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
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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.
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Pittsburgh’s Black community is shrinking and some who remain in the city say they are fed up with generations of neglect by city officials, systematic racism and development projects that have caused departures.
Between 2014 and 2018, U.S. Census data shows, Pittsburgh’s Black population dropped by about 10% or 7,000 people.
On Wednesday, some of more than three dozen speakers at a city council hearing put voices, faces and names beside those numbers. During their allotted three minutes, they spoke, some offering support from civic organizations and other groups in the city. Even more might have talked if it weren’t for technological glitches during the virtual meeting.
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