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June 10, 2009
STEELTON, Pa., June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The foreclosed Wood Street Commons in downtown Pittsburgh; abandoned homes in Butler County; and foreclosed properties in Fayette County and other areas within Southwestern Pennsylvania will be turned into nearly 1,500 units of affordable housing with the award of more than $85 millionin federal economic recovery funds, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
By Diana Nelson Jones,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A year ago, Duane Hill went Downtown from his home on Sheffield Street to ask the ...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A Rolling Rock billboard that hangs over Downtown, and drew the ire of preservationists, will come down within a month, said the attorney for its owners.
Attorney Joel Aaronson, of Reed Smith, said sign firm Capitol Outdoor Inc. decided to remove the sign rather ...
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PREPARED TESTIMONY OF
ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ.
GENERAL COUNSEL
PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION
BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH
PUBLIC HEARING ON THE OLD STONE TAVERN
CITY HISTORIC STRUCTURE NOMINATION
April 1, 2009
Landmarks supports the nomination of the Old Stone Tavern to become a City-Designated Historic Structure.
The building was surveyed in both of Landmarks’ architectural ...
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by Anne E. Nelson, General Counsel
PHLF News
March 11, 2009
On March 11, 2009, Landmarks joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Landmarks Illinois, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Cleveland Restoration Society, sixty-three Illinois municipalities and other organizations in filing an amicus curiae motion before the Supreme Court of Illinois in ...
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By
Tony LaRussa
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The city's Historic Review Commission on Wednesday took the first formal step to protect the Old Stone Inn, a former tavern in the West End that some people believe to be the second-oldest building in Pittsburgh.
The commission voted unanimously to begin ...
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by Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., President
March 4th, 2009
PHLF News
Friends of the Dormont Pool, which formed to save this huge swimming pool when the Borough was going to close it because of the expense of repairing it, has continued to raise funds to keep the pool open and on ...
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March 4th, 2009
PHLF News
At the request of Senator Jim Ferlo and the Natrona Comes Together Association in the Natrona Flats, Landmarks helped the organization secure the vacant Sweeney Hotel and Saloon built in 1900 at 36 Chestnut Street. Over the years the hotel had become a bank, an ...
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by Anne E. Nelson, General Counsel
PHLF News
February 26, 2009
On February 26, 2009, the Allegheny County Economic Development, Community Infrastructure and Tourism Board awarded Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation a $91,000 grant for the New Granada Theater stabilization project.
Thanks to this grant, the $1.1 million project is now ...
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KDKA Radio
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:10 a.m.
Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr. discusses the mortgage foreclosure crises and the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on KDKA News Radio 1020 with Larry Richert.
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