City-wide Responsible Hospitality Planning:

Lawrenceville United, Lawrenceville Corporation, and other community organizations and agencies have been working closely with City of Pittsburgh departments and the Responsible Hospitality Institute (link) to create a plan and recommendations to help steward the growth of responsible managed nighttime entertainment districts in our City, including the Lawrenceville business district.  In 2013, the Lawrenceville community organizations worked with CTAC to collect data on the business district and continued to facilitate our community process relative to new or expanding bars and restaurants, and hospitality businesses.  We will continue this work in 2014 and are excited to see that some of those city-wide recommendations will begin to be implemented:  “Peduto to add new position for “night-time economy“.