Fifty-two acres along a mile and a half of Allegheny River shoreline, the birthplace of the H.J. Heinz Company, cleaned up and beginning its return to the river.
Horseradish fields, then a scrapyard, now fifty-two reclaimed acres. The 1896 survey still reads “H.J. Heinz Co. Horse Radish Factory.” Today the drone shows the same shore, clean and waiting.
Henry J. Heinz farmed this shore and bottled his first product here in the late 1800s. The 1896 map still reads “H.J. Heinz Co. Horse Radish Factory.”
Rail came first: for some fifteen years the shore worked as a railroad repair plant for locomotives and boxcars. The scrapyard that followed in the early 1950s began, fittingly, by dismantling steam locomotives, and it kept a mile and a half of riverfront closed to the people beside it until 2015.
Remediation finished in 2022; ground broke that October. A $25M federal RAISE grant and state support have been announced toward road access, river connections, and the Heritage Trail, with more still to fund.
A mixed-use riverfront village: homes for a range of incomes, main-street retail, parks, and the river itself, open to Sharpsburg at last. See the vision ↓
The plan is deliberately flexible: a framework shaped in collaboration with the Borough of Sharpsburg, the community, and project partners, not a fixed stat sheet.
The plan has been shaped in public, through community meetings hosted with the Borough of Sharpsburg and the Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization. The presentations are archived here:
Fly it by drone: from downtown, up the Allegheny, to a mile and a half of reclaimed shoreline.
Fly the corridor, from the site up the Allegheny to Oakland’s campuses and medical centers.
Founded in Pittsburgh in 1992 by Steven Mosites, Jr., The Mosites Company is the team behind East Liberty’s Eastside revitalization: a 118k ft² first phase anchored by Whole Foods, a 145k ft² Target, and 360 new apartments with 43k ft² of retail, alongside a redesigned East Liberty Transit Station. Allegheny Shores is the same playbook, on the river, developed in collaboration with the Borough of Sharpsburg, whose community and leadership have shaped the plan from the start.
The Mosites Company is seeking development partners, investors, and retail tenants to shape the riverfront village.