Task Force

The BGC’s Public Safety Task Force meets monthly with police officials, building inspectors, and other authorities to analyze and plan responses to problems related to drug trafficking, prostitution, violence, and other threats to the community. The BGC also works with the City on issues relating to property owners who consistently violate codes and ordinances. Residents and business owners are invited to attend the first 15 minutes of each meeting to raise specific concerns, or present concrete information about criminal activity to the Task Force. Meetings are at the Bloomfield-Garfield Community Activity Center, 113 North Pacific Avenue, in Garfield, and begin at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Aggie Brose, chair of the Task Force, at 412-441-6950 x 15.

5108 and 5110 Penn Avenue (before)	5108 and 5110 Penn Avenue (after)
The properties at 5108 and 5110 Penn Avenue were suspected "speakeasies," or illegal liquor-serving establishments, until BGC staff contacted the owner, who promptly filed eviction notices against the tenants.	After rehab, the commercial spaces were transformed into an art gallery and a braiding salon.

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