“The Roxian is a game changer for the Sto-Rox community. “We wouldn’t be renovating and restoring two live music venues if we didn’t believe Pittsburgh needed two venues like the Thunderbird and the Roxian, venues that are actually designed for live music to provide the best experience for both the performers and the customers.” – John Pergal The Roxian will include general admission, mezzanine seating and VIP areas, each with its own bar space offering a wide variety of craft beers.īoth Pergal and Taris Vrcek, executive director of MRCDC, predict the music venue will spark further development, including retail, and restaurants, and attract additional jobs and visitors to the community. Regionally, the Roxian – estimated to have a capacity of more than 1,400 attendees – will fill a void for this size of venue by attracting musical acts that normally bypass the Pittsburgh market.
“We wouldn’t be renovating and restoring two live music venues if we didn’t believe Pittsburgh needed two venues like the Thunderbird and the Roxian, venues that are actually designed for live music to provide the best experience for both the performers and the customers,” said Pergal. Pergal and partners recognize that restoring the 1929 vaudeville-era Roxian Theatre will lead the transformation of the surrounding Chartiers Avenue business corridor, similar to the direct impact the Thunderbird Café and New Amsterdam had on the revitalization of Lawrenceville. A 10-year Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) was provided by the McKees Rocks Borough and the Sto-Rox School District. The project is being funded with approximately $1.4 million in recoverable loans from the MRCDC which obtained the funds from grants provided by the Hillman Foundation, The Heinz Foundation and the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), $5 million in loans from the Reinvestment Fund, Bridgeway Capital and LISC, $600,000 from the sale of federal historic tax credits and private equity of $2 million. Pergal and his partners closed on the $9 million Roxian project Dec.
Pergal is owner of New Amsterdam and the Lawrenceville concert venue Thunderbird Café & Music Hall, which simultaneously underwent extensive upgrades and expansion before relaunching in summer 2019. Lawrenceville entrepreneur John Pergal and partners purchased the historic Roxian Theatre from the McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation (MRCDC) in late 2017.
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McKees Rocks, PA – The long-awaited promise of a mid-size live music venue in McKees Rocks has finally acheived stage time now that its restoration is complete and the venue was launched to the public with a series of free open house shows May 9 and 10, 2019. A photo of the Roxian prior to the construction phase which began in October 2017.
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