough’s Sports Bar, 6:30 pm, July 15, 2010. If you haven’t voted yet, you can choose your favorite design in the sidebar!
The latest tally is 124 votes with two clear favorites, but as noted in our earlier blog post, the voting results are only one of multiple factors that will determine final sign design, to be further discussed on the 15th. Hope to see you there.
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Summer Music Program
July 12-13st, 2010
If you are a young singer under the age of 30 and want to improve your vocal talent, stage craft and language skills, join us this summer for an exciting program designed just for you!
Our internationally acclaimed teachers will help you get the most out of your summer with an intensive 3 week program of:
Pittsburgh Young Vocalists Summer Music Program will give you the experience you need to be a cut above the rest!
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Deadline for enrollment is June 21, 2010.
Teaching staff includes: Voice Instructor, baritone Daniel Teadt will also teach Movement, Diction and Stage the Final Concert; Andres Cladera is the Principal Vocal Coach and Musical Director of PYV’s Final Comcert. He will also teach languages for the program.
Join local residents at our Community Resource Fair this Saturday, June 5th from 10am to 1pm at the Greenfield School. This great event is a collaboration between Connect Greenfield, Hazelwood Initiative, NeighborWorks of Western Pennsylvania, Community Design Center of Pittsburgh (CDCP), and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).
Join us for presentations and info from many local organizations, food, fun activities and raffle prizes! Information topics will include:
Bring your family, friends and neighbors – we’ll see you there!
The poll is up in the sidebar–go ahead and place your vote for your favorite portal sign design!
We’re continuing to have some difficulties with the portal design poll, sorry for the inconvenience.
In follow up to Connect Greenfield’s March 15, 2010 community meeting on the redesign of the triangular median at Beechwood and Alger, a resident volunteer and landscape designer, Wayne from Lami Grubb Architects, agreed to develop alternative sign designs. Guidance from the community meeting included the following:
The designer originally developed fifteen wide ranging alternatives. Connect Greenfield and the Greenfield Organization convened the Design Committee and worked with a small group of community residents to identify the top candidates for further consideration.
The sign designs presented below are recommended to the community for comment and selection. Please vote in the sidebar for your favorite sign design and, if you’d like, discuss the different designs in the comments. The final tally for each design will be taken into account when deciding which design to go with, but the top-vote-getting design will not necessarily be the one that is chosen.
From Wayne:
Greenfield is a special place, unique in many ways from other neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. Our sign should reflect this. The goal of the sign’s design is to identify for visitors, remind residents, and inform the unknowing where they are and that they are welcomed. It should reflect the history of the neighborhood and the city as well as be a design of high quality and low maintenance.
Sign Option A:
This sign is patina copper connected to a concrete base. The copper curves opposite of the base below. The base below could also have plantings. The word “Greenfield” could be cut-out metal letters and applied to the copper. The words “Welcome You” would be the same cut-out metal letters attached to the base. The entire sign could be face lit from below. As an option, the word “Greenfield” could be cut out of the copper sign, similar to Option C below, and lit from the inside. The rear of the sign would provide a backdrop of patina copper for the plantings.
Sign Option B:
In this sign, the “Greenfield” letters are painted cut-out metal letters applied to a stainless steel panel supported with painted steel posts on a brick base. The “welcomes you” words are cut-out metal letters on pins mounted into the planting bed below. The sign could be lit from below in the planting bed.
As options, the backing material can be a translucent composite or glass material or a different metal. The base could be stacked stone, tile or other high weathering material.
Sign Option C:
This sign consists of two layers. The front layer is core ten – a steel that develops a rust coating that protects the steel from further rusting. This layer would have the letters of “Greenfield” cut out. The back layer would be a green painted steel. There would be a gap of about 3″ between the 2 layers. Lights mounted between the layers would illuminate the sign at night. The words “welcomes you” would be cut-out metal letters mounted on the surface of the core ten. The base could also be stone, brick or other high wear materials. The rear of the sign would provide a backdrop of core ten copper for the plantings.
As an option, the 2nd layer could be a translucent material, so in the day time, the word “Greenfield” would glow. At night the back side would glow.
Sign Option D:
This sign is a reflection of the Greenfield hills. The rounded hill shapes consist of painted cut-out metal plates. There are gaps in between the plates. Lights could be installed between them so some hills would have a “halo” effect. There could also be lights in front to light the face of the sign. The word “Greenfield” would be made of painted cut-out metal letters mounted to the concrete base below. The base could also be brick or stone. The hills would also adorn the rear plantings.
One option would be to make the cut-out metal letters copper instead of painted and give each letter a different level of patina to create a natural green color.
Sign Option E:
This sign is more asymmetric than the other signs. The letters “Greenfield” are cut-out metal letters (stainless steel or painted metal) applied over frosted colored glass or acrylic. The glass is mounted to a concrete base. There is another frosted glass on the back to further diffuse the words from the backside. The interior frame work is bent steel converging to an imaginary point beyond the sign creating a sense of arrival. Lights would be mounted between the glass plates. The words “welcomes you” would be cut-out metal mounted on the base below. The rear view of the sign would be the reverse image of the front view.
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