After three productive meetings with community stakeholders in Dormont and Carnegie this spring, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation is compiling planning documents for the two boroughs, which are the latest entrants into Allegheny County’s downtown revitalization program. Allegheny Together, a comprehensive downtown revitalization program aimed at improving the physical attributes ... Read More
Plans to run school board candidates to block Crafton Elementary closure Thursday, February 24, 2011 By Kim Lawrence Carlynton Parents Group Vows to Keep School A parents group in the Carlynton School District plans to run a slate of candidates in an effort to reverse the decision to consolidate Crafton and Carnegie ... Read More
Thursday, February 17, 2011 By Deborah M. Todd, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Opponents to Closing Pitcairn Elementary School State Case Using a range of emotional and economic arguments, dozens opposed to the proposed closing of Pitcairn Elementary School stated their case Tuesday night during a public hearing hosted by the Gateway School District. Standing ... Read More
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
By Richard Gazarik, TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Plans Revealed for Ex-Fayette Hospital Site An Allegheny County development firm plans to build a medical facility and student housing at the site of the former Brownsville Tri-County Hospital in Fayette County, a company official disclosed. Falck Properties of Bethel Park said Tuesday ... Read More
Thursday, February 10, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Construction Managers Picked for New Hill Grocery A Hill District grocery store is moving a step closer to reality. The Hill House Economic Development Corp. announced today that it had hired the joint venture team of L.S. Brinker and CM Solutions to serve ... Read More
Thursday, February 10, 2011 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Grant to Help Return Saxonburg Main Street to 1850s Saxonburg's Main Street program manager says he's feeling "pretty blessed" by the news last month that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation had come through with a $1.4 million grant. The money was both needed ... Read More
Blue Spruce a Murrysville landmark Thursday, February 10, 2011 By Laurie Bailey Vacant Motel Coming Down Murrysville's landmark Blue Spruce Motel on Route 22 will be demolished at the end of this month. "Basically, it's going to be a flat piece of land," said Hallie Chatfield, revitalization coordinator at the Westmoreland Redevelopment Authority. ... Read More
Thursday, February 10, 2011 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Allegheny Grows Funds First-Year Projects in Wilkinsburg, Bellevue and Penn Hills "Allegheny Grows" is itself growing with urban-agriculture projects spreading to three more communities. Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato will announce today that Bellevue, Wilkinsburg and Penn Hills will be the sites this ... Read More
Tuesday, February 08, 2011 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Deal Reached to Save Historic Franklin County House A history-loving physician has worked out a deal to save an 18th century home in Mercersburg. Dr. Paul Orange said today the William Smith House will be taken apart piece by piece over the next ... Read More
By Bill Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, February 3, 2011 Former City Councilman Sala Udin was among the 8,000 residents and businesses in the lower Hill District who were displaced in the 1950s for construction of the Civic Arena. On Wednesday, he urged Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission to reject a push to grant ... Read More
By Bill Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, February 3, 2011 The city's Historic Review Commission will allow the president of Iron City Brewing Co. to tear down a dilapidated building at its former Lawrenceville production site. The commission on Wednesday said Tim Hickman should provide it with photographs and other documentation of the ... Read More
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
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Since they were left vacant in 1995, the row of five historic brick houses on 48th Street, between Hatfield and Butler Streets, in ... Read More
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
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When Pop City last reported on The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation's Wilkinsburg redevelopment projects in 2008, four ... Read More
By Craig Smith PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, February 2, 2011 [caption id="attachment_8663" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Arthur Ziegler, president of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, surveys Fifth Avenue, Downtown, part of an area his group has earmarked for more redevelopment like its Market at Fifth project. The foundation is awaiting word on whether ... Read More
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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The Madonna del Castello Church at 7416 Duquesne Avenue in Swissvale has sat vacant for ... Read More
By George Guido, FOR THE VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Bill Godfrey of Natrona Comes Together, the grassroots neighborhood improvement group, says the group has a list of goals for this year for this aging, riverside neighborhood that's nestled between two steel mills. One is establishing a row-house museum on Federal ... 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
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Denis Theatre Foundation on Wednesday named Valerie Golik, the former executive director of The Pittsburgh Philharmonic, as its new executive director. She replaces board member Jennifer Smokelin, who has served as interim director since the fall. "We are delighted that Valerie is joining the Denis Theatre Foundation," ... 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
By Tom Fontaine PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, January 7, 2011 Saxonburg has received a $1.4 million state grant to make long-awaited improvements along historic Main Street without robbing any of its 19th century charm. "We're going to take new materials and create an atmosphere like it was in the 1850s and '60s," said ... 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
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
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 Pop City Media On December 28, the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation received its second annual installment of funding from Tristate Capital Bank, totaling $289,500. The funding is part of a six year, $1.8 million commitment by the bank in order to assist ... Read More
Thursday, December 30, 2010 By Jacob Flannick Sustaining local agriculture and preserving the environment will be important areas of focus during construction of Chatham University's Eden Hall Campus in Richland, Chatham's president told the Pine-Richland school board at its last meeting. Many of the barns at the 388-acre farm on Ridge Road that ... Read More
Thursday, December 30, 2010 Mayor Robert Carter said he would be "trying to do more" during his second year in office in Jeannette. He wants to get more houses up and sold along South Sixth Street. As part of a $31 million effort to revamp the city, 25 new, single-family homes and ... Read More
Sunday, December 26, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The city is looking to brighten up some "dark corners" Downtown. Aided by a $4 million state redevelopment assistance grant, the Urban Redevelopment Authority hopes to target rundown buildings Downtown and work with property owners to upgrade them. The project is designed to supplement a ... Read More
Ben Muessig AOL News (Dec. 2) -- Preservationists outside Pittsburgh are fighting to put an abandoned steel mill back to work -- not so it can produce metal, but so it can protect history. Since the blast furnaces fired up for the last time at the Carrie Furnace in 1978, the decaying steel ... 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 Jeremy Boren PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Pittsburgh could be deep into summer by the time an effort to save the Civic Arena is settled. The Historic Review Commission is expected Jan. 5 to review a nomination to dub the 49-year-old, silver-domed arena a historic structure, a designation that would ... 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
For a project sponsored by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, a team of Heinz students established a latent market for restored homes in Wilkinsburg. Advised by Jerry Paytaz, director of Economic Architecture at GSP ... Read More
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