Something to smile about Eat’n Park plans to open new Peters location March 2
Th newly constructed Eat’n Park on Route 19 in Peters Township opens March 2.
Dean Woods
Mark Kempic
Eat’n Park is preparing for launch, lunch and round-the-clock dining in Peters Township.
The newly minted restaurant will open at 6 a.m. March 2 at the intersection of Hidden Valley and Washington roads, said Becky McArdle, spokeswoman for Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, parent of the chain. It took about nine months to build, on a site that had once housed a chiropractic clinic but had been vacant for at least three years.
Located at 3380 Washington Road, the facility will supplant an Eat’n Park that has been in operation on Washington Road (Route 19) since 1960, about a quarter-mile south of the new location. Eat’n Park Hospitality closed the 56-year-old eatery at 3 p.m. Sunday.
A site plan has been approved for a Dunkin’ Donuts restaurant to be built there.
Space-wise, the new restaurant will seem like a hangar compared with its predecessor. It will have about 7,400 square feet, nearly twice as much as the current Eat’n Park, and will have 237 seats and 90 parking spaces.
Eat’n Park will anchor Peters Township Marketplace, a $4 million, single-building center that, when completed, will have about 12,000 square feet of business space. The restaurant will be on one end, Northwest Savings Bank on the other, with a third business — not yet signed – in between.
Blaise Larkin, the project developer from Pittsburgh-based Madison Realty Group, there is “plenty of interest” from would-be tenants for that third space. “It shouldn’t be long,” he added.
He estimates a late April-early May launch for the bank.
Handyman Matters must matter. It was an Angie’s List Super Service Award winner again in 2015, the 10th year in a row it has been so honored.
Formally known as Handyman Matters South Pittsburgh, the Monongahela-based home repair/remodeling business operated by Randy and Sandie McMahon, serves the entire Mon Valley, Washington and surrounding communities, McKeesport, White Oak and Uniontown. The business started in 2004.
This time, it was a Super Service winner in 11 categories: Remodeling of Basements; Handyman; Carpentry-Woodworking; Electrical; Ceramic Tile; Drywall; Doors; Cabinet Making; Carpentry-Unfinished; Lighting and Plumbing.
Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks said in a prepared statement: “Only about 5 percent of the handyman companies in the Greater Pittsburgh area have performed so consistently well enough to earn our Super Service Award. It’s a really high standard.”
Greg DeVore of McMurray became a Mr. Handyman franchisee in April 2001. That was the beginning of a home maintenance and repair operation that now numbers 200-plus locations.
Now known as Mr. Handyman of South Pittsburgh, the original franchise is still in business in Peters Township, with an office at 4050 Washington Road, Suite ID. It also has a new owner.
Dean Woods bought the location in January. His résumé includes more than 20 years in the wholesale lumber business and seven years providing financial solutions with Lincoln Financial Group.
Woods said in a prepared statement: “The steady increases of existing home sales and prices reflect a healthy rebound in the housing market. As a result, the demand for home improvement services has increased. Our goal is to help area residents shrink those nagging ‘to-do lists’ on the refrigerator.”
A utility executive plans to bring a lot of energy to the American Red Cross of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Mark Kempic, president of Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania and Columbia Gas of Maryland, has been elected chairman of the chapter’s board. The chapter serves about 4 million residents in 28 counties, including 1.5 million in Washington, Greene and Allegheny counties.
Kempic, a Pittsburgh resident and Uniontown native, was appointed to the board in 2014.
“I look forward to serving the Red Cross in this role,” said Kempic, whose columbia Gas units are subsidiaries of NiSource Inc., a Fortune 500 energy holding company.
He succeeds Jim Garraux as chairman.
Burns & Scalo companies have announced the promotions of six individuals:
• Scalo Inc. in Thornburg has named Michael Andreolli executive vice president of administration and chief financial officer. He will oversee finance, human resources, legal, insurance, and technology policies and decisions companywide.
is residential division manager, overseeing sales and operations of the Scalo residential roofing companies, including Burns & Scalo Roofing and David Hood Roofing.
• John F. Scalo Jr. has moved from project engineer to project manager for the Sheet Metal and the Repair & Maintenance divisions of Burns & Scalo Roofing.
• Mike McKown is now project manager of the Commercial Roofing Division.
• Scalo Solar Solutions has named Philip Long Residential Solar Division manager, in charge of solar residential sales and operations.
• Bill Harris has been named residential field supervisor, with added responsibility in daily residential project management.