PPND | Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development

Where We Work

CHAMPION NEIGHBORHOODS
- Allegheny City
- East End
- Hilltop
- Pittsburgh Central
South Side
East Liberty
Oakland
Lawrenceville

When neighbors pull together to change a community’s fortunes, good things happen. New businesses arrive. Families prosper. Streetlights shine. PPND has witnessed those success stories across the city. South Side’s transformation, unseen two decades ago, is almost complete. In East Liberty and Lawrenceville, commercial development and new housing are arriving quickly, and in Oakland, residents are finding better homes and good jobs. View our case studies and meet communities whose small steps produced big changes.

Champion Neighborhoods

Successful neighborhoods don’t exist in a vacuum and are not defined by a limited geography. PPND encourages next-door neighborhoods that share markets, transit routes, schools, public safety and workforce to pool their efforts and jointly find solutions. To realize and incent that goal, starting in 2010, 85% of PPND funds will be directed to four multi-neighborhood clusters which have been designated and coined as "Champion Neighborhoods" read more...

South Side

The comeback of East Carson Street, the heart of Pittsburgh’s steelworking South Side, is a success story 23 years in the making. Led by the South Side Local Development Company (South Side LDC), the neighborhood has added 250 new businesses, renovated 230 storefronts, and constructed over 100 new homes. On that foundation, market-rate housing and mixed-use development have flourished. read more...

East Liberty

For East Liberty, 1999 was bootstrap time. Seeking to reverse the loss of over one million square feet of commercial space and four decades of decline and blight, the community devised a plan for jobs, housing, and retail around the historic shopping district. PPND provided steadfast operating support for East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI) as it mapped a strategy. read more...

Oakland

In the midst of the city’s expanding medical–university complex, Oakland Planning and Development Corporation found a way to link local residents to new healthcare careers. With long-term support from PPND, OPDC’s Hill-Oakland Workforce Collaborative program has matched over 2,700 people with local employers, ensuring that economic growth benefits all sectors of the community. read more...

Lawrenceville

After nearly a decade of grassroots efforts to fight blight, promote business growth, and attract new residents, Lawrenceville now faces its biggest challenge: the opening of the new Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in the heart of the neighborhood. Since 2001, PPND has helped the Lawrenceville Corporation grow its capacity and capital by providing annual operating support for its comprehensive five-year business plan. read more...