Bob Bauder stories, Page 21

Efforts to save and redevelop the Strip District’s iconic Produce Terminal stretch back decades. The long, low building stretching along Smallman Street was the heart of the wholesale business at the center of the thriving Pittsburgh neighborhood in the 1920s when it was built. The city bought the building in...

Gina Pelusi of Upper St. Clair lost her mother, Ruth Ann, about five years ago to a man who shot her after she answered a knock on her door at her Virginia home. Valerie Dixon of East Liberty lost her son, Robert, in 2001 to a man who shot him...

Pittsburgh and its water authority are poised to end a relationship that provided millions of gallons of free water to city entities each year, supplied the city with an annual payment of more than $7 million and required the authority to subsidize water rates for thousands of residents. The agreement,...

The University of Pittsburgh is offering housing in a residence hall to students displaced Sunday after a fire in a parking garage at the SkyVue Apartments in Oakland. Pitt spokesman Kevin Zwick said the university opened a residence hall to students who have nowhere to stay and advises them to...

Two Republican candidates for Allegheny County offices pulled off successful primary write-in campaigns to challenge Controller Chelsa Wagner and County Councilman John Palmiere, both Democrats, in the November election, according to the county elections office. Brooke Nadonley, 42, of Mt. Washington received 1,887 write-in votes in her campaign for county...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto wants city pension fund overseers to pull investments from companies dealing in fossil fuels, firearms and for-profit prisons, a strategy financial experts say could weaken the funds and result in lower annual returns. Peduto last week penned a letter to the Comprehensive Municipal Trust Fund board...

Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday authorized acceptance of a grant that has drawn criticism from some residents over the use self-driving vehicles in the city. The $410,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is aimed at educating residents about autonomous vehicles. Residents and local activists lined...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Tuesday evening will honor the CEO of Coraopolis-based Dick’s Sporting Goods with a leadership award for promoting firearms safety. Peduto and Farooq Kathwari, CEO of Ethan Allen, will present Edward Stack with a Maverick in Leadership Award from the Yale Mayors College and CEO Summit....

Pittsburgh is poised to christen new facilities at the Bob O’Connor Golf Course in Schenley Park after Latrobe golf legend Arnold Palmer. Pittsburgh Councilman Corey O’Connor, son of the late mayor for whom the course is named, introduced a resolution Tuesday that would name the clubhouse and learning center after...

Pittsburgh boasts the region’s smartest garbage cans. The city has more than 1,000 “smart” trash cans equipped with sensors to gauge garbage volume and send a wireless signal to the city’s Department of Public Works when they’re full. Pittsburgh hopes the new trash cans will cut in half the amount...

The Pittsburgh Ballet Theater is seeking to renew a lease on Strip District property dubbed Denny Park that was donated to Pittsburgh nearly 150 years ago to create a public square. City Council and the Mayor’s Office are now wrangling over the lease, which expires in 2025 and could be...

Pittsburgh is doing $80,000 worth of work at the intersection of Woodruff and Merrimac streets in Mt. Washington after finding that most drivers speed along the streets. The city’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure collected traffic speed and volume data in 2018 and found that 94% of drivers on Woodruff...

Nicole Santella wasn’t impressed when her husband first showed her the rundown Yingling mansion in Wilkinsburg. The 30-plus room house on Wood Street had served over the years as Wilkinsburg’s hospital, a convalescent home and a personal care facility. It was abandoned for two years and a wreck when Santella...

NASA on Friday announced a $79.5 million contract with a Pittsburgh-based company to deliver payloads of scientific and high-tech research equipment to the moon in 2021. Astrobotic Technology Inc., founded a decade ago out of Carnegie Mellon University and headquartered at 25th and Liberty in the Strip District, will deliver...

Natalie Perko needed help with a down payment and closing costs to afford her dream home in Pittsburgh’s Brighton Heights neighborhood. She found it through the Pittsburgh Housing Opportunity Fund, a $10 million pot of money the city sets aside each year to help low-wage earners afford housing within city...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday temporarily waived Allegheny County’s summer fuel requirement — which typically results in higher prices at the pump — because of a damaged pipeline supplying Western Pennsylvania. The EPA is close to repealing the rule requiring a summer gasoline blend but agreed to waive...

The Port Authority of Allegheny County is poised to offer a mobile ticketing application that would allow riders to pay fares through smart phones. Under the system, customers could purchase a ticket or pass using a credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay through their phone and then immediately use...

Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a plan for distributing $10 million in 2019 from an affordable housing fund. The Urban Redevelopment Authority, which administers the fund, has recommended that the money be divided into six programs this year, including rental assistance, subsidies to help with a...

Pittsburgh City Council will likely authorize acceptance of a $410,000 grant aimed at educating residents on the use of autonomous vehicles in the city, but members plan to provide amendments for how that should be done. Council in a preliminary vote Wednesday agreed to accept the money disbursed over three...

Pittsburgh’s Hilltop Urban Farm is hosting free summer camps in 2019 where kids can learn about nutrition, cooking, growing food, local food systems and Western Pennsylvania ecology. Children from the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of St. Clair, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Carrick, Allentown, South Side Slopes, Knoxville, Beltzhoover, Mt. Washington, and Bon Air...

Pittsburgh has collaborated with the owners of a Stanwix Street building to transform nine stories of the facade into a virtual who’s who of famous Pittsburghers. The public art piece dubbed “We Are Pittsburgh” consists of 20 banners with the pixelated images of well known personalities such as Andrew Carnegie,...

Drivers should expect traffic delays along Broadway Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Beechview neighborhood starting on Wednesday while a construction crew replaces concrete slabs and curbs, according to the Mayor’s Office. A crew from Sharpsburg-based Cilenti Construction Co. will be working from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the...

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority estimates it will take another three weeks to fix a burst water main and complete street restoration on Smallman Street in the city’s Strip District. Smallman Street will remain closed between 14th and 17th streets while work is ongoing, PWSA officials said Friday. A...

Five Pittsburgh residents lined up Thursday in opposition to the Steelers’ request to create a sign in the end zone seating at Heinz Field, complaining it would detract from the city’s landmark hilltop vistas and architectural ambiance. Representatives of PSSI Stadium LLC, a team affiliate, appeared before the Pittsburgh Zoning...