Karen Dobrzynski takes a quick look out the front window of her Federal Street hot dog shop as she prepares lunch for a stream of customers. Across the street from Nana's New York Hot Dogs with windows boarded, stands a vacant building. At the corner, white paint peels from the brick facade of 4 W. North Avenue. Graffiti, visible from Nana's New York Hot Dogs, marks the side of nearby buildings... Read More.

Construction on a four-story apartment and office building is expected to start in New Kensington later this year.

The 36-unit Pioneer Apartments will be built on a parking lot between 10th and 11th Streets, and between Fourth Avenue and Cherry Alley... Read More.

Another historic Fort Pitt Boulevard property dating to the 1800s when the Monongahela Wharf was a prime port for river traffic and commerce has hit the market.

The Fort Pitt Office Building — three separate structures at 227, 231, and 235 Fort Pitt Boulevard merged into one property — is being offered for sale with an asking price of $6.75 million. .. Read More.

The former Phoenix at Buffalo Valley Golf Course in Freeport soon could be home to 300 new residences.

Developer Gary Nese and Sean Naylor, engineer with Red Swing Group of Monroeville, said the residences would be developed on 241 acres at the former golf course along Route 128. Nese said the northernmost area of the site will be developed first — 150 lots on about 150 acres. Nese said the development is complicated by having to avoid natural gas and electrical lines on the property... Read More.

Allegheny Health Network is looking to build one of its four new neighborhood hospitals in McCandless, a spokesman said Tuesday.

McCandless Council voted Monday night to consider amending its zoning law to allow the health network to be build a small-format hospital in McCandless Crossing shopping center at the intersection of McKnight Road and Duncan Avenue... Read More.

A Chicago real estate investment firm has started a $10 million project in Canonsburg.

Jeff Brown, CEO of T2 Capital Management, said his company last month purchased the former Fort Pitt Bridge Works building at 135 Meadow Lane, in the Fort Pitt Industrial Park. Brown said construction already has begun at the 130,583-square-foot building, which will soon be known as the Canonsburg Distribution Center... Read More.

One of the Strip District’s next significant redevelopment projects is ready to begin pursuing public approvals.

A firm called 225 Smallman Associates LP, which is affiliated with Rugby Realty Co., is scheduled to appear before the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustments on May 10, seeking a special exception for building height for their proposal at 2200 Smallman Street, according to agenda documents. .. Read More.

Biotech, self-driving cars, and robotics? Pittsburgh, the Steel Belt city, is the best-kept secret east of Silicon Valley.

Startup neighborhoods.
The old factories and warehouses dotting the Alle­gheny River make up Robotics Row, where Edge Case Research--which, among other things, tests self-driving-car soft­­ware--works out of 19th-century stables... Read More.

St. Barnabas Health System is expanding its presence in Beaver County.

St. Barnabas Land Trust, a subsidiary of the Richland-based health system, has bought 175-acres of property on Dutch Ridge Road in Brighton Township, according to a news release. The site was formerly the home of engineering firm Michael Baker International . .. Read More.
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