Bob Bauder stories, Page 8

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he wasn’t impressed with the design for a 21-story office tower that New York-based JMC Holdings has planned for the site of a cold storage warehouse in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Peduto said the company would have to come up with a design more in line...

Pittsburgh is in line for a better interest rate on a $50 million capital improvement bond it intends to issue next month after Fitch Ratings upgraded the city’s bond rating Monday to positive, Mayor Bill Peduto said. It had been rated as stable. “We had gotten up to stable, and...

Pittsburgh, which has more than its share of pet alligators roaming loose, is moving to ban the sale and ownership of the reptiles in the city. City Councilman Bruce Kraus on Tuesday introduced a bill that would repeal an ordinance passed by council late last year that permitted but regulated...

Penn Hills native James Zanella said he’s not overly concerned — yet — about living roughly 40 miles away from the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak. What worries him most is that Italian police have locked down 10 towns in the Lombardy region, which borders the Trentino region. Zanella lives...

People with disabilities or mental health problems can access support organizations and attend informational seminars during a summit in March at Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Admission to the Disability and Mental Health Summit on March 3 is free. It runs from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and features...

Pittsburgh should borrow $60 million to help solve the city’s affordable housing problem, two city councilmen suggested Wednesday. Councilmen R. Daniel Lavelle of the Hill District and Ricky Burgess of North Point Breeze said the $10 million Pittsburgh sets aside each year for an affordable housing fund could be used...

Pittsburgh would pay a city firefighter $70,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the city violated the Americans with Disabilities Act in 2016 by restricting his duties after he suffered a head injury while responding to a fire call. City Council introduced a resolution Tuesday that would authorize a settlement of...

Travelers this spring will start seeing the prep work for a three-year, $1.1 billion construction project this summer that will build a new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport. Airport visitors will begin to see construction trailers and new walls and fencing built to isolate the construction area from existing facilities,...

Pittsburgh will close one lane of Centre Avenue between Morewood Avenue and Cypress near UPMC’s Shadyside Hospital starting on Friday and continuing through Monday evening, according to the city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. The closure is needed to put up a tower crane for a development project. Port Authority...

Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner on Thursday pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace during a confrontation last year with police in a Detroit hotel. In a plea agreement, Wagner had a felony count of obstruction reduced to disturbing the peace. She then pleaded no contest to that lesser charge...

Two Pittsburgh City Council members reached out to Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday seeking financial and staff contributions for their efforts to combat racism in the city. R. Daniel Lavelle and Ricky Burgess, council’s two black representatives, asked for money along with faculty, staff and student participation in the city’s...

The Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh’s Strip District continues to accumulate properties on Penn Avenue for a future expansion that could include a history-themed hotel, according to its top official. Andy Masich, the center’s president and CEO, said the organization in December purchased the former Sushi Kim Korean...

Pittsburgh would use a plan created by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy as a template for spending revenue generated by the city’s controversial parks tax under a resolution introduced in city council Tuesday. Two council members — Anthony Coghill and Deb Gross — who opposed the tax, said the resolution sponsored...

Pittsburgh last month paid more than $163,000 to a former police officer who was reinstated with back pay after being fired three years ago in connection with an alleged road rage incident. The officer, however, hasn’t returned to work, and an ongoing legal imbroglio is far from over. The chain...

The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation is accepting applications for its annual scholarship program. Students of Hispanic ancestry living in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Westmoreland or Washington county can apply through the chamber website or or via e-mail at scholarships@pmahcc.org. The application deadline is April 30....

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority on Monday announced that it is increasing its income eligibility limit for customers to qualify for free replacement of lead water lines. PWSA customers with lead water lines who earn no more than 300% of federal poverty level each year — $78,600 for a...

A weekly farmers market in Pittsburgh’s Hill District is settling into its new location in the neighborhood. The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank moved its Green Grocer’s Hill District stop to outside a shuttered Shop ‘n Save at Centre Heldman Plaza along Centre Avenue at the beginning of the month...

A Ross Township real estate investment and development firm Friday closed on the purchase of a building previously occupied by Verizon at the RIDC Park in Marshall Township, according to a company partner. FourPenn Partners LLC purchased the building at 200 Allegheny Drive for $3.45 million from the Rubinoff family...

Pittsburgh would expand its bike lane network by more than 150 miles over the next decade under a draft plan released Thursday by the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. The plan calls for every home in the city to be within one-quarter mile of the network that would link the...

A viewing for Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s mother is set for Sunday at the William Slater II Funeral Home in Scott Township. Eva Maria (Zarroli) Peduto was 92 and died peacefully early Wednesday at her home in Scott, according to an online obituary. Viewing hours are 2 p.m. to 4...