Forged x Four Enterprise Zone

10/14/2026

It's a packed week with events from MoVERS, Rep. Salisbury, the Emma Munson Foundation, Allegheny County Health Department, Mon Valley Initiative, Rankin Christian Center, BEN communities, and the Rankin Croatian Home.

09/14/2026

09/01/2026

Braddock Avenue once had so many stores that people came in from other boroughs to shop there. Today you can stand in the middle of it and count the buildings. 🏢

At its peak, Braddock held around twenty thousand people packed into a borough you can walk across in twenty minutes. The mill at the edge of town ran around the clock, and the avenue ran on mill wages. Department stores, five and dimes, theaters, jewelers, bakeries, furniture stores, doctors' offices upstairs. People who grew up there in the forties and fifties describe getting off the streetcar and not being able to move on a Saturday.

Today the borough is under two thousand people. Most of the avenue is vacant lots, and the buildings that remain stand alone with daylight on both sides of them. But two things did not leave. The mill is still there and still making steel, more than a hundred and fifty years after it opened. And the library is still open, a heavy stone building with a music hall and a swimming pool inside, the first library Andrew Carnegie built in this country, saved from demolition by people in the town who refused to let it go. 📚

If you have people from Braddock, what do they still talk about, and what was on the avenue when they were young?

08/07/2026

August 10 deadline!

The Pennsylvania CDFI Network in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) is delivering statewide support for historically disadvantaged businesses through the Historically Disadvantaged Business Assistance (HDBA) Program.

Through more than $14 million in HDBA funding, including a $5.84 million Business Assistance Service Center (BASC) award and an $8.45 million Microgrant award, entrepreneurs across all 67 counties of Pennsylvania can access business assessments, one-on-one counseling, group training, business planning support, professional services, contract procurement, and opportunities to access microgrant funding of up to $20,000, as well as loan capital.

PA CDFI Network Business Assistance Service Centers (BASC) & Microgrants Programs Supporting historically disadvantaged entrepreneurs through business c ...

07/21/2026

In Trundle Manor, the dead outnumber the living — mummified cats, mice preserved in jars, the bust of a moose named Pierre with one antler pointed downward, like one owned by the Addams Family.

But Anton Mireillo, who goes by the moniker Mr. Arm, insists none of it is meant to be unsettling.

Part roadside attraction, part art installation, Trundle Manor in Swissvale is a celebration of the weird and the quirky: the still-growing life's work of Anton and Rachel Miriello, a married couple of artists who have spent the past 16 years turning their home into a museum of taxidermy, medical oddities and the plain bizarre.

Read more at the link in our comments.

07/13/2026

This Thursday! An opportunity to meet and ask questions of representatives from US Steel.

06/18/2026

Today's the day: a blood drive will take place at Braddock Carnegie Library in memory of North Braddock teen, Nichole Denise Hogan.

06/10/2026

The Braddock farm stand, located at 1000 Braddock Ave, is open for the season! Catch them Wednesdays and Fridays from 3p-6p and Saturdays from 9a-1p. Grow Pittsburgh

06/08/2026

How many Mon Valley locations can you spot? The new trailer for How To Rob A Bank is out!

06/04/2026

Check out this property for lease on Braddock Ave! 224 Braddock Avenue is one of the first buildings you see crossing into Braddock from Rankin. This 5,500 sq ft building was renovated in 2021 and features two 10' x 10' drive-in doors and 500 sq ft of dedicated office space.