Neighborhood Programs
Friendship
Friendship is a vibrant, diverse neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End, located within a few miles of Downtown Pittsburgh, universities such as Carnegie Mellon and Pitt, world-class medical facilities, and thriving residential and commercial neighborhoods such as Shadyside, East Liberty, and Bloomfield. Friendship’s eclectic mix of Victorian, Edwardian, and Arts and Crafts houses and new loft spaces are home to professionals, artists, and students.
Along with beautiful homes, Friendship features excellent access by public transportation and walking to other areas of the city. It has a community park, Baum Grove, and a state-of-the-art playground at Pittsburgh Montessori, the neighborhood’s public school. Neighborhood events include a spring Folk and Flower Festival at Baum Grove and a fall house tour that in 2006 celebrated its 13th year.
A monthly arts event sponsored by the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative (PAAI), Unblurred, features the many artists and craftspeople who live and work on the neighborhood’s main street, Penn Avenue.
Along with beautiful homes, Friendship features excellent access by public transportation and walking to other areas of the city. It has a community park, Baum Grove, and a state-of-the-art playground at Pittsburgh Montessori, the neighborhood’s public school. Neighborhood events include a spring Folk and Flower Festival at Baum Grove and a fall house tour that in 2006 celebrated its 13th year.
A monthly arts event sponsored by the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative (PAAI), Unblurred, features the many artists and craftspeople who live and work on the neighborhood’s main street, Penn Avenue.
Friendship is home to the dance companies Dance Alloy and Attack Theatre, and to the Pittsburgh Glass Center, a glassmaking and exhibition center whose guest artists hail from all over the world. Friendship’s success is bolstered by two sister community organizations, Friendship Development Associates (FDA) and Friendship Preservation Group (FPG), founded in 1989.
FDA, a community development corporation, has renovated two dozen residential and commercial properties, and has fostered the development of Penn Avenue. FDA recently assumed the management of Friendship’s state-funded Mainstreets and Elm Street programs, whose “clean, safe and green” philosophy coordinates well with the work of FPG, a strong membership and advocacy organization.
Once a prestigious late 19th and early 20th century “streetcar suburb” – Friendship now offers a new and exciting style of urban living to students, professionals, artists, growing families, and seniors alike.
FDA, a community development corporation, has renovated two dozen residential and commercial properties, and has fostered the development of Penn Avenue. FDA recently assumed the management of Friendship’s state-funded Mainstreets and Elm Street programs, whose “clean, safe and green” philosophy coordinates well with the work of FPG, a strong membership and advocacy organization.
Once a prestigious late 19th and early 20th century “streetcar suburb” – Friendship now offers a new and exciting style of urban living to students, professionals, artists, growing families, and seniors alike.
