Neighborhood of the week: Bloomfield (Pittsburgh, Millvale: neighborhoods, taxes, store)

[DaisyDaisy]

I like Bloomfield. A friend sold a house there over the summer. It was on the market for a week.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Bloomfield is indeed on the low side for tree canopy in Pittsburgh.



Of course, this map tracks all trees, not trees visible from the street. You can look at street tree coverage here, though you have to futz with th efilters to turn them on. Some Bloomfield steets, like the lower part of Cedarville, Indeed have no trees at all.

Wow, you certainly do notice much less green in Bloomfield compared to places like Lawrenceville, South Side, etc.

[eschaton]

Bumping this to note that big changes are maybe coming to Bloomfield. Developers want to replace the ShurSave with a new mixed-use building:



Recent news report...

Some NIMBYs are already NIMBYing.

[svband76]

Ugly, looks like any other building in any other city. More demolition under Demo Man Peduto. So no basic grocery store in Bloomfield? This is a black eye for the neighborhood. But hey, Peduto loves the developer money to fund his re-elections so this isn't surprising at all.

[Moby Hick]

I was wondering how long that store could stay in business with all the new competition from two different Aldis.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

Ugly, looks like any other building in any other city. More demolition under Demo Man Peduto. So no grocery store in Bloomfield? This is a black eye for the neighborhood. But hey, Peduto loves the developer money to fund his re-elections so this isn't surprising at all.

The developers actually want a grocery store there, although they haven't lined up a tenant yet. And the new building will allow for space for a larger grocery store than the old one.

That said, a depressingly possible outcome is NIMBYs force the developer to scale back (reducing the height to three stories, reducing the FAR, etc), and in order to recoup the reduction in profitability, the grocery store (which won't make them much, if any money) is scrapped in exchange for either first-floor apartments or more structured parking.

Edit: Also, Bloomfield has an Aldi now on Penn Avenue, plus two remaining Italian markets and a greengrocer. It's far from a food desert, having a better selection of food retail than nearly anywhere else in the city.

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Edit: Also, Bloomfield has an Aldi now on Penn Avenue, plus two remaining Italian markets and a greengrocer. It's far from a food desert, having a better selection of food retail than nearly anywhere else in the city.

Where can you buy a pint of Haagen-Dazs, though, in that neighborhood, without spending $5-6 at RiteAid?

[gg]

Originally Posted by zalewskimm

Ugly, looks like any other building in any other city. More demolition under Demo Man Peduto. So no basic grocery store in Bloomfield? This is a black eye for the neighborhood. But hey, Peduto loves the developer money to fund his re-elections so this isn't surprising at all.

Geez, I think that Sure Save is a dump. Pretty much anything would be an improvement.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by gg

Geez, I think that Sure Save is a dump. Pretty much anything would be an improvement.

When I first moved to Pittsburgh, I lived in Bloomfield, on a back alley behind Liberty. I shopped in the predecessor of the Shur Save (Foodland) once and only once, because it was so nasty that the proximity wasn't really a plus. I hear it's gotten slightly better since, but still, a different grocery store would be much appreciated.

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by eschaton

When I first moved to Pittsburgh, I lived in Bloomfield, on a back alley behind Liberty. I shopped in the predecessor of the Shur Save (Foodland) once and only once, because it was so nasty that the proximity wasn't really a plus. I hear it's gotten slightly better since, but still, a different grocery store would be much appreciated.

The year I lived in Lawrenceville, it was my closest supermarket (I forget in which incarnation). It was the year I shopped almost exclusively in the Strip District.