The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is entering another phase of construction on the North Promenade in Allegheny Commons Park. The project will reconstruct a 15-foot-wide central promenade along North Avenue, realign the system of connecting pathways and plant more than 100 trees at the park, according to the conservancy. There will
Pittsburgh’s Land Bank is now expecting to buy and sell fewer properties than officials initially hoped, after the city pulled $3 million of the bank’s proposed $10 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding. While Mayor Ed Gainey had initially proposed giving the Land Bank a $10 million infusion from
Pittsburgh City Council gave preliminary approval Wednesday to several proposed changes to next year’s budgets, including measures that would again revise the city’s American Rescue Plan Act spending plan and give themselves a pay raise. Mayor Ed Gainey last month introduced a 2023 budget for American Rescue Plan Act funding
Pittsburgh City Council made a series of changes Tuesday to its proposed 2023 budgets, including amendments to refund the Land Bank, keep the city’s cable bureau and print shop out of the mayor’s office and nix plans for several new positions. Council preliminarily voted to move $4 million in American
Pittsburgh police on Thursday said their protection had been requested at a Brighton Heights funeral where six people were injured in a shooting last week, but officers were not there when the violence erupted. A shooting outside Destiny of Faith Church on Oct. 28 cut short a funeral for North