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Manchester to feature new residential centerpiece
Category: Metro Written by Rebecca Nuttall - Courier Staff Writer
Construction will soon commence on a 31-home community in the Manchester neighborhood of the North Side. The Columbus Square development will see its first five homes completed sometime during the summer.
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| THE MANCHESTER TEAM —Front: Betty Jane, left, and Arthur Ralph. Standing, from left: Earl Coleman, Virginia Barnes, Linda Nelson, Brenda Moye, Stanley Lowe and Jerome Jackson.
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“The conversion of a former Manchester industrial property to residential use is the result of a true public private partnership,” said Mark Schneider, a principal project developer for Fourth River Development. “Funding secured from the (Urban Redevelopment Authority), the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County’s Community Infrastructure Tourism Fund and the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, together with PNC Bank’s financing of a model unity, enabled Columbus Square to move to the construction stage.”
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Lack of work concerns some Black carpenters
Category: Metro Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer
When Eric Woodard read in the New Pittsburgh Courier about apprentice carpenter Alexandra Gilmore telling the crowd at a recent union trades job summit that she went to seven job sites and couldn’t get hired at any, he wasn’t surprised.
During times in his 30 years as a journeyman carpenter for Local 165, Woodard has had to leave the state to find work because for a number of reasons, Blacks are not getting enough of the available union work, he said.
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| PASSING IT ON—Carpenters’ Union Business Agent Harold “Mac” McDonald with first-year apprentice Tyrone McCray pose after McCray and classmates built and dismantled a house inside the Union’s new training facility on Ridge Road.
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Penn State University has appointed Cynthia Baldwin as first general counsel
Category: Metro Written by Kathleen Yocum
Baldwin, a partner in the Pittsburgh office of Philadelphia law firm Duane Morris LLP, will build a legal counsel’s office within Penn State. She is a member of Penn State’s board of trustees and previously served as its chairwoman.
Baldwin joined Duane Morris in early 2008 after retiring from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where she served from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, Baldwin was a judge in various divisions of the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.
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Speak Out...What is your reaction to how the city has handled the snow?
Category: Metro Written by Courier Newsroom
The recent snowstorm has crippled the city, so we asked Pittsburghers their reactions to it and here’s what you had to say.
“A lot of people bashed the administration for not handling things. Hindsight is 20/20, but the reality is the last administration that had to deal with something like this probably was Tom Murphy. The fact that you actually see bulldozers helping out should say that we’re under staffed in that arena.”
Justin Strong
General manager
East Liberty
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Justin Strong, Toni Polite, Chyna Bailey
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Community Calendar
Category: Metro Written by Courier Newsroom
Census symposium
FEB. 25—The University of Pittsburgh will host a Census Symposium at the University’s University Club, 123 University Place, Oakland. There will be workshops on 2010 Census Jobs, How to Get More Involved and more. For more information, email Benita James at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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