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Monday, January 26, 2009
Eat'n Park restaurants will serve breakfast and lunch this Sunday, but the entire chain will close at 3 p.m. for the Super Bowl.
This will be the first time that Homestead-based Eat'n Park Hospitality Group has closed or shortened its restaurants' hours, other than on a major holiday, spokesman Adam Golomb said today.
That includes Super Bowl Sunday three years ago, when the Steelers faced the Seattle Seahawks. "We learned it was the wrong decision back then" to stay open, he said, and there were few customers.
Another consideration is that many of the 6,000 local managers, cooks, waitresses and other restaurant staff want to watch the game, which starts at 6 p.m. he said.
The shutdown won't affect just the 46 Eat'n Parks in the Pittsburgh market. "We're closing the whole company down," meaning all 80 locations, Golomb said.
Support for the Steelers is strong in many other regions where the restaurants are located, the company reasoned.
"Probably, the only area where people won't want to cheer for the Steelers is Cleveland," he said, but most Eat'n Park customers who are Browns fans, too, will want to watch the big game. Seven restaurants are in the Cleveland area.
All the Eat'n Parks will reopen at 6 a.m. Monday.
In our community, there are volunteers working every day to help feed the hungry, house exchange students, promote literacy, and in general help citizens of the Steel Valley.
Sunday February 1, 2009
The outlet is expected to open in early 2009 as part of a development under construction by Walnut Capital Partners of Shadyside. It is the company's fourth restaurant opened or planned to date in southwestern Pennsylvania. A site in Robinson is open, a second is under construction near Uniontown, and a third is planned for the Cedarwood project in Butler Township.
Steve Esposito, commercial real estate broker with CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh, negotiated IHop's purchase of the Squirrel Hill site from Walnut Capital for $1.05 million. He said the traditional IHop restaurant is about 5,000 square feet.
By Mike Beamish,Don Berger, Mitch’s dad, was born in Homestead, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb and grew up in the borough of Whitaker Pa.,
VANCOUVER — The Super Mitch Berger — two 18-ounce patties of hand-ground prime beef, sauteed mushrooms, Canadian back bacon, cheddar cheese and a special sauce dubbed Mitch’s Mayo — will make its exclusive appearance on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1, at Players Chop House in Vancouver.
After being the butt of cheap jokes for years, Pittsburgh Steelers punter Mitch Berger has finally agreed to allow his name to be used as a menu item. But Super Bowl celebrants at the restaurant, co-owned by Berger and business partner Rob Ward, had better enjoy their Super Mitch Bergers (yes, that’s the way they’re spelling burger) while they can. This is a special deal, a one-day-only thing.
“With the last name Berger, Mitch has been made fun of for years,” says Ward. “We’ve discussed having a Mitch burger before, but he’s always shrugged it off. Now we’re doing it for the first time, with his blessing, because of the Super Bowl.”
After 14 NFL seasons, the punter-restaurateur from North Delta, B.C., is finally getting his kick at football’s penultimate prize.
Berger, 36, is with his ninth NFL team and has been close to making the Super Bowl before. He was with the Minnesota Vikings in 2001 and in 1999, the year the Vikes suffered a crushing overtime loss to the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC championship game. In 2006, with New Orleans, Berger was injured and on the sidelines when the Saints went marching down to the Chicago Bears in the NFC title game.
“It’s huge for Mitch,” says Berger’s older brother, Mike. “But it’s pretty huge for my dad, too. It will be the first Super Bowl he’s ever gone to, with Mitch playing for my dad’s favourite team.”
Don Berger, Mitch’s dad, was born in Homestead, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb and grew up in the borough of Whitaker, also in the Pittsburgh metro area. He’s bled Steeler black and gold since birth, even though the Pittsburgh teams of his youth where some of pro football’s champion losers. In their first 35 years under owner Art Rooney, the Steelers never earned so much as a divisional title. Don Berger’s memory bank stretches to a time before the Super Bowl eras of Terry Bradshaw (1975-76 and 1979-80) and Ben Roethlisberger (2006), back to Jim Finks. The Steelers quarterback from 1949-55, Finks later coached the Calgary Stampeders for eight seasons before moving on to management in the NFL.
