The Mon Valley Initiative (MVI) has donated a preservation easement to the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation to ensure the preservation and protection of the historic John C. Plumer House in West Newton, Pennsylvania, in ... Read More
Saturday, November 20, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Cambria County's Benjamin Franklin Jones cottage may have found ... 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 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
Sunday, November 14, 2010 By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7755" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The former Abel Colley Tavern, five miles west of Uniontown in Fayette County, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995. It was recently restored. Marylynne Pitz"]... 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
Saturday, November 06, 2010
By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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By next summer, Madonna ... Read More
Friday, November 05, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Paul Orange hasn't given up hope that he will be able to buy and relocate the historic William Smith House in Mercersburg, despite a setback Thursday. The house is on land owned by the MMP&W Volunteer Fire Co., which acquired the property in 2009 ... Read More
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
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
By Adam Brandolph PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, November 2, 2010 An Allegheny County judge put a temporary halt on the city's plan to demolish a condemned property in Larimer after a Sharpsburg man said he wants to restore it. John Cobb plans to rehabilitate a 110-year-old building at 16 Shetland St. to use ... Read More
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7509" align="alignnone" width="506" caption="The Smith House is located next to the MMP&W Volunteer Fire Co. The board that oversees the fire company says it needs the land to expand its aging facilities. Len Barcousky/Post-Gazette"]... Read More
Monday, November 01, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Monday, November 01, 2010 By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Up hills, along tight curves and down into the river valleys, a bus full of local real-estate agents navigated Pittsburgh last week on a tour the Urban Redevelopment Authority put together to boost city home sales. "I just got a whole different perspective," said ... Read More
Thursday, October 28, 2010 By Norm Vargo Will the Lamp shine again? The once-popular movie theater in downtown Irwin closed in 2005. Its marquee still boldly predicts "the Lamp will shine again." But $500,000 is needed for that to happen. Westmoreland Cultural Trust acquired ownership from Irwin-based KCS Real Estate Services in 2007. KCS purchased ... Read More
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Youth friendly music venue The Red Theater makes noise in historic Polish Hill building
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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A beautiful piece of Polish Hill history is experiencing a second life as an all ages performance venue. ... Read More
By Brian C. Rittmeyer, VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Sunday, October 24, 2010 [caption id="attachment_7364" align="alignnone" width="372" caption="Linda Alworth of Gilpin points out a portion of a common area in the second floor of the future Lingrow Inn on Market Street in Leechburg. Jason Bridge | Valley News Dispatch"]... Read More
Thursday, October 21, 2010 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As the community prepares to shine a headlight on the historic pairing of the jeep and Butler, efforts have been ongoing to promote the preservation of the site where the jeep was manufactured: the Bantam building off Hansen Avenue in Pullman Center Business ... Read More
Thursday, October 21, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A former porn theater would become a food market and apartments would anchor the upper floors of buildings under a plan to redevelop a rundown block of North Avenue on the North Side. The team of Zukin Development Corp. and Collaborative Ventures is proposing ... Read More
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The future of the Civic Arena, the iconic silver-domed structure that has graced Pittsburgh's skyline for nearly half a century, could be decided Thursday. City-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority members are scheduled to vote that day on whether to demolish the 49-year-old landmark ... Read More
Saturday, October 16, 2010
By Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Never overlook the potential of a small lot.
Pittsburgh artist Rose Clancy's ... Read More
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May the best burrito win. Chipotle Mexican Grill is the latest restaurant headed for Market Square, claiming about 2,300 square feet of space on the first floor of the former G.C. Murphy store. It will compete against another Market Square Mexican-style restaurant, Moe's Southwest Grill. Chipotle ... Read More
Thursday, October 14, 2010 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The former Trinity Industries building in Butler, fresh from a yearlong, $1 million rehabilitation, is open for business. A project of the Butler Community Development Corp., the building was debuted at an event described by corporation executive director Ken Raybuck as "Deal Day." The building ... Read More
Thursday, October 14, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Michael Sriprasert promised Wilkinsburg residents on Tuesday that they would have new neighbors next fall. Mr. Sriprasert, director of real estate development for the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, is overseeing two new housing projects in Wilkinsburg worth almost $10 million. "By this time next ... Read More
By Chris Ramirez PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Last updated: 8:02 am [caption id="attachment_7307" align="alignnone" width="245" caption="Jay Willis plays the saxophone during a dedication of a mural Tuesday evening in Wilkinsburg. The Wilkinsburg Community Development Corp. dedicated the mural as part of the organization's public art program to preserve, restore and enhance ... Read More
By Chris Ramirez PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Last updated: 2:37 pm A public-private partnership today detailed plans for $10 million in house-restoration projects in Wilkinsburg. A total of $8.6 million will be used to renovate two early 20th century apartment houses — the Crescent Building at Rebecca and Kelly avenues and the ... Read More
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A public-private partnership today unveiled plans to do housing restoration projects in Wilkinsburg worth almost $10 million. "This investment will expand our ability to attract people back to Wilkinsburg," Mayor John Thompson said after the announcement. He was one of 10 speakers from government agencies ... Read More
Monday, October 11, 2010 By Ruth Ann Dailey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Conflicts are the bread-and-butter of journalism, of course -- so much so that readers and reporters alike can find it all occasionally wearying. So when a big, juicy conflict comes to a sorta-kinda happy resolution, it's a ... Read More
Renovated on one side; condemned on the other
Monday, October 11, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Among Pittsburgh's many stories, one plays out in every neighborhood and is ... Read More
Auto body shop owner will train budding mechanics in 14,500-square-foot facility Friday, October 01, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7280" align="alignnone" width="330" caption="Mike Fiore and his son, Michael, expect Mike's Auto Body and Vocational Center in Larimer to be fully operational by early next year. Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette"]... Read More
By Thomas Olson, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 30, 2010 [caption id="attachment_7268" align="alignnone" width="319" caption="The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation was given the easement to the historic Burke Building, Downtown, by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy so the foundation can assure no future owners tear it down or alter its exterior. Jasmine Goldband ... Read More
By Matthew Santoni PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 30, 2010 Allegheny County residents Wednesday night offered their ideas for revitalizing the rundown fairgrounds in South Park as part of the county's push to reuse or redevelop it. More than 100 people attended the meeting in the Museum Building to discuss how they'd like to ... Read More
Total transformation of Allegheny Public Square moves forward with completion of final design phase Wednesday, September 29, 2010 The City of Pittsburgh, in partnership with The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, community members, and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, have completed the second major phase of design for the revitalization ... Read More
