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By Christian Morrow – New Pittsburgh Courier It wasn’t long ago, Black community leaders–specifically Tim Stevens and Louis “Hop” Kendrick–would frequently call the New Pittsburgh Courier to alert the paper that they had driven by a construction project in one of the city’s African-American neighborhoods and seen no Black faces on the job. If either…

www.wpxi.com – Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 Downtown Pittsburgh is expected to see 800,000 people over Light Up Night weekend, kicking off events expected to generate an estimated $21 million in economic impact. On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership released details and schedules for an expanded holiday initiative for downtown Pittsburgh, designed to increase support for the…

By Kellie B. Gormly Published: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, 11:03 a.m. The 53rd-annual Light Up Night on Nov. 22 will offer an additional performance stage in Mellon Square, another new show in Market Square and a three-block area of Smithfield Street where you can enjoy nostalgic dancing in the street. And the Peoples Gas Holiday Market,…

By Mark Belko/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The mayoral candidate’s vision includes local boutiques, small shops, new sidewalks, lamp posts, bike lanes and more Local boutiques, small shops, new sidewalks and lamp posts, perhaps even a dedicated lane for bicyclists. It’s all part of city councilman Bill Peduto’s vision for Smithfield Street, the 11-block thoroughfare — even longer…

By Diana Nelson Jones / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Homewood’s sense of place is eroding so fast that 184 homes have been razed since 2011 and another 232 are condemned. Residents are torn. They value the building stock that attests to better days, but blight is outpacing opportunities to save what’s viable. Just in time for the neighborhood’s biggest…

By Bill Vidonic Published: Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, 9:00 p.m. A proposed development that would showcase a sports complex for the Pittsburgh Penguins also features office, retail and hotel space, according to a presentation to Cranberry’s Planning Advisory Commission. “I think it completes that quadrant of the township,” said township community development Director Ron Henshaw…

By Mark Belko / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Developers jump at opportunities after limits end Freed last year from a restriction that prevented apartment-building for a decade,SouthSide Worksis now making up for lost time. No fewer than three apartment developments are in the works at theSouth Sideriverfront complex, the latest a 262-unit building to be erected at Sidney and…