Three Rivers Rowing Association

==Background==
The association promotes various forms of rowing.
High school and college athletes are users of the facilities at Three Rivers Rowing. Starting with 65 rowers in 1986, when it occupied the first building completed in Washington's Landing, the association's clientele now numbers 3,000. Besides offices, its headquarters houses a weight room, a room for practice rowing, and on a lower level, dry dock space for boats such as canoes and kayaks.
Three Rivers trains rowers of all ages and skill levels, hosts events, and rents boats as well as storage of user-owned boats, both at Washington's Landing and in a newer boathouse in Millvale. 
As a nonprofit that employs from five to 20, depending on the season. 
The association's economic impact is not immediately apparent. 
Executive director Richard Butler.
==Details==
Nine hundred athletes from 12 high schools and 500 college athletes use its facilities, and the schools buy boats for their rowing teams, paying up to $25,000 or $30,000 for each. The Millvale boathouse, completed in 2003, cost $2.2 million, and Mr. Butler is on the lookout for a third location.
The primary boating event, the Head of the Ohio rowing race in October, has 5,000 participants, four out of five of whom come from out of state. "The new restaurants going in on the North Shore will have business from that, because our finish line will be right there," Mr. Butler said.
==Links==
* Washington's Landing
* Rivers
* Boating
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