A year after developing a program to encourage transit-oriented development near its facilities, Port Authority is using the concept as part of redesigning the Negley Station along the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway.

The agency’s preliminary plans include redeveloping the station to improve safety and access, ideas to build on authority property beside it and suggestions for the neighborhood around it. The site, at the end of Summerlea Street in Shadyside, also would be the first project in the agency’s station improvement program. Read More.

UPMC may be headed to Station Square. But that might not be the only big change in store for the longtime South Side entertainment, office and retail complex on the banks of the Monongahela River.

Owner Forest City Realty Trust is planning to add another half-dozen restaurants as part of major renovations to the Freight House Shops, Commerce Court and Bessemer Court buildings that make up the complex... Read More.

Almono may be at the top of the list but it is by no means the only site under consideration by Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials in their quest to land Amazon’s second headquarters.

Another potential site emerged Monday — 15 acres of riverfront industrial property on the North Side near Rivers Casino targeted for redevelopment by Millcraft Investments... Read More.

STRIP DISTRICT (KDKA) — There are new self-driving cars cruising city streets, and soon the company developing them will be building a new world headquarters in the Strip District... Read More.

Doors Open Pittsburgh is planning its second event in October, expanding this year to include the North Side and the Strip District. 

Curious, or "nebby," participants with an interest in the city's history will have the chance to peer into sites not always accessible. Read More.

Leaders of the bid to bring Amazon’s proposed second headquarters to Pittsburgh are calling on developers to put their best sites forward.

Dubbed Amazon HQ2 Team Pittsburgh, the regional partnership assembled to lure the Seattle-based e-commerce giant issued a request for expressions of interest Thursday seeking potential sites for the massive headquarters.... Read More.

A 25,000 square-foot shopping center in Moon Township was announced Tuesday by Synergy Real Estate Corp.,according to the Beaver County Times.

The project, to be known as University Center, will likely break ground later this year at the intersection of University Boulevard and Interstate 376 Business Loop... Read More.

UPMC has dropped its plan to build a 90-bed hospital in South Fayette and will start over in its search for a place to build an acute care hospital in the South Hills.

UPMC spokeswoman Gloria Kreps said Thursday that the health system had withdrawn plans to build the $211.2 million hospital in South Fayette, a plan that township commissioners approved in August. The change comes after UPMC had earlier abandoned plans to build a hospital in Pleasant Hills.... Read More.

The 900 block of Liberty Avenue downtown in getting a makeover.

Renovations started Monday to add a temporary curb extension, bus lane and parking lane to the stretch. 

A bus platform will be added by the end of the week, and adjustments will also include landscaping and lighting to be added in coming months.... Read More.
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