Fresh Hops main ingredient for the “Wet-Hopped Beer Festival”

One man’s mistake is another neighborhood’s tasty treat; in this case we mean an overabundance of fresh-hop beer from 5 different brewers. Thanks to an unintentional quadruple-order of hops, East End Brewing Co. will host the first annual “Wet-Hopped Beer Festival” on Thursday, October 11 at 7 pm at Kelly’s Bar and Lounge.

The other brewery participants are Church Brew Work, Wilkins’ John Harvard’s Brew House, Rivertowne Pour House and Johnstown Brewing. Each brewer has prepared their own wet-hopped concoction, from India Pale Ales to barley wine, for adventurous beer tasters. The beers will be sold individually at the festival.

For more information call Kelly’s Bar and Lounge at 412.363.6012. Read more about the festival in the Post Gazette.

Taking advantage of the new shops and resturants reminds a Pittsburgh native of good old S’Liberty.

Read this article posted in the New Pittsburgh Courier.

Bakery Square, the $113 million, 495,000 sq ft mixed-use project located on Penn Avenue in the former Nabisco Factory, was featured in Pop City yesterday for making notable progress. Read more about it.

The development will feature two floors of retail, a fitness center, office space, a Marriott hotel, rental townhouses and a parking garage. If all of this weren’t enough, Walnut Capital and partners are looking to make the building LEED certified with solar-paneled roofing and wind turbines.

The optimistic opening date for the development is Christmas of 2009.

The Community Planning process began last week with Thursdays Workforce Task Force meeting and will continue with three Task Force meetings this week.

TOMORROW! Youth Engagement October 2, 6 - 8 p.m. Parental Stress Center

Thursday! Safe Neighborhoods October 4, 6 - 8 p.m. ELPC, Room 244

Thursday! Housing October 4, 6 - 8 p.m. ELPC, McKelvey Room

We need the voices and opinions of the neighborhood to make these meetings successful, so please attend and spread the word!

For more information about the Task Forces, visit our Community Vision page.