Please enjoy our recent press coverage.

Retiring Aspinwall marina owner grew up with river

Post Gazette – 7/28/2011
“David Kushon was a kid when his father bought the marina in Aspinwall. It was 1959 and the river was slick with oil and sludge. Yet boaters had a haven there, and the lifestyle grew on the boy as he learned the ropes.” [Read More]

Kid Mows For Marina

Post Gazette 7/25/2011
There’s a big push in Aspinwall and surrounding communities to cobble together $256,000 before a Sept. 1 deadline to buy the Aspinwall Marina.

One of the people who was inspired to help is 13-year-old Che Esch (pictured here), who has been mowing lawns for $15 — $20 for the bigger lawns in Fox Chapel and O’Hara — and giving all his earnings to the effort. [Read More]

Aspinwall residents near end of fundraising effort for park
Post Gazette – 7/25/2011

“Since May, when the Colcom Foundation pledged $250,000 as a match to spark fundraising, the Aspinwall Riverfront Park Project has raised all but $256,000 of the $2.3 million it needs to purchase the Aspinwall Marina.

But the clock is ticking. If organizers do not close the gap before the first of September, the plan dies. That’s the deadline owner David Kushon has set.” [Read More]

Aspinwall Marina group $256,000 short of purchase goal

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – July 22, 2011

Residents who are trying to raise $2.3 million to buy the Aspinwall Marina and turn it into a public park are just $256,000 shy of their goal.  [Read More]

Aspinwall Marina fund drive gets head start

Aspinwall Herald – May 16, 2011

An anonymous donor is giving $400,000 toward the purchase of the Aspinwall Marina to develop it into a public park along the Allegheny River. [More]

Mom Prom to benefit Aspinwall Marina project – April 10, 200

Think of it:  women schwooshing by in floor-length, mint-green taffeta gowns, batting their eyes lashes thick with blue mascara, all underneath a teased mane of unnaturally large hair. [Read More]