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		<title>Native Sees New Life For &#8216;Rox&#8217; Native Sees Bright Future</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/29/native-sees-new-life-for-rox-native-sees-bright-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Brian David, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


One of the ideas driving the renovation of the Roxian Theater is the impact it could have on the neighborhood, creating a draw for a young, hip crowd interested in clubs and restaurants and coffee shops.
It&#8217;s a vision espoused by Andrew Hieber, who is in line to operate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roxian (Theater) Ready for Start of Renovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Brian David, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

When Andrew Hieber saw a &#8220;for sale&#8221; sign on the Roxian Theater in McKees Rocks, he had an instant vision.
A musician, he knew the local concert scene. A longtime restaurant worker, he knew entertainment. As the owner of a martial arts and fitness gym, he knew business. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hope for Jeannette Glass Co. Plant Site</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/29/new-hope-for-jeannette-glass-co-plant-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Candy Woodall

Robert Carter drives past it every day. He sees the blemish on the city landscape and questions the fate of the old Jeannette Glass plant.
A city firefighter for the past 36 years and the mayor for the past six months, Mr. Carter is quite familiar with Jeannette Glass Co.
&#8220;I remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regent Square Brick Streets to Remain Brick</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/22/regent-square-brick-streets-to-remain-brick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 22, 2010
By Deborah M. Todd, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With parts of the Regent Square neighborhood&#8217;s brick-paved Macon and Trevanion avenues in shambles following a recent water main break, residents&#8217; efforts to make sure the street is repaired in its original condition have paid off.
Swissvale council President David Petrarca said the Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Here: Deutschtown</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, July 17, 2010
By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette




Even by North Side standards, 621 Tripoli St. was a challenge.
The original 1890s brick townhouse was intact, but the later wood-frame addition on the back was crumbling and falling away, and raccoons had made themselves at home. Worst of all to an old-house lover, someone had cut into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old School Steps to Front of the Class</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/21/old-school-steps-to-front-of-the-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Heyl
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Consider it a textbook example of how to transform a dilapidated eyesore into a potential community jewel.
For nearly a quarter-century, the former South Hills High School in Mt. Washington slowly deteriorated while various redevelopment proposals were about as successful as the initial Hindenburg launch.
As recently as 18 months ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artists on Board for Mural Project Behind Tarentum Station Restaurant</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/20/artists-on-board-for-mural-project-behind-tarentum-station-restaurant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Yerace
VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Last updated: 7:41 am

The mural project for the wall behind the Tarentum Station restaurant is picking up steam, according to borough officials.
Borough Manager Bill Rossey said he has been contacted by five local artists who want to volunteer their services for the project.
Councilman Ray Kerr, who is coordinating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firms Pitch Building Plans for Garden Theater Area</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/20/firms-pitch-building-plans-for-garden-theater-area/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Vidonic
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The owner of a central North Side business only wanted to hear one issue addressed Monday about the redevelopment of the block surrounding the vacant Garden Theater.
&#8220;Parking, parking, parking,&#8221; said Irene Karavolos, co-owner of Steve&#8217;s New York Hot Dogs on Federal Street. &#8220;You can&#8217;t bring in more businesses when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad Plan Would Link Pittsburgh, Ohio</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/16/railroad-plan-would-link-pittsburgh-ohio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By The Associated Press
Friday, July 16, 2010

COLUMBUS &#8212; Pittsburgh and Toledo are among the next cities that Ohio wants to connect as part of its developing passenger rail project, state transportation officials said Thursday.
The state has signed a $7.8 million contract with an engineering firm to study new routes that would branch off from Ohio&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Side Theater is &#8220;Spruced Up&#8221; — for Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/16/north-side-theater-is-spruced-up-%e2%80%94-for-hollywood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Vidonic
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, July 16, 2010

More than one person passing the former Garden Theater in the North Side did a double-take Thursday, likely wondering whether a decade of working to rid the block of porn establishments suddenly reversed.
Workers replaced the neon on the old X-rated theater&#8217;s dilapidated sign. Next door, a painter finished the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McKeesport Will Demolish 15 Homes</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/15/mckeesport-will-demolish-15-homes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 15, 2010
By Candy Woodall

McKeesport&#8217;s 7th Ward is getting a face-lift.
Despite a poor economy, McKeesport continues to attract stimulus dollars to improve its neighborhoods.
Using a $100,00 from Allegheny County, Mayor James Brewster said the city will raze another 15 blighted homes along Bailey Avenue, beginning on July 27.
&#8220;We&#8217;re tearing down a house every four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Asks 1-Year Delay in Mellon Arena Demolition</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/15/group-asks-1-year-delay-in-mellon-arena-demolition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 15, 2010
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A group seeking to save Mellon Arena today urged its owner to delay a proposed demolition for one year.
Rob Pfaffmann, a Downtown architect who leads Reuse the Igloo, asked the city-Allegheny County Sports &#38; Exhibition Authority board to give the group a year to develop an economically viable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Turtle Creek High School&#8217;s Architecture, Importance Honored</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/15/former-turtle-creek-high-schools-architecture-importance-honored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Fontaine
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, July 15, 2010

