Facade program brightens Monongahela

By ERIC SEIVERLING

eseiverling@yourmvi.com

Thanks to Monongahela’s Main Street Program, historic buildings in the city’s business district are getting a facelift while still preserving the past.

The Facade Program is now in its fifth year, and it has enabled a number of the city’s historic buildings constructed before 1965 to receive updated, restored and rehabbed store fronts and entrances by providing funds to building owners who apply for the program.

The program just completed work on the facade of Rabe’s Trading Post, and other completed building fronts include Sen. Camera Bartolotta’s office, Angel’s Secret Flowers, Santa’s Secret Shoppe and Sweets by Mrs. C, as well as apartment buildings.

According to Main Street Program Executive Director Terry Necciai, more buildings may soon be addressed.

“The whole purpose of this program was to capitalize on downtown and we succeeded,” Necciai said. “We’ve done six buildings so far, and we have enough money to do eight more projects.”

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