“They were average, nothing special back then,” Don remembers. “But being a Pittsburgh native, the Steelers have always been my team. . . . I’ve got Terrible Towels, Steeler mugs, flags and a picture of Super Bowl legends — Mike Webster, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Terry Bradshaw.”
Don Berger was 17 when he left Pittsburgh after enlisting in the U.S. air force. Later, he was posted to a radar base in Sioux Lookout, a small, largely aboriginal community in northwestern Ontario where he met his future wife, Evelyn. She was from Winnipeg and met Don on her first day on the job as a waitress.
They were married five months later. She was 19. He was 20.
“I was trying to get away from Winnipeg for the summer and I ended up with a husband,” Evelyn says.
“We’re closing in on 50 years (together).”
Don later taught physical education at residential schools with the Department of Indian Affairs, from Swan River, Man., to Kamloops, B.C., where Mitch was born in June 1972. The family eventually settled in North Delta, when Don transferred to Employment and Immigration Canada.
Although Don Berger has been a B.C. Lions season ticket holder since the team played at Empire Stadium, Mitch, who holds dual citizenship, maintained his focus stateside. As a youngster, he drew his inspiration from Sunday afternoon and Monday night heroes such as Bradshaw and legendary Bears running back Walter Payton.
“We were raised as American athletic kids living in Canada,” Mitch says. “I never played hockey or lacrosse like Canadian kids. I don’t know those sports or even what the rules are.”
Mitch was taken in the sixth round of the 1994 NFL college draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.
After being cut by the Eagles and the Bears, Berger eventually caught on with the Vikings, twice made All-Pro and he has had some prolonged hang time in the NFL ever since.
The Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh’s opponent in Super Bowl XLIII, represented Berger’s eighth team last season. The Steelers are his ninth. And the fact he is still with them is serendipitous. Berger won the job in pre-season after the Steelers’ regular punter, Daniel Sepulveda, tore the ACL in his right knee and was put on injured reserve for the rest of the season.
During the Steelers’ bye week in mid-October, however, Berger began experiencing problems himself after his hamstrings cramped up on a flight back home. When he tried to play through the injury without success, the Steelers wanted to place him on injured reserve, making him ineligible for the rest of the season. Nixing that idea, Berger convinced the Steelers to release him, then he returned to his off-season home in Scottsdale, Ariz., to rehab his hammies. The gamble paid off when the Steelers re-hired Berger after his replacement, Paul Ernster, struggled in his stead.
Now, Berger’s dad, mom, brother Mike, sisters Melissa, Lynette, Debbie and their husbands all will be in Tampa to see him play in the game that is full of attention-grabbing arithmetic. A record 97.5 million American TV viewers watched at least part of last year’s Super Bowl. In Canada, 10 million saw at least a segment of the game.
“He’s played ball for a long time, he’s had some injuries and he’s never given up,” says Don Berger. “The timing is right. Unbelievable, actually. To see my son play for my team, the Steelers, in a Super Bowl . . . It’s really a dream come true.”
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Munhall Volunteer Fire Company. No. 1 will hold its annual oldies dance from 7 to 11 p.m. Jan. 31 at St. John Cathedral Hall, West Run Road.
Thursday, January 22, 2009 You may have a big honking TV -- biggest on the block -- but it is nothing compared to an IMAX screen.
And that is why theater operators and movie studios have been building or installing them at megaplexes around the country, to convince people that sometimes it's not better to wait for the movie in the mailbox or on pay-per-view.
A digital IMAX auditorium will open Friday at the AMC-Loews at the Waterfront, just in time for the re-release everywhere of "The Dark Knight," which has six spectacular sequences filmed with IMAX cameras including the opening six minutes.
"The biggest thing that they should expect is that they're going to feel like they're actually in the movie because the screen will take up most of their field of view, and they're going to be knocked over by a sound system that's going to blow them out the doors," Larry O'Reilly, executive vice president of theater development for IMAX Corp., said this week.
"You can't escape from the movie; you actually feel like you're in the midst of it. Whereas in conventional cinema, there's a bit of a gap between the front row of the theater and the screen and you sit back and observe."
