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Wilmerding Council Plans Future for Park
By T.J. Martin
The Tube City Almanac
April 15, 2024
Posted in: Wilmerding News
(T.J. Martin photo for Tube City Almanac)
Wilmerding Borough Council learned last month that the borough had received a $70,000 grant to renovate Wilmerding Park. At the April meeting, council heard the borough engineer’s plan for how they can spend that money.
Borough Engineer Brad Branthoover of Glenn Engineering & Associates Ltd. said the borough received a Community Development Block Grant earmarked for the park renovation through a program administered by the Turtle Creek Valley Council of Governments.
Bordered by Herman Avenue, Westinghouse Avenue and Commerce Street, the park is located just across the street from the former Westinghouse Memorial High School.
The center of the park contains a memorial pillar which was, as it reads, “erected by a grateful community in honor of its sons and daughters who served their country during the world war.” That monument is surrounded by an area of stone blocks and 10 benches and illuminated by 4 lamps on 15-foot lampposts.
The stone blocks were also used for a small walkway and surround a flagpole located a short distance from the monument.
Branthoover said the proposed improvements include electrical upgrades, removing the blocks and replacing them with concrete and also replacing the four lampposts which illuminate the center of the park.
He said he will seek bids for the proposed renovation project and present those to the council.
(T.J. Martin photo for Tube City Almanac)
T.J. Martin is a freelance writer from Trafford whose work has also appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Irwin Standard Observer.
Originally published April 15, 2024.
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