Construction Junction - Building Material Reuse

Construction Junction promotes conservation through the reuse of building materials.
Pittsburgh’s only non-profit building material reuse retailer.

e-Blast

February 9- February 15, 2009

Some fun things

Some weeks are more exciting than others.  This is one of those weeks.  We've got a church pulpit, lots of really nice 2 x 4's that came from an installation at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and a custom made table that once belonged to a US Steel executive.  We also have a number of really good things in the pipeline so be sure to check out the CJ Buzz below.

The photo on the right highlights February sales.  In case you didn't know... merchandise at CJ gets discounted by 10% increments for each month it remains on inventory.  So whenever you're shopping be sure to look for the month on the item's price tag.  Any month prior to the current month equates to the discounts as pictured in the photo on the right.

As we went around to take photos for this week's Blast we came across a number of fun photo ops.  You can click on the thumbnails to enlarge the pictures.  No one seems to know where the four Iron City beer cans, comemorating the 1975 Steelers Super Bowl victory, came from, but they have to be collector items.  The middle picture shows an old hold tag.  After looking at this photo, it becomes instantly obvious why we elimnated the hold item option.  The photo on the right is of our very own CJ Chef Bill.  Looks like he thinks this big light bulb type of fixture will help him generate some new ideas.

                         

The CJ Buzz

Currently in the pipeline... brand new doors in frames, brand new windows, pallets of misc. hardware from a contractor's garage, approx. 50 - 75 retail gondola-type fixtures, misc. items from another contrator's garage and ipe.  Ipe is a really nice wood from Brazil, very hard, durable and beautiful.  The Ipe wood is "in the house" and we're processing it and moving it out to the sales floor as we speak.

Featured Items

Recent Arrivals

Bath vanity
Bath vanity
Bowling alley
Bowling alley
Cabinet doors
Cabinet doors
Carpet
Carpet
China cabinet
China cabinet
Dresser
Dresser
Dresser #2
Dresser #2
Dutch door
Dutch door
Dutch door w/frame
Dutch door w/frame
Farm sink
Farm sink
Fireplace tile
Fireplace tile
Frigidaire Flair
Frigidaire Flair
Granite sink top
Granite sink top
Gurneys
Gurneys
Insulation
Insulation
Kitchen table
Kitchen table
Kohler toilet
Kohler toilet
Mat table
Mat table
Medical chair
Medical chair
Medicine cabinets
Medicine cabinets
Organ
Organ
Piano #1
Piano #1
Piano #2
Piano #2
Piano #3
Piano #3
Pine bar
Pine bar
Spiral staircase
Spiral staircase
Untinted paint #1
Untinted paint #1
Untinted paint #2
Untinted paint #2
Untinted paint #3
Untinted paint #3
Vanity
Vanity
Wooden panel
Wooden panel
Wooden table
Wooden table

News & Events

Don't trash that TV recycling event!
February 21, 2009

On Saturday, February 21st, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, drop off your old television at Construction Junction for recycling and keep it out of the landfill.

Televisions will also be accepted at the City of Pittsburgh Environmental Services Facility, 3001 Railroad Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 (in the Strip District).

This day only in CJ's parking lot... take advantage of reduced TV recycling rates due to a generous grant from Waste Management that will offset some of the recycling cost to the public.  All other e-waste should be brought inside for recycling.

Brought to you by the Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC) with support from Waste Management and the City of Pittsburgh.


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Farm to Table Conference
April 3, 2009

Keep it Real, Keep it Local

Tickets: $25 for the conference and $25 for food tasting, which is scheduled for Friday night.

Conference Highlights:
• Farmers Market
• Expanded Health Expo
• Cooking Demonstrations by Chefs and Dieticians
• Presentations by Experts about eating local
• Local Food Tasting on Friday night

The keynote speaker, is Dr. Devra Davis, Ph.D., MPH.  Dr. Davis is Director of the multidisciplinary University of Pittsburgh, Center for Environmental Oncology, which includes experts in medicine, basic research, engineering and public policy that develop cutting-edge studies to identify the causes of cancer and propose policies to reduce the risks of the disease.


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CJ Q&A

I ran the Oskar Blues booth last year...  I've been telling lots of people about your Steel City Big Pour event and there is lots of interest.  Do you know when you will have it this year?  -- Mark

Mark -- Yes... the Big Pour is always the second Saturday of Septembeer which is the 12th in 2009.  -- The Main Instigator (standing in for Cozmo this week)

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Cozmo’s Message of the Week

Cosmo

February is a customer reward month and as such we're running "red light specials".  Yup, we'll be running two red light specials a week, each one hour long.  During these special hours, everything in the store will be 15% off.  The red light specials will occur between 8am and 11am, Monday through Friday, throughout February.

Cosmo

Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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