The PHSTC organizes a free tree planting event for one residential street each spring and fall to add beauty to the neighborhood, increase our residential property values. Seven projects have been completed to date.

The PHSTC organizes a free tree planting event for one residential street each spring and fall to add beauty to the neighborhood, increase our residential property values. Seven projects have been completed to date.

The PHSTC partners with TreeVitalize to plant street trees making our community and business owners. Shoppers shop more often, longer, and are willing to spend more in a well-landscaped business district.

The PHSTC organizes a tree planting event to celebrate Arbor Day every spring. There have been four annual celebrations to date.

In 2021, the PHST completed a 3 year effort to remove invasive plants, such as Japanese knotweed, and replace them with over 100 native trees and shrubs, along with native funded by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and a Sierra Club Huplits Wildlife Grant in 2018.

Since 2019, Penn Hills has been recognized as a Tree City USA three times by the National Arbor Day Foundation and has also received the Growth Award each year for demonstrating a higher level of tree care and community engagement.