Piazza Imo opens its gates in historic Hill neighborhood


The iron gates are finally open at Piazza Imo on the Hill, after years of planning.

An Italian band celebrated with welcoming tunes as hundreds of people crowded the streets Sunday afternoon eager to take a look.

It took two and a half years to build the 11,000-square-foot attraction, which is an extension to St. Ambrose Church.

"Almost every major town in Italy has a piazza and a lot of times they are associated with a church or close to a church," Bill Frisella, a member of the Piazza Committee,…

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