Doughboy Square

[Geeo]

It still looks like an Eat 'n' Park to this day. The area in the blocks of the 30s down to Doughboy Square is really looking nice these days.

[nuwaver88]

Originally Posted by Geeo

It still looks like an Eat 'n' Park to this day. The area in the blocks of the 30s down to Doughboy Square is really looking nice these days.

It looks nice in the north side of the street. The south side of Butler in the thirties needs work, although this is where Round Corner Cantina is. I still wish Rite Aid would build a new store directly on Butler rather than the one that is old and sits back several hundred feet. This would greatly improve and connect Lawrenceville from the thirties to the forties. What I have in mind is something like the Rite Aid multifunctiional building on Forbes and and Murray. I would also try to add some color to the area around Arsenal School. It just seems so gray.

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by Blackbeauty212

right across Butler from Arsenal next to the Rite-Aid going toward 39th old brown dinner looking building...Warehouse directly behind it.

Thanks. I'll check that out. There's so much space between Rite-Aid and Butler Street, I thought it might've been located where the parking lot now stands. (What is the point of all that space? There're never more than ten cars parked there.)

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by nuwaver88

It looks nice in the north side of the street. The south side of Butler in the thirties needs work, although this is where Round Corner Cantina is. I still wish Rite Aid would build a new store directly on Butler rather than the one that is old and sits back several hundred feet. This would greatly improve and connect Lawrenceville from the thirties to the forties. What I have in mind is something like the Rite Aid multifunctiional building on Forbes and and Murray. I would also try to add some color to the area around Arsenal School. It just seems so gray.

I wish they'd move that Rite Aid out of Squirrel Hill and give back the Gulf station, that wonderfully low-slung taste of mid-century America. I loved that Gulf station at Forbes and Murray. Also thanks to Rite Aid, you can't see the JCC clock anymore unless you're on the other side of Forbes. I didn't go in that store for more than two years, I so hated its existence. It took a late-night emergency prescription to get me in there. It was such a cool Gulf station.

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by Geeo

It still looks like an Eat 'n' Park to this day.

You'd think an Eat n Park would do well in L'ville. Why did it close? And when?

[pman]

After its first phase sold out quickly, the development team seeking to revitalize Doughboy Square, a gateway hodge podge of underused properties in Lawrenceville, is ready to move forward on its next project, an approximately 30,000-square-foot building on the site of a former rim shop next to the Roberto Clemente Museum.
Alfred DePasquale expects...to break ground on a building in late summer or early fall that will add 12 to 15 condominiums to the neighborhood, joined by a first floor retail space of 6,000 to 7,000 square

Next Doughboy Square project moving forward - Pittsburgh Business Times