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…
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Pittsburgh's 53rd Light Up Night continues grand traditions
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,…
Read MoreBill Peduto wants to make Pittsburgh's Smithfield Street a 'Grand Boulevard'
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…
Read MoreResidents of Homewood search for alternative to demolishing houses
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…
Read MoreOffices, Stores, Hotel to Surround UPMC/Pittsburgh Penguins Sports Complex in Cranberry
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…
Read MoreApartments rise on South Side
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…
Read MoreURA to consider South Side apartments
By Aaron Aupperlee Published: Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, 11:29 p.m. Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority will consider on Thursday two projects to build apartments in SouthSide Works. The apartment complexes would be among the first built in the dining, retail and entertainment development since a 2002 agreement prohibited residential development at the 123-acre site. The restrictions ended…
Read MoreSoffer teams with Village Green on new SouthSide Works project
The Soffer Organization has a new partner and a working design in place for a new apartment building on what is now a surface parking lot at the SouthSide Works. And it’s looking more and more like this new partner is one that will become increasingly familiar in Pittsburgh. Soffer is working with suburban Detroit-based…
Read MoreCranberry UPMC-Pittsburgh Penguins Sports Complex to Include Rinks for Tournaments, Retail Store and Concession Stand
The public will be able to watch the Pens pass the puck at selected practices. Posted by Jessica Sinichak (Editor), Cranberry Patch, July 2, 2013 at 09:10 am It’s possible residents and visitors will catch a glimpse of Sidney Crosby and other hockey stars at the new UPMC-Pittsburgh Penguins sports medicine facility and ice rinks proposed…
Read MoreNew apartments coming to the SouthSide Works
By Margaret L. Smykla www.sopghreporter.com News of a proposed apartment building at the corner of Hot Metal and Sidney streets was the sole presentation at the June 11 meeting of the South Side Planning Forum. The presenters were project manager Benjamin Kelley, and project director Michael Barnard, both of Oxford Development Company. Oxford will be…
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