Mon Valley Independent office open at Tube City Center

By STACY WOLFORD
Managing Editor
It has been several months in the making, but the Mon Valley Independent is proud to announce we will be officially opening our second office at the new Tube City Center for Business and Innovation in McKeesport today.
We will have a representative from our staff at the former Daily News building, located at the corner of Walnut Street and Lysle Boulevard, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. In addition, we will have members of our editorial and advertising departments working from the new office. The public is welcome to stop in during our business hours. Our McKeesport office can be reached at 412-896-8460.
Our MVI staff will also continue working from our main office at 996 Donner Ave., Monessen. We are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Our Monessen office can be reached at 724-314-0030.
The Mon Valley Independent is just one of the entities that are working together to bring life back to the former Daily News Building. McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko and state Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, rededicated the “iconic,” “historic” 1930s art-deco-style building Feb. 11 as the Tube City Center for Business and Innovation. They were joined by community and elected leaders from across the state, Allegheny County and the Mon and Turtle Creek valleys.
The Tube City Center now houses an office for the MVI, a community newsroom for Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation, Tube City Community Media, Flashover Fire Apparatus & Equipment Co. and the anchor tenant — the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Mon Valley Support Center.
Through a $1 purchase agreement made between Brewster, Cherepko and Trib Total Media CEO Jennifer Bertetto, the McKeesport Redevelopment Authority purchased The Daily News building from Trib Total Media in December 2017, almost exactly two years after the parent company of the Tribune-Review stopped production of the 131-year-old McKeesport Daily News on Dec. 31, 2015.
MVI board member Naz Victoria reminded the hundreds of guests at the dedication ceremony that the Monessen-based newspaper’s motto is “What happens here, matters here.”
He said he and his fellow board members — retired Magisterial District Judge Joseph Dalfonso and Moe Galis — along with managing editor Stacy Wolford, advertising/ circulation Manager Loreli Byron and the whole Mon Valley Independent staff are “proud” to have an office in the Tube City Center.
Victoria said the newspaper’s staff has a goal of carrying on the legacy of The Daily News by “providing quality community-based journalism” to the McKeesport area and across the entire Mon Valley.
As excited as we are to continue building our relationship in the McKeesport area communities, we want to remind and ensure our subscribers, readers and advertisers here in the Mid-Mon Valley that we are still committed to providing all of you with the best local news product possible.
Our first edition was published May 2, 2016. Since then, we’ve been producing a top-notch product, providing our readers with comprehensive coverage of all local news and sports — coverage our readers can’t get elsewhere. Opening a start-up newspaper is unheard of these days, but we did it. Of course, it hasn’t been easy, but we are growing bigger and better every day
Our McKeesport office can be reached at 412-896-8460.
Our Monessen office can be reach at 724-314-0030.