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Wow, can't believe Cracker Barrel's new logo.

Five new bus stations open in Downtown Pittsburgh as part of PRT's University Line Five new bus stations are open in Downtown Pittsburgh starting Sunday as Pittsburgh Regional Transit rolls out a big upgrade as part of its University Line Project. KDKA-TV's Jessica Riley reports.

Great to see new bus stations installed downtown!

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Another apartment building coming to the North Shore! Surface parking lots around PNC are almost gone, just need to work on the surface lots around Acrisure.

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Lawsuit calls on Pa. to change 'grossly non-uniform' property tax assessment system A lawsuit filed by a public-interest group says the state's rules for property reassessment are unconstitutional, because it permits counties to go years or decades without revaluing properties — a…

It's beyond time PA joins the rest of the nation in doing frequent, fair property reassessments. The state shouldn't wait for the courts and should fix this as soon as possible.

Sara Innamorato's 500 in 500 plan is progressing nicely.

This could be the 10th Street Bypass and Mon Warf if we dream big enough.

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Proposed $500M Bakery Square expansion on track for council vote A $500 million proposal to expand the Bakery Square development in Pittsburgh’s East End is inching forward nearly a year after it earned approval from the Planning Commission. City Council on T...

Bakery Square expansion has cleared the final hurdle before council vote. The suburban shopping mall next to the best transit infrastructure in the region has its days numbered!
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Construction underway on Lawrenceville apartment development - Pittsburgh Business Times New Lawrenceville apartment project now underway with fall 2027 completion planned.

334 homes begin construction in Lawrenceville!

34 units are a part of the county's 500 in 500 initiative!

Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ elders find strength in community — and soon, dedicated housing One new resource coming to Pittsburgh’s queer elder community this year is Mosaic Apartments, an LGBTQ-friendly senior living center, set to open in October.

One of the many exciting projects being built in Pittsburgh is the Mosaic - a 48 unit building in Oakland as affordable housing for LGBTQ+ seniors.

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IZ is just another requirement the prevents building housing. It's exclusionary.

"We need more housing that's affordable but I don't want it near me so I'd rather keep it as a failed hotel"

Except, parking mandates in areas seeing development are already waived through zoning or through a ZBA hearing. So again, are you in support of those reforms or are you only in support of them to pass mandatory iz?

Are you saying that IZ is an opt-in system that provides zoning relief in exchange of IZ units? Or that parking minimums, lot size minimums, ADUs, and TOD are tied to IZ and you do not support them without IZ?

There is not ample subsidy from the government or else that would be happening without a mandate. And is the 2 for every 20 based on any research? We need about 11k affordable units. So what's the plan to build 100,000 housing units quickly?

And that zoning reform is, for the most part, great. Until the part that we mandate something without paying or adding relief. Inclusionary zoning doesn't fix what is exclusionary about exclusionary zoning.

Yeah, building new housing does nothing to help the most vulnerable.

Pittsburgh is for everyone...as long as you lived here for an indeterminate amount of time.

The next phase of Bedford Dwellings moves forward

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That could be 1 factor but I think the much larger factor is that IZ makes smaller developments much harder to pencil financially. This is the conclusion of other IZ studies. We obviously don't have enough data to see if that's the case in Pittsburgh.

Also, I did not work on the study that was released.

I'm confused as to why the firms size should be included?

As for your project taking 5 years, that's why we need zoning and permitting reform. For financing, the city should help pay for affordable units instead of the other renters of the building.

Are you saying IZ makes it easier for smaller developers? I would not think that would be the case because of the scale needed to overcome the financial setback.

You can't blame the pandemic when projects in similar neighborhoods were completed. And this just something local to Pittsburgh, it's seen across the nation.

I disagree. People don't live in hypothetical, not completed buildings.

No. Because it's not built yet. Not every project that gets approved gets completed.

Rendering of the approved building at 3812 Foster Street.

Year In Review: 3812 Foster Street in Lawrenceville will be redeveloped into a 334-unit apartment building with 10% affordable units.

The Planning Commission approved the project on June 25th.

That's interesting. Try this link
www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/n...

In my opinion, there should be no limit to housing, office, or mixed use building height next to a T or East Busway Stop.

A quote from the linked article

90 feet tall is not egregiously tall next to a rapid bus line. I could not disagree with the commissioner more.

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