After two days in Northern Ireland, I can say that the city of Belfast differs greatly from my expectations. Most of our time here was spent in service at a local youth center, where we learned from elementary age children about their culture and lifestyle. By the end of our time with them, I realized…
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PIT–>DUBLIN
As we close the Pittsburgh portion of this Haller Fellowship, I reflect on the most pivotal moments during the past two weeks. Being very new to the world of business, I found myself learning (and humbled) every single day. My most important takeaway was most likely the fact that I need to be more curious….
Main Streets Initiatives and Community Driven Corporations
After talking today with the Riverhounds Director of Promotions and Entertainment and hearing from Pitt Intern Liz, I understood more of what it means to be a true community partner. Though the Riverhounds do not draw as voluminous crowds as the Steelers/Pirates, they direct a huge amount of focus and funds towards local business partnerships….
Craig St Hidden Gem: The Irish Design Center
Visiting the Irish Design Center on Craig Street this afternoon, we met owner Tom Petrone who took us through the history and operations of the retail gift shop. Tom is the most Irish-passionate Italian I have ever met; the accounts he gave of his fourteen trips to Ireland showed us the amount of love he…
What Terri Baltimore Taught Us About Neighborhood Revival
This morning we had the eye opening experience of touring the Hill District with Terri Baltimore, giving us an irreplaceable window into the deep history of this historic Pittsburgh neighborhood. Hearing the story of the area firsthand showed us both the painful scars of top down urban renewal in the mid twentieth century and the…
Taking The Hill District to New Heights
During our tour of the Hill District today, tour guide Terri Baltimore pointed out multiple examples of businesses brought to the area that either succeeded and became a community staple or failed within the first few years. Examples of success include Tom’s Barber Shop, Granada Theater, Senior Center, and the August Wilson House. To point…
Connellsville and Carrigart
While I have been looking forward to the Ireland/Carrigart consulting segment of the fellowship for quite some time, I have been slightly intimidated by the tall order that awaits us there. Today’s site visit to Connellsville PA (in Fayette County, about an hour south of Oakland) gave me a great idea of what to expect…
Lessons From a Long Afternoon in Bloomfield
If the first few days of this program have been a whirlwind of orientations and classroom theory, today felt like being truly thrown into the deep end. As part of our Managing in Complex Environments coursework at Pitt, my consulting team and I were tasked with the Pittsburgh Neighborhood Scramble. The goal of this exercise…
Neighborhood Scramble in Shadyside
This afternoon, the professors tasked us with the interesting challenge of analyzing a Pittsburgh neighborhood through the following four lenses: businesses, civic assets, community organizations, and public resources. My group (Business Development) chose Shadyside, an affluent neighborhood about ten minutes east of Oakland. The bus dropped us off at Walnut St, Shadyside’s main street. We…
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