IMAX places the audience as close as possible to the screen, here measuring 50.2 feet wide by 28 feet high, and immerses it in sound designed for the space at hand. "We actually install it using lasers, that's how accurate is the positioning of the speakers."
At AMC-Loews, construction has been under way for a couple of weeks and employees have been briefed on the technology and potential questions from patrons. Among them may be inquiries about the price since IMAX tickets at the Waterfront will cost an additional $3 each. Customers will not be able to buy specific seats in the IMAX auditorium, the way they can in the VIP sections.
The idea of a supersize screen is not new to Pittsburgh.
The Carnegie Science Center boasts an Omnimax Theater, and the Cinemark theater at the Frazer mall near Tarentum includes an IMAX auditorium. When "The Dark Knight" debuted in July, Cinemark was the only nearby place that could show it in IMAX.
Asked how the AMC-Loews will compare to the other venues, O'Reilly says, "In the Omnimax or IMAX dome configuration, the screen comes right up and over the audience, which provides a great level of immersion and is really effective in particular on space films or underwater films because you feel like you really are under water."
As for the Cinemark auditorium, O'Reilly said, "That will be much more in keeping with what you can expect at the AMC location."
AMC built IMAX theaters in Manhattan, Los Angeles and San Francisco from the ground up but, more commonly, has been converting existing auditoriums as in Pittsburgh. Retrofitted locations here and in New Orleans are the 32nd and 33rd, with many more to come.
In addition to "The Dark Knight," a string of movies made for IMAX will be released in 2009, including "Watchmen," "Under the Sea 3D" narrated by Jim Carrey, "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Star Trek," "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," Disney's "A Christmas Carol" and "Avatar."
Some of those movies will feature 3-D scenes -- which the IMAX at AMC-Loews can accommodate -- and some will not.
Filmgoers may have to pay more attention if they plan to see a movie available in 3-D digital or 3-D digital IMAX or just plain old 2-D, which is the old-fashioned, traditional projection.
Consider the options available for "Beowulf" patrons in November 2007. "They could go to the multiplex and they could see it in 2-D if they wanted to, and that was probably a better experience than they were going to get at home," O'Reilly said.
"They could see it in digital 3-D, and that was a slight premium or they could see it in IMAX 3-D, which is the very top end, and so they had the choice of which kind of price point they wanted to hit and what kind of experience they wanted to have."
Although the digital IMAX equipment is sophisticated, it requires a smaller footprint in the projection booth than film would. "When we did the first three film-based locations, they had to actually knock walls out in the booth ... but we don't have to do that anymore," O'Reilly said.
In the battle for dollars from increasingly cautious consumers, IMAX is just one more weapon being used to lure people away from their TV sets, home theater systems and computers.
"IMAX has become more and more prominent, especially as far as feature films are concerned. There's definite demand for a grander theatrical experience," Brandon Gray of boxofficemojo.com said this week.
"Weeks after the normal theaters have dwindled, the IMAX theaters are still selling tickets. I just recall 'The Dark Knight' still had lines around the corner for the IMAX version when the box office overall was not nearly as high as it was."
As O'Reilly says, "By offering VIP [seating], by bringing in specialty food in some cases, by having a digital 3-D upgrade and an IMAX 2-D or 3-D experience, you're able to keep people coming out of their home and getting them off the couch, which is key to the industry going forward."
A sign outside the Filene's Basement store at The Waterfront in Homestead indicated it is closing.
According to a report in The Boston Globe, the Burlington, Mass.-based discount retailer is closing 11 of its 36 stores due to challenges in renegotiating rents at some of its locations.
A call to Filene's parent company, Retail Ventures Inc., was not immediately returned Wednesday morning.
The company, founded in 1909 and renowned for its low prices and annual bridal gown sale, is headquartered in Burlington.
The Waterfront store opened in 2002.
Information on a final closing date for The Waterfront store, or on other stores slated for closure, was not immediately available Wednesday.
John Matta, (Munhall, PA) who just turned 20, was diagnosed with a bone disorder as well as a nerve problem when he was 11 years old. He has curvature of the spine and muscle weakness and is still being treated at Children's as part of the program. He is grateful that his pain can be somehow managed. Matta wants to be a music teacher and is a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where he said he tries to live a normal life. The parents show up at doctors' offices scared and frustrated.
