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The proposed redevelopment of part of the former Civic Arena site in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District cleared another hurdle Thursday, when the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority approved a series of actions that will allow the first part of the project to move forward. But the URA board, which includes city
A wish list of 90 projects in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties are among hundreds across the state seeking funding in the latest round of the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. They include $5 million for to redevelop a former Alcoa site in New Kensington, $5 million for a health sciences center
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The team behind the plans to redevelop the former Civic Arena site in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District made their case again Wednesday as the long-awaited project awaits further regulatory approvals, this time to the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority.
The URA board will vote on the plans when it meets at 2 p.m., June 10.
Members of the Buccini Pollan Group, the Wilmington, Del.-based group that is overseeing the project, redevelopment authority staffers and others briefed the URA board Wednesday for more than four hours Wednesday during a virtual briefing in advance of URA’s vote to move the project forward. The board includes Ed Gainey, who won the Democratic nomination in Pittsburgh’s mayoral race last week.
The development of the former Civic Arena site in the Lower Hill District cleared another hurdle in approvals for a $1 billion plan to redevelop it. But it took more than five hours of testimony Tuesday before the Pittsburgh Planning Commission before the vote to approve the first phase of