The former Turtle Creek High School building has gone by several names and narrowly avoided the wrecking ball to remain a community centerpiece since opening during World War I.
On Saturday, officials will unveil two historical markers that commemorate the Monroeville Avenue building&#8217;s architectural significance and role in the community.
Although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steel Valley Agency Eyes Old Gym For After-School Use</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/15/steel-valley-agency-eyes-old-gym-for-after-school-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Chris Ramirez
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Decades ago, the old gymnasium attached to the Steel Valley Council of Governments building was the place to go for pick-up basketball games and summer youth camps.
Not so much now.
Amid the walls, streaked with unsightly graffiti and time-yellowed pin-ups, the Rev. Jim Cannistraci sees potential.
He and a small-but-growing band [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh Offers Plenty of Refreshing Water Havens During the Summer Months:  A Walking Tour of the City&#8217;s Fountains and Water Feaures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, July 11, 2010
By Bill Toland, Virginia Linn, Patricia Lowry, Marylynne Pitz and Katy Buchanan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Our crown jewel fountain at Point State Park (No. 1 on the map above) is dry until 2012 while it undergoes repairs, and a few others also need work, but there are plenty of other burbling basins to enjoy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Safety Net to House Homeless on S. Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, July 13, 2010
By Meredith Skrzypczak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Moving from riverbanks and alleyways into apartments with bedrooms and bathrooms will become a reality for 16 homeless individuals currently living on the streets of Allegheny County.
The move will be made possible by a federal grant awarded to a local agency last week for construction of housing on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fallingwater Cottage Designs on Display at Carnegie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kurt Shaw, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Located in Mill Run, just 90 minutes by car southeast of Pittsburgh, Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Fallingwater is an icon of 20th-century architecture that draws approximately 150,000 admirers from around the world, all year long.
Built between 1936 and 1939 for the Kaufmann family &#8212; owners of the Pittsburgh department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Old Stone Tavern in Pittsburgh&#8217;s West End Awaits New Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tony LaRussa
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, July 12, 2010

It&#8217;s hard to see the building at the crossroads of Greentree Road and Woodville Avenue in the West End as anything but just another of the city&#8217;s many aged, vacant properties waiting for its date with a wrecking ball.
But some people are looking beyond the broken windows, peeling siding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Museum Has Plans to Beautify Unsightly Underpasses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Zlatos
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, July 12, 2010

Visitors from Downtown to the North Side must now pass through a dark maze of cold, concrete underpasses. But the Children&#8217;s Museum of Pittsburgh will soon inject it with a bit of brightness.
The museum is working with Norfolk &#38; Southern Railroad and other groups to convert the railroad&#8217;s underpass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnegie Catholic Church May Get $7.1M Renewal</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/09/carnegie-catholic-church-may-get-7-1m-renewal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeffrey Widmer
TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE
Thursday, July 8, 2010

The old St. Luke&#8217;s Church in Carnegie might gain new life.
The Carnegie planning commission last month approved plans to renovate the red brick church at Third Street and Third Avenue. It closed after being ravaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004.
It would reopen as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old-Fashioned Amusement Parks Once Beckoned, Have Nearly Vanished</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bobby Cherry and Kristina Serafini
SEWICKLEY HERALD
Thursday, July 8, 2010

For more than 100 years, American amusement parks have entertained and thrilled those looking for summertime excitement. But as cultures shifted and competition increased, the thrills, fun and family gatherings at many parks stopped, leaving only memories behind.
From the late 19th century through the mid 1950s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YMCA Posts Big Plans for the Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/09/ymca-posts-big-plans-for-the-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adam Brandolph
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, July 9, 2010

A day after community officials announced they had struck a deal to bring a grocery store to the Hill District, residents on Thursday were pleased to hear that the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh plans to break ground on a nearby facility this fall.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a very good thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh Taking Steps to Fix Crumbling Stairways</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Harding
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Tiffany Eberhardt&#8217;s trip to visit her grandmother recently took on a new meaning.
Eberhardt, 33, of Jefferson Hills broke her wrist and tore knee ligaments after falling through city-owned suspended concrete stairs in Pittsburgh&#8217;s Chartiers City neighborhood in April.
&#8220;I love the fact that they&#8217;re here,&#8221; Eberhardt said about the steps. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fight On to Keep Brick Street in Regent Square</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/09/fight-on-to-keep-brick-street-in-regent-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alyssa Karas
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