Their son or daughter is sick, and no one can tell them why.
"Sometimes it ends up being kind of a mystery illness; other times not," said Dr. Sara McIntire, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
McIntire is among more than a dozen pediatricians who run a service to provide answers to medical problems that stump the most astute experts. Often with uncanny precision, doctors at the Paul C. Gaffney Diagnostic Referral Service take the mystery out of an unexplained back pain, a lingering cough or an itchy rash.
They are detectives of sorts for people who exhaust other options in what can be an exhausting medical maze.
"Sometimes we're asked to be a detective about things that other people can't quite understand," McIntire said. "The real crux of the problem is why the person is asking for help in the first place."
University of Pittsburgh student John Matta's case exemplifies the program's value, he said.
When Matta came to the Diagnostic Referral Service at age 11, he complained of a constant back pain. He had curvature of the spine and bones that were abnormal in texture and shape, but doctors didn't know why.
After tests that included bone biopsies, doctors diagnosed a rare bone condition. McIntire also was surprised her evaluation uncovered striking neurologic findings: weakness in Matta's hands and feet, wasted muscles and limited reflexes. It was clear that, separate from his bone condition, he had major nerve problems.
"I was more confused rather than frustrated," Matta, 20, said about the uncertainty of his health.
His illnesses aren't cured, but they are treated and carefully monitored, something that allows him to attend college with the goal of teaching music.
"It's a comforting feeling knowing that they're trying to do something," he said.
Medicine has been slow to embrace services to help people deal with mystery ailments, experts said. The program at Children's is one of only a few nationwide, which include pediatric hospitals in Philadelphia and Cincinnati and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
"It takes a lot of expertise to set up a clinic like this, and it takes a large team of interdisciplinary colleagues," said Dr. Chad K. Brands, director of the Mayo Clinic's Pediatric Diagnostic and Referral Clinic.
Last year the federal government launched the Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institutes of Health. That program has been swamped with patients since it started in July 2008, logging more than 500 cases involving children and adults.
"Many of the patients we get have been at the best centers in the country," said Dr. John I. Gallin, director of the NIH Clinical Center, the federal hospital in Bethesda, Md., devoted to clinical research. "You have to have patience, and you have to have a facility that can fund a long-term study that sometimes doesn't bring the answers."
Children tend to be accepted into the NIH program faster than adults, said Dr. William A. Gahl, the program's director.
"Adults have a lot of aches and pains, but there is no clue to go by," Gahl said. "The kids are in wheelchairs, they have neurological deficits; it's clear that they really have something."
The program at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh dates to the late 1960s, when pediatric subspecialties were emerging and pediatricians did not consult specialized counterparts.
Improved diagnostic tools make it easier to pin down often rare genetic diseases. Doctors field calls daily from physicians across the country who are seeking information about a specific illness, or those whose patients want a second opinion.
"They are doctors who have more experience dealing with more complicated problems that we might see once in a career or once every 10 years," said Dr. Jim Tucker, a pediatrician in the O'Hara office of Children's Community Pediatrics. "It is a very valuable service. They've got these less-common diseases very well organized in their minds, and they can order a battery of tests and come up with an answer in a much more efficient way."
The service is not failure-proof, and there are times when even the diagnostic experts are stumped.
"Most of the time you're able to generate a list of likely possibilities," McIntire said. "But there are times when you just feel like I really don't know what's going on with this patient."
When that happens, the doctors at the diagnostic referral service turn to each other, at biweekly meetings during which they can describe their most confounding cases. Often, that's all it takes.
"Sometimes it's easier to recognize something when someone is describing it to you," McIntire said. "You can be staring right at something, and you don't know what it is."
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January 15, 2009Law enforcement and government authorities from communities surrounding the Waterfront retail complex have a message for would-be criminals:
Get ready for your close-up.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala yesterday hosted a lunchtime presentation of a proposed $100,000 surveillance camera system that would be similar to the "Ring of Steel" network currently planned for the city of Pittsburgh.
