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Preservation Magazine OnlineBy Rick Wills PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 2, 2010 A group working to renovate and reopen the Denis Theatre in Mt. Lebanon signed a sales agreement Wednesday to buy the building. The Denis Theatre Foundation agreed to pay $668,750 for the theater on Washington Road. The theater, which opened 72 years ago, closed ... Read More
By Jewels Phraner
LIGONIER ECHO
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Saving Sleepy Hollow hasn't gone exactly the way owner Fred Haeflein expected.
He's had a ... Read More
By Adam Brandolph PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 2, 2010 [caption id="attachment_7056" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Linda Nelson, chairwoman of the Manchester Citizens Corporation, inspects one of the properties being restored on Columbus Avenue in Manchester. The home was purchased as part of the Great House Sale. Jasmine Goldband | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
'Recapitalization' shinier than selling Wednesday, September 01, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The owner of one Downtown building has removed its "for sale" sign. Rather than sell, New York-based Blackstone Group has decided to retain ownership of EQT Plaza, formerly known as Dominion Tower, and refinance its debt. "They just decided with the way ... Read More
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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When the Pittsburgh Public Market in the Strip opens Friday, patrons will see some tried-and-true faces -- La Prima ... Read More
By Michael Machosky, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, August 31, 2010 [caption id="attachment_7038" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Siblings (from left), Xanthe Schandelmeier, 5; Coco, 9; and Vivienne, 7, of Squirrel Hill, sample sweets at Prasad Potluri's Spice by Tamarind booth in the Pittsburgh Public Market. More than 40 vendors will showcase their wares in a ... Read More
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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E Properties and Development is nearing completion on the transformation of two blighted properties on 38th Street in Lawrenceville, contributing to the major revitalization efforts taking place on the hill between Butler ... Read More
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Sad news from Cambria County: Cresson Township supervisors plan to demolish the Benjamin Franklin Jones Cottage sometime after ... Read More
By Richard Gazarik TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, August 30, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6996" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Mayor Robert Carter plans to meet today in New York with developer Abraham Zion to try to come up with a plan to redevelop the former Jeannette Glass property. Sean Stipp | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Anyone who's ever driven over the Rankin Bridge has seen the towering behemoth in the distance, and a quick image search of "Carrie Furnace" provides evidence that the former iron ore site, since it ... Read More
By Jeremy Boren PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, August 24, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6977" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Lisa Haabestad (left) of Shadyside and Diana Ames of Friendship show their support for reuse of the Civic Arena during the Sports and Exhibition Authority board meeting in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Jasmine Goldband | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"]... Read More
By Jeremy Boren
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Market Square survived its extreme makeover. Now cue the customers.
Downtown's eatery-laden plaza reopened Tuesday to Forbes Avenue traffic for ... Read More
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Panel challenged over sudden switch to allow demolition
The future of a ... Read More
By Matthew Santoni
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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Not long after city boosters practically gave up ... Read More
By Kurt Shaw, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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Three years ago when Atticus Adams and his partner, Garry ... Read More
Thursday, August 19, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The road to the Carrie Furnace is a busted up concrete and dirt track. Crickets bounce like popcorn over ... Read More
By Chris Ramirez PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, August 19, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6924" align="alignnone" width="278" caption="August "Augie" Carlino, president and CEO of the Steel Industry Heritage Corp., outlines proposed development at the Carrie Furnaces site. The site is a 168-acre brownfield that spans Munhall, Rankin, Swissvale and Whitaker boroughs, as well as the city ... Read More
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones and Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_6912" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Architects Jerry Morosco, left, and Bob Russ, who serves on the South Side's East Carson Committee, stand in front of 2628 E. Carson St., the building that could be demolished to make way for a ... Read More
Supper Club added at Train Station
Thursday, August 12, 2010
By Amanda Gillooly
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Since The Supper Club opened at The Greensburg Train Station in June, Deb Driggers ... Read More
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Fineview Citizens Council has nominated for historic status the retaining wall that served as part of the foundation of an incline that ran from the hilltop neighborhood to a base station where Henderson and Federal streets meet. At Wednesday's Historic ... Read More
By Michael Aubele, Tribune-Review News Service Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Pier No. 5 won an eleventh-hour stay of execution late Monday. "We are going to leave it in the river," Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission CEO Joseph G. Brimmeier said about the old Allegheny River Bridge pier standing between Harmar and 14-Mile Island. Tom Fox, ... Read More
Burning coal is a dirty job, one that Andrew Carnegie’s smokestack did for 102 years. It is now being disassembled.
The Allegheny County Health Department ordered a switch from coal to gas at the Bellefield Boiler Plant last year, and at the same time, the 1907 ... Read More
By Michael Aubele, TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE/VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Sunday, August 8, 2010 If a pedestrian bridge is built to connect Harmar and 14-Mile Island, it won't use an old Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge pier as a support, turnpike and construction officials said. "The pier is coming down," turnpike spokesman Tom Fox said about ... Read More
By Paul Paterra
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, August 9, 2010
Saltsburg Mule Barn
Two Kiski School graduates are making sure Saltsburg's old "mule barn" is around and kicking for years to come.
Actor David Conrad and businessman Craig Spitzer plan to buy the two-story, 19th-century timber frame structure from the ... Read More
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 When Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh needed to move from their beautiful Victorian mansions at 500 and 512 Shady Avenue in preparation for their move to new facilities in the Oakland Children's Hospital in 2008, they sold the homes to Franklin West, Inc, a family ... Read More
Saturday, July 31, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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CRESSON, Cambria County
In the late 1880s, when ... Read More
Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Margaret Hagan knew Broadway Avenue in passing as ... Read More
Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Brian David, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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One of the ideas driving the renovation of the Roxian Theater ... Read More
Thursday, July 29, 2010 By Brian David, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When Andrew Hieber saw a "for sale" 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 ... Read More
Thursday, July 29, 2010 By Candy Woodall - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 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, ... Read More
Saturday, July 17, 2010
By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Even by North Side standards, 621 Tripoli St. was a challenge.
The original 1890s brick townhouse was intact, but the later ... Read More
By Mary Pickels TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 22, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6728" align="alignnone" width="230" caption="Fayette County Historical Society President Jeremy Burnworth is in the restored main room on the second floor of the former Abel Colley Tavern, which will is the society's headquarters. Barry Reeger | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
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. "Parking, parking, parking," said Irene Karavolos, co-owner of Steve's New York Hot Dogs on Federal Street. "You ... Read More
dBy Matthew Santoni, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, July 17, 2010
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Allegheny County officials are hoping ... 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
