It adds up for them: Accounting firm moving to FNB Financial Center at former Civic Arena site

Another Downtown firm is headed to the new 26-story office tower being built at the former Civic Arena site.

BDO USA, an accounting and advisory company, will move its Pittsburgh office from the Heinz 57 Center at Sixth Avenue and Smithfield Street to FNB Financial Center, where it will occupy the 18th floor starting in summer 2025.

It will join three other companies that have signed leases to take space in the building — anchor tenant First National Bank, the Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman law firm and GH Advertising...Read More

Pennsylvania House approves malls-to-apartments tax abatement

HARRISBURG — Some of Pennsylvania’s shopping malls may become mixed-use housing in the future.

Last week, the House passed House Bill 1799, which would offer tax credits and abatements, along with creating a Mixed-Use Redevelopment Advisory Committee, to transform unused and closing malls into housing, among other things.

Proposed by Rep. Josh Siegel, D-Allentown, the bill is part of an effort to make it easier to build much-needed housing across the commonwealth. It could also help turn a liability into an asset...Read More

Rite Aid to close another Downtown Pittsburgh store

Another Downtown Rite Aid store is closing as the Philadelphia company continues to restructure after filing for bankruptcy last October.

The Rite Aid location at 100 Forbes Avenue will shut down June 13, the company confirmed Tuesday. The pharmacy will close about five weeks before that on May 7.

In a statement, Rite Aid said that it “regularly assesses its retail footprint to ensure we are operating efficiently while meeting the needs of our customers, communities, associates and overall business.”...Read More

Aldi poised to replace Shop'n Save store at Lawrenceville Shopping Center

A grocery store change over is taking place in the 10th Ward of Lawrenceville.

The neighborhood's long-time Shop'n Save store is set to close, with the last day of operation expected to be May 13.

At the same time, media relations for Aldi has confirmed that the limited assortment grocery store is slated to open a new store at the address later this year, one of four stores the company is working to open in 2024 in western Pennsylvania...Read More

New restaurant Amboy coming to a gateway location of the East Ohio business district on the North Side

Typically, the phrase "farm to table" alludes to a restaurant's menu and its approach emphasizing local foods.

For Rafael Vencio, the phrase right now most closely describes his current entrepreneurial shift, in which he's moving from operating a startup farm, at the Hilltop Urban Farm, where he sold various unique kinds of produce at farmers markets around the city. Now he's looking to open a restaurant.



Vencio, a native of the Philippines who moved to the region when his father worked at Geneva College, is keeping the same name for the restaurant as he did for the farmers market stand, Amboy, the basic farm-to-table approach of which he hopes to return to soon as he works to get his new restaurant up and running...Read More