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For community groups, residents and business owners, the question is how to strike a balance between new growth and preserving economic diversity in the neighborhood.
City and community leaders unveiled a 'comprehensive community plan' for Homewood on Tuesday to about 150 attendees. The plan with address housing and more.
Crystal Jennings’s life was thrust into Pittsburgh’s affordable housing saga in July 2015. Her father, Jerome, was one of more than 200 Penn Plaza residents forced to move from the apartment complex. At the time, her father was in failing health. He died of liver cancer in May 2018, a little more than a year after being displaced. However, Crystal’s ties to the Penn Plaza community would only grow stronger over time. She is a core organizer for Penn Plaza Support and Action and helps take care of former residents as if they’re family.
Richard Morris, housing director of The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, said the program is an opportunity for seniors in particular “to get some extra cash.”
Bloomfield residents on Wednesday saw the final result of months-long neighborhood brainstorming effort about the future of the ShurSave IGA site.
Robert Rubinstein, the executive director and 30-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA], will step down in the coming months.
In some cases, fragments of historic sites survive based on their value as industrial heritage or their adaptability into venues for culture and tourism. In a few other cases, factory sheds are reused as office or light manufacturing spaces, if they can compete in the real estate market.But most often, it seems these relics of our industrial roots are razed.
Residents and business owners near Pittsburgh’s Hays Woods heard good news Wednesday night about one of their greatest fears.
“If you ask five questions on the same subject, you get five different answers. It's frightening, it really is.”
With the future character of Bloomfield in question, more than 50 residents gathered at West Penn Hospital and recalled their favorite neighborhood memories using hair curlers, action figures, dice and other trinkets.
