County Urban Farm Effort Expands in Second Year 'Allegheny Grows' will donate produce to food pantries, families in need Thursday, February 17, 2011 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A new "urban farm" in Bellevue will help North Hills Community Outreach achieve one of its top goals for the more than 1,200 families ... Read More
Thursday, December 09, 2010 By Margaret Smykla The public put its money where its mouth was during a public meeting last week about the future of the South Park Fairgrounds. Everyone in the audience was given $500 in fake money to play a kind of board game, placing the "money" on an element ... Read More
By Matthew Santoni PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, December 2, 2010 A cluster of former fairground buildings along Brownsville Road in South Park could get a green makeover, under three plans officials presented Wednesday night as part of Allegheny County's effort to revitalize the park. Titled the "modified," "campus" and "picturesque" concept plans, each ... 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 Bob Karlovits, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, November 22, 2010 Many small towns have rich stories, but few tell them as well as Vandergrift. Part of that tale is in the layout of the historic area of the 115-year-old town. Designed by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, the creator of New York ... 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
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
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 Pop City Media Wilkinsburg's main commercial district on Penn Avenue suffers from a 38% vacancy rate, but a $25,000 grant from State Representative Joseph Preston Jr. to the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation is the most recent achievement for the growing two year old organization hard at ... Read More
Saturday, November 06, 2010 By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7644" align="alignnone" width="330" caption="A model replica of the Agnew-Anderson House, built in 1808, is among the exhibits in "Bricks, Mortar and Charm," an exhibition at the Beaver Area Heritage Museum. Bob Donaldson / Post-Gazette"]... 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
By Tony LaRussa
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010
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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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By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Monday, October 25, 2010 Last updated: 5:41 am Six local communities were chosen for a pilot project of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council to revitalize river towns with free professional services, work plans and tips on finding money to pay for the urban makeovers. Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, O'Hara and Blawnox are ... 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
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
Thursday, September 30, 2010 11:05 AM
Staff Blogs by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
One of the best features of Pittsburgh's compact Downtown is its open spaces, plazas and walkways where pedestrians can take a short breather from daily routines without even ... Read More
First-time event to highlight area's change, influence Friday, October 01, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7273" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="In this photo taken in the 1890s, Civil War veterans participate in a reunion in front of a building on Penn Circle South that is still standing in East Liberty. The ... 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
The Carnegie struggles with honoring the past while serving the present and future Sunday, March 02, 2003 By Patricia Lowry, Post-Gazette Architecture Critic From Fiji to Florida to Fresno, Calif., Andrew Carnegie built 2,509 libraries between 1881 and 1917, mostly in America, the British Isles and Canada. To this day, ... Read More
Thursday, September 30, 2010 By Tina Calabro The name of Sister Thea Bowman may not be widely recognized, but within the Catholic education community, she is celebrated for her commitment to the education of underprivileged children, especially those of African-American descent. Sister Thea, a Mississippi native and granddaughter of a slave, converted to ... Read More
By Stacey Federoff TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, September 15, 2010 The Great Allegheny Passage trail generates $40 million a year in economic spending, and a preservation plan is intended to use historic preservation in six trail towns to harness that spending power. A meeting Tuesday night in West Newton hosted by the Progress Fund's Trail ... Read More
