Streetface program in city faces questions
June 25, 2008
On Upper Lawrenceville’s still-spotty 5200 block of Butler Street, a building fronted with a glass mosaic and one with the partly-painted facade across the street represent the rise and decline of one of Pittsburgh’s most successful redevelopment programs.
Behind the explosion of color and texture that greets visitors to Prism Stained Glass toils Catherine Berard, who used the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Streetface program to turn a storefront from plain clapboard into revelation. Back in 2006, she was one of 15 individuals and firms that tapped the program for a total of $607,854, according to data provided by the URA.
The place across the street, where laborers painted last week, READ MORE
Pittsburgh’s URA to buy Lawrenceville land
June 16, 2008
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority agreed Thursday to buy a nearly 22-acre plot of industrial land in the city’s Lawrenceville neighborhood.
The property, which the URA’s board of directors agreed Thursday to buy for $2 million, is owned by the Tippin family and was previously used for steel fabrication, said Robert Rubinstein, director for economic development at the URA.
The property’s main plant has been closed for decades, however.
“We are always looking at sites that are under utilized,” READ MORE
Pink Building Condos
June 7, 2006
Pink Building between Strip District and Lawrenceville set for 14 condos.
Source: Pop City Media.