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Does it have a walkable business district or standard suburban strip malls? Or both?
No walkable business district. Scott does have some commercial development however. A small portion of Washington Pike is located in the township, which includes the site of a Wal Mart and Lowes, and then a mini-business district between Heidelberg and Carnegie. In addition, much of the commercial development located around the intersection of Greentree and Cochran Rd is in Scott.
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Originally Posted by PGH423
Interesting. I asked because I own a house in Ross and I remember when the Ross thread was here a few weeks ago, someone said Scott is a similar first-ring suburb. That said, eschaton called it a second-ring suburb here.
Geographically Scott is only technically a first ring suburb because it has a tiny slice of land near East Carnegie - which has no road connection to the rest of the township. In terms of built form, I tend to use the term first-ring suburb to refer to areas built out prior to the 1950s suburban boom. For the most part, Scott is postwar, thus I think it's more accurate to call it a second-ring suburb.
Does it have a walkable business district or standard suburban strip malls? Or both?
It used to, sorta, not any more.
Crossing over the bridge to Glendale from Carnegie, Carothers Avenue was the start of Scott Twp. Many different mom & pop stores there 50-60 yrs ago, bakeries, sm grocery stores, offices, the fire Dept. Then at the light at the top of the hill you could turn left and head down Washington Avenue back to Carnegie.
If you went straight onto Hope Hollow Rd, and then made a left, it lead you to the bottom of Green Tree Rd and Cochran Rd. Turning Right got you onto Rte 50, which went to Heidelberg (mmm, Wright’s Seafood Inn! The racetrack...the yearly biker convention, which was scary ) then onward and up to Great Southern Shpg Ctr and then Bridgeville.
These all were areas that did have small shopable, walkable streets, but so many just went out of business, it just faded. Now you have the scattered stripmalls and box stores. Glendale was the original area, then Scott expanded with the new housing developments after WWII. It’s not very organized, it just spread, and most people drive thru it on their way to other places.
Crossing over the bridge to Glendale from Carnegie, Carothers Avenue was the start of Scott Twp. Many different mom & pop stores there 50-60 yrs ago, bakeries, sm grocery stores, offices, the fire Dept. Then at the light at the top of the hill you could turn left and head down Washington Avenue back to Carnegie.
If you went straight onto Hope Hollow Rd, and then made a left, it lead you to the bottom of Green Tree Rd and Cochran Rd. Turning Right got you onto Rte 50, which went to Heidelberg (mmm, Wright’s Seafood Inn! The racetrack...the yearly biker convention, which was scary ) then onward and up to Great Southern Shpg Ctr and then Bridgeville.
These all were areas that did have small shopable, walkable streets, but so many just went out of business, it just faded. Now you have the scattered stripmalls and box stores. Glendale was the original area, then Scott expanded with the new housing developments after WWII. It’s not very organized, it just spread, and most people drive thru it on their way to other places.
So the old portion between Carnegie and Heidelberg was called Glendale?
That whole area between the railroad tracks, up the hill following Magazine St and down to the old Superior Mill site, and then back up the hill to area around old St Ignatius. St. joseph’s Cemetery is there where most of my ancestors are buried.
I grew up there, and also in Carnegie (ker-NEG-gie!) itself on Cubbage Hill. 😁
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) then onward and up to Great Southern Shpg Ctr and then Bridgeville.
