In a bold New Year’s Eve gambit, Mayor Ravenstahl’s veto was able to stymie City Council efforts to institute a “prevailing wage” law in Pittsburgh
The City development community is celebrating a big win today with the announcement that national retailer Target is going to set down roots in East
The Governor came to Pittsburgh this week bearing gifts from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) which is a capital budget that is for
By now we’ve heard that the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Budget (RACP) will fund a public policy center and a library for two of the Commonwealth’s
Just having written about the off ledger nature of the Redevelopment Capital Assistance Budget, how its debt ceiling has been raised often since the 1990s,
We’ve written about the Redevelopment Capital Assistance Program (RCAP) before: it is one of many arrows in the state’s quiver aimed at eliminating blight and
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: subsidies beget subsidies. Instead of doing what proponents of publicly-funded development believe will happen-that a publicly-funded anchor
Downtown Pittsburgh, September 24, 2010. The department store Saks Fifth Avenue has intimated that it needs help for renovation of its store, preferably from its
One of the agenda items that City Council had this past month was a petition from residents of East Liberty to establish a Neighborhood Improvement
If hosting the G-20 conference last fall was to tell the world Pittsburgh had changed-the spokesman for the region’s premier economic development agency said at
