James Bendel knows all about coffee shops. The Latrobe native spent plenty of time in them during his years in the oil and gas industry. “I would stop in coffee shops to send my sales reports,” says Bendel, who ventured into the coffee business himself back in 2018 with the launch of Crazy ...
As if owning and running a destination operation weren’t intensive enough, Russ and Melanie Bedner expanded their workload.“I make wine as a hobby and got my winery license,” Russ said. “We sell my wines in the store: five different dry reds, two or three dry whites and some ...
Needle and Bean markets itself as “coffee and records,” but really, it’s a destination: a sleek space that smells like java, sounds like a movie soundtrack and feels like a place in which one could start an ink drawing, finish a novella or write a song.“I wanted something for the ...
In 2023, the South West Regional Chamber of Commerce experienced exponential growth, welcoming the South Hills Chamber of Commerce as a growing part of the chamber’s footprint. With this expansion, the chamber has fostered the development of even more business and community partners from ...
After enduring nearly two years’ worth of construction, residents of Mt. Lebanon were dancing – literally – in the street, celebrating the end iof the first phase of a multimillion-dollar project to renovate and revive the Washington Road business district.Mt. Lebanon hosted Uptown ...
A retired Air Force pilot, Brian Schill is accustomed to being up in the air. And that’s where he has been, figuratively, about his future since retiring as executive director of the Peters Township Chamber of Commerce in June.“I spent zillions of hours there,” he said with his trademark ...
