Squirrel Hill Farmers Market
Every Sunday, June - November
Located off Murray Avenue, between Beacon Street and Bartlett Street
Largest farmers market in the city of Pittsburgh - launched in 2014
15,000 attendees in year 1 - 20,000 in year 2
$250,000 total economic impact / per year and growing
25,000 fewer car miles driven / per year and growing
50+ tons of locally-grown, organic produce sold / per year
Squirrel Hill NIGHT MARKET
Launched Summer 2017
In August 2015 we launched the largest night market in the city of Pittsburgh. In association with Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition and Uncover Squirrel Hill, we furthered our goal of creating a third place in the heart of Squirrel Hill's business district by delivering great music, shopping, food, and art in a cosmopolitan, open-street setting. Crowd estimates were 10,000 attendees per market and projections for total economic impact were hundreds of thousands of dollars.
STREET STAGE
Launched Summer 2015
Together with our partners, the City of Pittsburgh and Shift Collaborative, we created a public performance space in the heart of Squirrel Hill. The intersection of Forbes and Murray has more foot traffic than any intersection in the city and we delivered live evening performances in an effort to enliven and energize our shared public spaces.
lunar new year parade
Launched February 2016 - Murray Avenue
Together with over a dozen local partners, we hosted Pittsburgh's FIRST Chinese new year parade in the heart of its most socio-economically diverse neighborhood. With thirty-one Asian owned businesses, Squirrel Hill is the center of an important and growing community. A 21st Century Chinatown. Worlds collided in beautiful new ways, as a parade of 300 people and 20+ Asian organizations, including many dragons, drums, and dumplings, celebrated on a six block stretch of historic Murray Avenue.
Purim Pittsburgh
Launched March 2016 - Murray Avenue / Darlington Road
The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia and is celebrated as a day of "feasting and gladness." Squirrel Hill is home to half of the regional Jewish population and Murray Ave is its heart and soul. Together with Repair The World Pittsburgh, J'Burgh, the JCC, The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Children's Service, and over 20 other organizations, we celebrated the Pittsburgh Jewish community's century old connection to Squirrel Hill and to an ancient heritage, with bands, food, rides, plays, games, costumes and snow!