Both programs received funding through Homeland Security grants. Mr. Zappala secured a $75,000 grant for the Waterfront system, and officials said they were confident the remaining $25,000 could be obtained through a matching grant request by the Steel Valley Council of Governments.
"This has been my baby, cameras at the Waterfront," said Homestead Mayor Betty Esper.
The system would create a "mesh" of wireless video surveillance, stretching across the 430-acre complex. The Waterfront property is located in Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall.
Digital cameras capable of greater detail than that of traditional analog video would be mounted on buildings and even the AMC Loews Waterfront Theater sign, with an initial focus on the four entrances to the Waterfront.
Eventually, the system could be expanded to include neighboring streets, such as Seventh and Eighth avenues in Homestead.
Not only would the cameras record video, they could be programmed to alert police should they recognize a license plate number previously red-flagged in a database of known offenders.
The software program, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), is not new, but it is vastly improved, said John Hudson, director of technical security for Red Five Security of McLean, Va., the company that would install the system.
The images can be monitored as constant surveillance, or used as backup as incidents occur. Homestead Chief of Police Jeff DeSimone recalled a burglary several years back that involved closing off the area around the Waterfront.
Using the new system in such a situation today, he said, police would have video of the suspect, his direction of flight and the kind of vehicle he's driving, including the license plate number.
With a force of 12 full-time and four part-time officers, the Homestead police can't be everywhere. The proposed system, said Chief DeSimone, is "better than what we have now."
"Right now, we don't know how many wanted cars pass through the community in a day."
Video can be stored for up to three months, at least initially, said Mr. Hudson, who has his own Beaver County-based security firm, J.P. Hudson and Associates.
"There is not necessarily a problem, but a perceived problem [of crime in the area]," said Mr. Zappala as he introduced Mr. Hudson at the Rock Bottom restaurant.
Two shootings last summer -- including the death of a 19-year-old as he was closing up during his job at Damon's restaurant -- are nonetheless a troubling reminder.
"This [system] is something I told [Mr. Zappala] I wanted after the Damon's incident," Ms. Esper said. "This will be a real deterrent to crime."
According to Mr. Zappala, if the matching funds come through, the system can be operational within 90 days.
Saturday January 31, 2009
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By Kim Leonard, TRIBUNE-REVIEWCentury III Mall owner Simon Property Group Inc. said Friday it's working to find new tenants or uses for two large, anchor store spaces that will be emptied through liquidation sales.
Jackets, skirts and T-shirts were selling for a few dollars each this week at Steve & Barry's, which is closing all its stores. Sofas, tables and other furniture pieces will be sold off starting Wednesday at a Macy's Furniture Gallery and clearance center.
The West Mifflin retail complex has battled rumors in recent years that it is on the verge of closing. Real estate firms have said the mall has been marketed for sale in recent years, but Simon has said it doesn't discuss any plans to sell properties.
"There is no plan as of right now, but we have an active leasing department that is trying to find other uses for that space," Century III's Marketing Manager Chris Jamison said of Steve & Barry's.
Possibilities include using the first-floor space for special events, at least for the time being, she said. The furniture store is being targeted for an "even more appealing" new use, Simon spokesman Les Morris said after Macy's announcement Thursday that it will close that location and 10 other underperforming stores.
Together, Steve & Barry's and Macy's represent more than 10 percent of the space at the 1.29-million-square-foot West Mifflin mall, where the vacancy rate already was running at above 20 percent two years ago.
"Ruby Tuesday's restaurant closed. Steve & Barry's is closing. It's a sign of the times, I guess," Christopher Kurzawa of Upper St. Clair said this week as he left Steve & Barry's with two bags of clearance items. Still, Century III is a nice, convenient place to shop and a good place to bring his family, he said.
Jamison and mall Manager Gina Mercorelli said yesterday that Century III has about 120 stores with four large anchors -- a Macy's department store that will remain open, plus Dick's Sporting Goods, J.C. Penney and Sears. In the past, the store count was listed as high as 180.
The mall that will celebrate its 30th birthday later this year is in the midst of a Route 51 commercial district that features a Super Wal-Mart, Kohl's and other major retailers next door at Century Ridge Crossing, and restaurants and shops at other centers.