The clusters of bright orange cones on Macon Avenue in Regent Square alert motorists and pedestrians of giant holes in the yellow-brick road.
But the cones are warning signs of a battle brewing between Swissvale residents and a water company.
When Wilkinsburg-Penn Joint Water Authority replaces the water line in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URA Moves to Subsidize Several Developments in Pittsburgh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 09, 2010
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The city&#8217;s Urban Redevelopment Authority board Thursday made early moves to subsidize developments in the Strip District, Squirrel Hill and the South Side and sold properties to make way for an expanded YMCA in the Hill District.
The subsidies it preliminarily approved were tax increment financing (TIF) plans to support building public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hill Innovation Center Gets State Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/08/hill-innovation-center-gets-state-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 08, 2010
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Gov. Ed Rendell on Wednesday announced up to $8 million in state funding for a green innovation center in the Lower Hill District that may begin operations by fall.
Pittsburgh Green Innovators &#8212; to be housed in the former Connelley vocational-technical school &#8212; will be a home for new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Park Middle School Outdoor Classroom to Serve Double Duty</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/08/south-park-middle-school-outdoor-classroom-to-serve-double-duty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 08, 2010
By Amanda Gillooly

Howard Anderson said his smelly, sometimes boisterous lesson plans don&#8217;t do anything for his popularity in the teachers lounge at South Park Middle School.
&#8220;We&#8217;re dissecting fish and the room stinks or we&#8217;re making bottle rockets,&#8221; the fifth-grade science teacher said last week as he and a small crew of laborers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County Bridges All Gaps But One in Pittsburgh-to-D.C. Trail: Onorato Wants it Completed by 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 08, 2010
By Jon Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


Construction cranes on Wednesday eliminated two of the biggest obstacles to completing a 335-mile biking and hiking trail from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., a project that has been in the works for 35 years.
Crews hoisted prefabricated bridges over active freight rail lines in Whitaker and Duquesne along the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants Available to Upgrade McDonald Historic Buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/07/08/grants-available-to-upgrade-mcdonald-historic-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, July 08, 2010
By Andrea Iglar

Bev Schons, co-owner of the Pitt Hotel &#38; Restaurant in McDonald, says it&#8217;s about time to install new windows in the century-old building, and she hopes the borough&#8217;s new facade improvement program will help.
Mrs. Schons plans to seek grant money for the South McDonald Street landmark, which is in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YWCA&#8217;s New Green Roof Contributes to Revitalization of the Wood Street Corridor</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/06/23/ywcas-new-green-roof-contributes-to-revitalization-of-the-wood-street-corridor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The 42-year-old YWCA building at 305 Wood Street received a $175,000  grant from the Richard King  Mellon Foundation and Eden Hall Foundation to build a new green roof.
The new  retro-fitted roof will protect the building envelope from moisture  penetration, with a final layer of plantscaping, and is scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many Suggest Ways to Save Mellon Arena</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, June 23, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


When I asked for ideas for reusing Mellon Arena on June 13, I hoped to get at least a handful of responses. But almost 60 of you e-mailed or called with suggestions or simply encouragement to find a way to save the arena.
Convert it to a market house, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundations Aid Pittsburgh YWCA&#8217;s Green Roof</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/06/17/foundations-aid-pittsburgh-ywcas-green-roof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Zlatos
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, June 17, 2010

The YWCA is getting a green roof, part of a campaign by charitable foundations to make Downtown more environmentally friendly.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen an increasing number of green roofs in Pittsburgh in the past three years, some of which are Downtown,&#8221; said Aurora Sharrard, director of innovation for the Pittsburgh Green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Offers 6 Options for Mellon Arena</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/06/17/study-offers-6-options-for-mellon-arena/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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By Jeremy Boren
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Demolishing Mellon Arena would make way for a mix of new homes and high-end office space covering nine city blocks in the lower Hill District, according to a study released Wednesday.
The 107-page report provides the first detailed look at six scenarios, which include restoring the arena to its original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phipps&#8217; Center for Sustainable Landscapes Chosen to Test New Green Design Rating System</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/06/16/phipps-center-for-sustainable-landscapes-chosen-to-test-new-green-design-rating-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pop City Media
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Garden&#8217;s Center for Sustainable Landscapes, which is in its final phase of design, has been selected to join 175 other pilot programs to test a revolutionary new rating system for green landscape design called The Sustainable Sites Initiative, or SITES.

SITES is similar to the LEED building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>90,000 square foot LEED Building Will Be a Huge Boost to Neville Island&#8217;s Revitalization</title>
		<link>http://www.phlf.org/2010/06/16/90000-square-foot-leed-building-will-be-a-huge-boost-to-neville-islands-revitalization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Ground was broken last Friday at the site of a new $5 million  speculative 90,000 square foot flex/ distribution building at 4800 Grand  Avenue on Neville Island.
&#8220;Neville Island has  been waiting to be reborn. I believe strongly in the benefits this area  can offer all businesses [...]]]></description>
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