Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development

Community and performing arts venues lead revitalization in McKees Rocks

Pop City, March 24th, 2010
By Caralyn Green

"Similar to what's happening in East Liberty and Lawrenceville, we're looking to reinvent McKees Rocks as a destination community," says Taris Vrcek with McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation (MRCDC). "Folks aren't really looking west for things to do, but we're beginning to change that." Read more...

Revitalization Project Planned For West End Village

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 22nd, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones

Is the the year of the West End?  Dru Simeone thinks so -- and her enthusiasm rides on a new brand: West End Village. The executive director of the West Pittsburgh Partnership told a recent gathering of community development professionals and residents that the neighborhood has the chance it has sought for years: money and consultants to begin building a master plan. Read more...

Slumbering Pittsburgh Neighborhood Reawakens

The New York Times, March 2nd, 2010
By Christine H. O'Toole

PITTSBURGH — In the 1950s, the East Liberty neighborhood five miles east of downtown was Pennsylvania’s third-largest shopping district, behind Center City Philadelphia and downtown Pittsburgh, with more than 500 local businesses and a population of 14,000. Read More...

Northside Community Development Fund gets $4.6M grant

Pittsburgh Business Times, February 26th, 2010 

The Northside Community Development Fund has garnered its biggest grant ever, a $4.6 million check to be awarded by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Read More...

Uptown & the Hill: Putting the Pieces Together

Pittsburgh Business Times, February 26th, 2010

Sandwiched between the Central Business District and Oakland, the Hill District and Uptown appear to be ripe for development. Yet, the neighborhoods have deteriorated over the past few decades as both people and businesses fled. Read More...

Hilltop Help On The Way

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, February 26th, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones

Hilltop residents, with help from the Hilltop Alliance, have several new partnerships to lean on for help. The Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development recently awarded the Alliance $100,000 to help pay a professional director, community organizer and to begin to create what residents said they want at a fall meeting last year. Read More...

Manchester To Feature New Residential Centerpiece

Pittsburgh Courier, February 24th, 2010
By Rebecca Nuttall

Construction will soon commence on a 31-home community in the Manchester neighborhood of the North Side. The Columbus Square development will see its first five homes completed sometime during the summer. Read More...

Ten Neighborhoods under new umbrella

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 5th, 2009
By Diana Nelson Jones

It is no longer astonishing that groups from a bunch of neighborhoods get together and act toward a common goal - a sweeter life for all. Surprising, maybe, but no longer unheard of. The southern Hilltop neighborhoods now have a paid community organizer who has gotten organizations from six neighborhoods on board, literally, to form the board of the Hilltop Alliance, a newish community-building umbrella that has some serious technical assistance. Read More...

East Liberty becomes a vibrant community

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 8th, 2009
By Diana Nelson-Jones

East Liberty has gone from being a neighborhood in need of someone to invest private money to being a beehive. Sixteen developers are at work there currently. Two new hotels are coming, the first hotels in decades. The Eastside complex that includes Whole Foods is expanding. Hundreds of new homes are being built, and a green-infrastructure plan will bring geothermal heating and cooling to about 800 of them. Storm water sequestration plans are in the works, as is a European-style town square. Read More...

Irwin Projects looks at expanding commercial space

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 20th, 2009
By Vera Miller

Irwin Project is working with Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development to help the downtown area reach the next economic level. Downtown Irwin is running out of space for new businesses, so Irwin Project, a program of Irwin Main Street, wants to study whether second-floor commercial space would be viable, said Donn Henderson, Irwin Main Street manager. Read More...

Super store: The dollars line up for the Hill's full-size market

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 18th, 2009

Sometimes it takes a village to finance a supermarket, especially in historically underserved neighborhoods like the Hill District. It has been decades since the Hill had a viable full-size market. The region's supermarket chains insisted they couldn't make the numers work to justify an investment in the neighborhood. Planting a quality grocery store on the Hill for a time even joined the litany of perennial election promises. Read More...

URA provides land for grocery store in the Hill
 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 12th, 2009
By Jeremy Boren

Construction of a proposed Hill District grocery could begin in the next six months if developers are able to put the final touches on a complex mosaic of mostly public funding to pay for it. The Urban Redevelopment Authority's board of directors today voted to give Hill House Economic Development Corp. access to land along Centre Avenue, where the development group plans to build a 40,000-square-foot Kuhn's grocery store. The development group will pay the URA $580,000 for more than 20 parcels that must be assembled. Read More...
 

Grant boosts Federal-North project

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 30th, 2008
By Diana Nelson Jones

The Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Devleopment has made the first large grant of it's initiative to help corridors on the brink of rebirth. It has given the Northside Leadership Conference $125,000 for a project of the Allegheny City Corridor—the long-awaited Federal North development. Read More...

Neighbors join to redevelop East End

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 14th, 2008
By Diana Nelson Jones

Leading community devleopment organizations in five city neighborhoods have joined forces as the East End Parternship. The Lawrenceville Corp., Bloomfrield-Garfield Corp., Bloomfield Business Association, Friendship Development Associates and East Liberty Development Inc. "decided we are going to venture out as a regional group," said Rick Swartz, executive director of the Bloomfield-Garfield Corp., whose focus despite its name, is on Garfield. Read More...

Interns find they can make a difference at non-profit CDCs

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 19, 2008
By Diana Nelson Jones

Academia's interest in nonprofit management and a return of investment to city neighborhoods have made Pittsburgh's organizations attractive training grounds, and grantors are investing in projects in which the students participate. Read More...

Redefining Pittsburgh’s neighborhood districts

Pittsburgh Business Times, April 18, 2008
By Tim Schooley

There's more to Pittsburgh neighborhoods than meets the eye. This article highlights just a few of Pittsburgh's unique community business districts and the transformations that they are undergoing, from new developments to county-wide changes in the way these communities are funded. Read More...

10 new single-family homes coming to Homewood

Pop City , February 6, 2008
By Jennifer Baron

Ten new single-family homes will soon be under construction along the 7500 block of Susquehanna Street, adjacent to Helen Faison Arts Academy in Homewood. The 30-unit residential project will also bring new homes to Braddock Avenue, Finance Street and North Homewood Avenue. Construction is expected to start in March. Read More...