According to data released yesterday, retailers cut 522,000 jobs in 2008, the worst year since 1939 for workers in the industry, and layoffs are expected to continue as more stores close. The Macy's furniture outlet has three employees, while a Macy's department store that is closing in Natrona Heights has 124 workers.
Ruby Tuesday's closed Dec. 7, and the restaurant chain said it has shut down or will close around 70 stores. K Bee Toys is liquidating stock at Century III and other locales. Whitehall Jewelers, another retailer quitting business, has shut down at the mall, and another jeweler, Citron, has posted store closing signs.
Duquesne University marketing professor Audrey Guskey said Century III remains "a nice mall, and at one point it was the mall to go to." Still, shoppers are willing to travel farther, to the expanded Ross Park Mall, for example, and to the new Tanger Outlet Center near Washington.
"My understanding is that Tanger did well this season" and pulled shoppers away from South Hills Village and retailers in Robinson, as well as Century III, Guskey said.
By MICHAEL DIVITTORIO, Daily News Staff WriterHomestead council unanimously approved the settlement at Thursday night's meeting. Council Vice President Lynette Mariner, Councilwoman Susan Titmus and councilmen Jonathan Stewart, Donald Purifoy and the Rev. Donald Turner were present and voted in favor.
Those absent were President Drew Borcik and councilors Jack Myers, Marvin Brown and Georgianetta Miller. Turner said a prayer after the Pledge of Allegiance for Borcik, Myers and Miller, who were dealing with health issues. There was no explanation given for Brown's absence.
Homestead officials filed a petition with the Allegheny County courts attempting to establish a "2-2-2 system," giving residents from Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall a guaranteed two-seat representation on the school board.
The 1-1-1 system settlement proposal was made in late December after months of negotiations, Homestead solicitor Bernie Schneider explained.
The three proposed voting districts are set up in the following manner: one is comprised of Homestead and wards 9, 1, 2 and 3 of Munhall; a second with West Homestead and wards 4 and 5 of Munhall; and a third comprised of Munhall's remaining wards.
District 1 would have more than 4,500 resident; District 2 would have more than 3,300 residents; and District 3 would have almost 4,200.
Homestead Mayor Betty Esper said she's not entirely happy with the agreement, but wants to move forward.
"We're just going along with the flow," she said. "Why should we be happy? We pay taxes. We're going along with it. They're not giving us that board (seat), we have to run for that board ... It doesn't give us the seats. It gives us an advantage."
"It ought to make the election interesting," Mariner said. "We'll have at least one person on it, so that will be a good thing."
Stewart encourages borough residents to take an active role in the district election process in order to ensure a voice from the borough is heard.
"We have to be active politically," he said.
Friday, January 09, 2009 A new IMAX theater at the AMC-Loews at the Waterfront will open Jan. 23 with the re-release of "The Dark Knight." Work is now under way to convert auditorium 13 to an IMAX house with 350 seats. As is typical, those tickets will carry an additional $3 charge.
All signs point to "Dark Knight" returning on a cushion of Oscar nominations, being announced Jan. 22. Its director, Christopher Nolan, has been nominated by the Directors Guild of America for its top honor.
Also in contention for the DGA award, to be handed out Jan. 31: Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire," David Fincher for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Ron Howard for "Frost/Nixon" and Gus Van Sant for "Milk."
Since the DGA Awards started in 1948, there have been only six instances when the feature film winner did not go on to win the corresponding Academy Award.
01/20/2009
By The Tribune-ReviewSecurity cameras to be installed at The Waterfront development in Homestead will be funded by a federal Department of Homeland Security grant, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said Monday.
Zappala said cameras that can recognize faces and license plates will be installed at the entrances and exits to The Waterfront. Zappala said he hopes the cameras will deter crime there.
The popular development had a spate of shootings and robberies in the summer.
In July, an armed robber killed West Mifflin teenager Brian K. Lee as he tried to keep the gunman out of Damon's restaurant in The Waterfront. Two weeks before that, a Homewood man was fatally shot outside the nearby Eat 'n Park restaurant. Fuddruckers and the Rock Bottom Brewery had been held up at gunpoint in previous months.
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