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Slave Cabin Project Moves to the Privately-Owned Goodwill Plantation
07/23/2010
On the Hill: Preservation Funding Bill Clears Major Hurdle – Prospects Cautiously Positive
07/23/2010
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[Breaking News] On the Hill: House Interior Budget Markup Looks Good for Preservation
07/22/2010
Preservation Magazine OnlineWednesday, July 21, 2010 Pop City Media Neighbors in the Strip, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting economic development in the Strip District, has been awarded designation as an accredited National Main Street Program by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The prestigious designation is based on ... Read More
Thursday, July 15, 2010 By Candy Woodall McKeesport'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. "We're tearing ... Read More
Thursday, July 15, 2010 By Candy Woodall Latrobe foundation and city leaders are deciding how to establish a trail system that would link the region's educational, recreational and industrial institutions. The first step is creating a 2-mile trail from Saint Vincent College in Unity to neighboring Latrobe to provide a connection for the ... Read More
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 & Exhibition Authority board to give the group ... Read More
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For some, it's a pipe dream. For Aubrey Bruce, it's a mission. A former music promoter, Mr. Bruce hopes to save Mellon Arena by recruiting an arena football team, a Women's National Basketball Association team and an American Basketball Association team to ... Read More
Sunday, July 11, 2010
By Bill Toland, Virginia Linn, Patricia Lowry, Marylynne Pitz and Katy Buchanan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Our crown jewel fountain at Point State Park (No. 1 on the map above) is dry until ... Read More
Friday, July 09, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The city'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) ... Read More
Thursday, July 08, 2010 By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_6416" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Surrounded by members of the Urban Redevelopment Committe and the Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation, Gov. Ed Rendell signs the economic development portion of the 2010-11 state budget to help create jobs."]... Read More
Thursday, July 01, 2010 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_6363" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Lake Fong/Post-Gazette From left, Chuck Matus, JRHSS Design Community; Ray Rush, Main Street Program manager; Dennis Chambers, chairman of Saxonburg Historical and Restoration Commission; and Gary Mullen, member of Saxonburg Historical and Restoration Commission outside the Hotel ... Read More
Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Candy Woodall The mayor calls it a renaissance. The school superintendent calls it a revitalization. Both agree that more than $80 million worth of construction and upgrades will make Mc-Keesport a more attractive city. The school district is expected to break ground this summer on its ... Read More
Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Andrea Iglar In the early 1900s, tax revenues from booming oil and coal industries funded construction of the buildings that make up McDonald's business district to this day. In more recent years, however, the advent of malls and other factors drew many customers away from town, ... Read More
Thursday, June 24, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Say goodbye to Mellon Arena. The iconic silver-domed venue will lose its name when the Penguins officially move into the Consol Energy Center on Aug. 1. That's when a naming rights agreement between BNY Mellon and the Penguins will expire. At that point, ... Read More
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, ... Read More
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. [caption ... Read More
Thursday, June 17, 2010 By Katie Falloon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has expressed concerns about the speed of the planned demolition of the Mellon Arena, prompting a response today from the Sports & Exhibition Authority. In the commission's letter sent Wednesday, director Jean Cutler requested more information. "We ... Read More
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. "We've seen an increasing number of green roofs in Pittsburgh in the past three years, some of which are Downtown," said Aurora Sharrard, director ... Read More
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, ... Read More
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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State Senator Jim Ferlo and the board of Pittsburgh Green Innovators hosted tours of ... Read More
Friday, June 11, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The 80-year-old former Connelley Technical Institute in the Hill District is slated to become a green ... Read More
By Adam Brandolph PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, June 10, 2010 Consultants for the city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority recommended in a draft report sent to the state Bureau of Historic Preservation that Mellon Arena be demolished and the 28-acre Uptown site be developed, SEA officials confirmed Wednesday. The report, according to Chris Cieslak, a ... Read More
Group waiting for 'Igloo' review Tuesday, June 08, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation won't rush to judgment on the future of Mellon Arena. PHLF President Arthur P. Ziegler Jr. said Monday that the organization would await the outcome of a required review to determine possible ... Read More
Thursday, June 03, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Historic Review Commission Wednesday conditionally approved the plans of an investment group to renovate the former Fifth Avenue High School, Uptown, into 65 rental lofts. Casey Steiner and Jonathan Hill, on behalf of the new owner, an investment partnership called LMS 5th ... Read More
Friday, June 04, 2010
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Local preservationists are pressing for more time in their battle to save Mellon Arena from demolition.
At a news conference today, they called on the city-Allegheny County Sports & ... Read More
Thursday, June 03, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Historic Review Commission Wednesday conditionally approved the plans of an investment group to renovate the former Fifth Avenue High School, Uptown, into ... Read More
By Rick Stouffer, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, June 3, 2010 Owners of the historic former Fifth Avenue High School hope to start renovations and construction at the Uptown building by early fall to convert it to 65 loft apartments. The development known as the 5th Avenue School Lofts will cost more than $10 ... Read More
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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A black and yellow butterfly landed for a moment ... Read More
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Mellon Arena may go out with its ... Read More
By Bill Zlatos PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, May 16, 2010 [caption id="attachment_5936" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Bounded by Smithfield and Oliver streets, Sixth Avenue and William Penn Place, Mellon Square in downtown Pittsburgh was named one of America's 10 Great Public Places by the American Planning Association in 2008. Philip G. Pavely | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
Sunday, April 25, 2010 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Cities including Pittsburgh followed Robert Moses' top-down, neighborhood-destroying "urban renewal" lead during the 1960s and '70s. Prominent among opponents of Moses' imperious style and massive, hardship-imposing projects was Greenwich Village's Jane Jacobs, whose success inspired others. She wrote such books as "The Death and Life of Great ... Read More
Architect calls report 'incomplete' Wednesday, April 28, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Destroying Mellon Arena is a better economic bet than saving it. That's the conclusion of an economic analysis which found that the Penguins' plan to demolish the arena and redevelop the land had nearly double the benefit of a ... Read More
Monday, April 12, 2010
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Mayor Luke ... Read More
Some say new shops could be the beginning of a return to the corridor's glory days
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Lower Fifth Avenue is becoming the Eliza ... Read More
By Andrew Conte PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, January 31, 2010... Read More
PHLF News November 5, 2009 Of the seven apartments at Market at Fifth, four are leased, a studio with a study is currently available, and two of two-story penthouse apartments with expansive roof decks overlooking our green and growing roof with wonderful views of the architecture of downtown Pittsburgh are still available. ... Read More
PHLF News
November 3, 2009
The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) recently presented its 2009 J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation to ten outstanding historic rehabilitation ... Read More
