PITTSBURGH —Allegheny Health Network has debuted a first-of-its-kind program that will help patients who are food insecure.

The Healthy Food Center, which some have referred to as a “Food Farmacy,” is opening at West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield... Read More.

When the team behind Community Forge came together in 2016, they envisioned a cooperative social enterprise that would do important things: It would offer a platform for community service, education and civic action, and also play a key role in revitalizing an economically distressed neighborhood. Community members would have a say in everything, from the programming to the appearance of the physical space.

This month, that space — a new community center serving the people of Wilkinsburg — became a reality... Read More.

The Bon-Ton department store chain — which has locations at Westmoreland Mall, Indiana Mall, Uniontown Mall, Washington Crown Center and the Johnstown Galleria — is going the way of other brick-and-mortar outlets that have shut their doors.

Two large liquidators acquired Bon-Ton Stores Inc. of Milwaukee in a bankruptcy court auction this week. Bon-Ton failed to find a buyer to continue operating its 260 stores in 24 states. Once the asset sale is completed, the stores will close within 12 weeks, CNBC reported. .. Read More.

One of Downtown’s oldest and most ornate skyscrapers could be the site of the city’s latest hotel development.

New Orleans-based HRI Properties has plans to convert the 18-story Arrott Building at 401 Wood St. into a boutique hotel.

HRI, under the name Urban Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel Company LLC, acquired the real estate from Batra Hospitality Group Inc. last September, according to Allegheny County real estate records... Read More.

McKnight Realty Partners is planning to convert a historic South Shore warehouse into a $110 million office and retail complex with an elevated green space that will permit public access from East Carson Street to the Monongahela River.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and local dignitaries joined McKnight officials Thursday at the former Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse and Transfer Co. just upriver from Station Square for a ceremonial groundbreaking... Read More.

The Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment has rejected Walnut Capital Partners request for a variance to add three stories and nearly 130,000 square feet to a second office building at its Bakery Square 2.0 master plan.

After the development company originally presented its plan to the ZBA in mid-February, the ZBA announced that it had rejected Walnut Capital’s variance requests at its regularly scheduled Thursday morning meeting.. Read More.

Carnegie Mellon University is partnering on a bid to make Pittsburgh International Airport “the smartest airport on the planet.”

The ultimate goal is to use sensors, apps and other smart technology to help travelers navigate their way with unprecedented ease — from finding a space in the parking lot to perhaps even getting an exact time to arrive at the security checkpoint. .. Read More.

After spending much of its April 12 meeting approving the creation of a Tax Increment Financing district to fund $24 million in redevelopment along Smallman Street in the Strip District, which was given tentative approval last month, the Urban Redevelopment Authority board moved on a number of affordable housing initiatives, and held another one until later.

The board postponed action on Ralph A. Falbo Inc.’s purchase of three former hospital buildings in the Hill District to renovate them into affordable senior housing units... Read More.
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