A rendering of the green space planned next to the proposed 26-story office tower.
The Pittsburgh Penguins and their development partners aim to break ground on a 26-story office tower on the Lower Hill this summer. Many stakeholders are eager to see investment, but want to ensure investment benefits the neighborhood as a whole. At a meeting Monday night, residents noted that while the developers have made numerous reinvestment promises, the specifics remain unclear, and therefore, unenforceable.
As she began the meeting, Hill Community Development Corporation CEO Marimba Milliones said she’s more eager than anyone to see development.
“But we have to make sure we do it in a way that does not wash away the residents of our community, that does not sweep away the culture of our neighborhood,” she said.
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Lee Nellis first wrote in Mountain Journal about the failures of conservation. Now he wants to provoke a real discussion about how not to become Colorado. Are we ready to take aversive action?
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When planners pursue growth without any regard given to the natural processes that hold wild and pastoral landscapes together, communities that count such things as part of their character are destined to lose them. What good is open space if it vacant of inhabitants that used to live there? Poorly planned growth and development first rubs out wildlife migrations and then fragments agriculture and ultimately results in disjointed human spaces that have no memory of the actual place that drew them there. This is just part of problems that Nellis gets at in his essay. You can t save the essence of communities by adhering to consumptive models that failed in other places. Photo of a community along the Front
The Peninsula Health District is working with community partners to help identify members of underserved or high-risk groups on the Peninsula who need assistance.
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