Friday, February 18, 2011 By Kim Lawrence Carlynton Votes to Consolidate Elementary Schools The Carlynton school board voted 5-4 Thursday night to close Crafton and Carnegie Elementary Schools and build a new school at the site of the existing Carnegie Elementary School. The decision came after about two hours of listening to ... Read More
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Water to Blame for Wall Collapse [caption id="attachment_8822" align="alignright" width="500" caption="Pittsburgh building inspectors examine the partial collapse of a brick wall at S&S Candy and Cigar Co. at South 21st and East Carson streets on the South Side Monday morning. ... Read More
By Margaret Harding PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Historic District Building's Wall Collapses in South Side Francine Mykich was preparing S&S Candy and Cigar Co. for its busiest day of the week when she thought she heard a truck hit the South Side store. "We came in just like a ... Read More
Pop City Wednesday, February 09, 2011 Market Square Shines with Jos. A. Bank and Crazy Diamonds This spring, mens' clothing store Jos. A. Bank will be moving from its current Downtown location at 527 Smithfield Street to Market Square. Another recent Market Square development includes the upcoming ... Read More
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
By Brian O'Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Around Town: Point of Realism Interferes With Preserving Arena
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The Civic Arena ... Read More
By Historic Hill Institute
February 5, 2011
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Congratulations to the Hill Community Development Corporation, the steward of the New Granada Theater historic preservation project. With the assistance of the Pittsburgh History ... Read More
Panel considering historic designation for Hill landmark Thursday, February 03, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8722" align="alignright" width="160" caption="John Oyler, right, an engineer, talks Wednesday about how important the Civic Arena is as an example of structural engineering because it was done in the days before computer design. Speaking before the ... Read More
Friday, January 21, 2011 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Children's Museum is $2.2 million away from raising the funds it needs to transform the sunken concrete square outside its doors into the Allegheny Public Square Park and make upgrades inside the museum. Officials Thursday announced they had raised $6.3 million of ... Read More
Saturday, January 15, 2011
By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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By Bob Karlovits, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, January 9, 2011
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Cindy Clifton stands ... Read More
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Discount grocer Aldi appears to be headed to the East End as part of the redevelopment of a former car dealership. Michigan-based Warner Pacific Properties is expected to brief the city planning commission today about its plans to convert the Day Automotive dealership into ... Read More
Commission worries demolition will hamper future development at the historic Lawrenceville landmark Monday, January 10, 2011 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8410" align="alignleft" width="330" caption="The pipe shop portion of the closed Iron City Brewery is falling apart at the Lawrenceville landmark, on which the city has bestowed historic status. Bill ... Read More
Thursday, January 06, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Civic Arena has won a bit of a lifeline. A bid to protect the 49-year-old landmark from demolition got a boost Wednesday when the city's historic review commission gave preliminary approval to its nomination as a city historic structure. The 5-1 vote clears the ... Read More
Pittsburgh City Paper For the Week of 01.05.2011 / 01.12.2011 BY ANDREW MOORE [caption id="attachment_8390" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Jonnet Solomon-Nowlin - Steelpan Drum Instructor, owner of The National Opera House in Lincoln-Lemington - Brian Kaldorf"]... Read More
Friday, December 24, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8386" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Julia Tomasic of the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society is trying to save the last great Victorian home in Carrick, at 1425 Brownsville Road, by nominating it for historic status. Bob Donaldson/Post-Gazette"]... Read More
A sporting goods fixture for 93 years
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Retail, apartments slated for former Goodwill headquarters Friday, December 24, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A $28 million project to convert the former Goodwill headquarters on the South Side into apartments and retail space is good to go, thanks in part to a $5 million state redevelopment assistance grant. The grant, awarded by ... Read More
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 Pop City Media The historic Kaufmann Center in the Hill District, home to social services and events in the neighborhood for decades, is that much closer to reopening as a state-of-the-art auditorium for community development, education, arts and cultural happenings, thanks to a $100,000 grant from the ... Read More
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Downtown Pittsburgh is a more diverse and dynamic place than it was just seven years ago -- more residents, more students and workers, more people riding bikes and running. That's the conclusion of Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership President Michael Edwards, based on the group's new ... Read More
By Bill Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, December 4, 2010 [caption id="attachment_8135" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="A Homewood group wants to put a community center in the building that housed Holy Rosary School, which closed this year after serving the neighborhood for 100 years. Keith Hodan | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
By Matthew Santoni PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Allegheny County officials will show off plans for upgrading the South Park Fairgrounds and surrounding areas Wednesday, after months of meetings and public input on what to do with the aging site of the defunct county fair. Three plans center around improving pedestrian ... Read More
By Deborah Deasy, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, November 29, 2010 t's easy to overlook the oldest churches in Pittsburgh. "Then, you come inside and see how beautiful it is," says Sean O'Donnell, secretary at Smithfield United Church of Christ, one the city's four oldest houses or worship. The others -- all soaring stone structures ... Read More
Saturday, November 20, 2010 The Winter Flower Show opens Friday at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Oakland. Nine of the indoor gardens will be bedecked with topiary snowmen, decorated trees, hanging baskets, thousands of lights and more than 2,000 poinsettias. Newer varieties of poinsettias will be on display, including 'Polar ... Read More
Saturday, November 20, 2010 By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7859" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Heavenly Vision Ministries and parsonage, formerly known as the Our Lady Help of Christians in the Larimer section of Pittsburgh, has a 6,000-square-foot rectory and a banquet hall in the lower level. It's on the market for $169,900. ... Read More
Friday, November 19, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Five sculptures that were stored for years in a public works warehouse are being put back on pedestals four years after one artist's persistent queries led to their discovery. Thursday morning, a crew from Mangery & Sons hoisted Peter Calaboyias' stainless steel sculpture ... Read More
Friday, November 19, 2010 By Emily Gibb, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7849" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Manager Mark McNally is winding down business at T & T Hardware, a fixture at 2114 East Carson St. on the South Side since 1936. Owned by the Tumas family since its founding, the store has found it ... Read More
By Craig Smith, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Pittsburgh's South Side was a different neighborhood in 1936 when Stanley J. Tumas scraped together $800 to open his T&T Hardware store on East Carson Street. "It was an old ethnic neighborhood. People took pride in that neighborhood," said his son, Mike Tumas, ... Read More
Saturday, November 13, 2010 By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7705" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The city's Urban Redevelopment Authority has foreclosed and put on the market four buildings -- 1600, 1601, 1602 and 1619 Broadway Ave. == with hopes of enticing developers to invest in this business district and begin its turnaround. ... Read More
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 08:00 AM
Staff Blogs by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Written by Diana Nelson Jones
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Since I reported in May that Schwartz Market had a buyer, shoppers have assumed that the little store ... Read More
By Bob Bauder PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, October 31, 2010 [caption id="attachment_7625" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Thelma J. Smith's home on Andover Terrace in the Upper Hill District bears a swastika in concrete above the entrance. Before fascism, the swastika was viewed as a good-luck symbol. Justin Merriman | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
By Tony LaRussa
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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Thursday, November 04, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fans will have a chance to buy seats and other memorabilia from the Civic Arena over the next two months through on-line sales. The city-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority approved an agreement this morning with the Penguins related to the sale of assets ... Read More
Thursday, November 04, 2010
By Janice Crompton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The historic county courthouses of Western Pennsylvania are clearly more than mere buildings: ... Read More
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Pop City Media
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Abandoned for over 25 years and once the location of Mt. Washington's highest crime rates, the former South Hills High School building at ... Read More
