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Pittsburgh Taxpayers’ Debt Load Getting Lighter

In 2011, the debt per capita in Pittsburgh was $1,901, based on the Census count of 306,000 and $581.8 million in general obligation debt of the City. A decade earlier the average resident carried a much heavier debt load of $2,651. Both the debt and the City’s population were higher in 2001 but debt has fallen faster than population in the intervening years resulting in the per capita debt drop.

Christopher Wendt April 18, 2013

Is Council Serious About Shutting Down the Parking Authority?

Members of Pittsburgh City Council have expressed frustration with the operations of the Public Parking Authority. Some have mentioned the possibility of dissolving the Authority.

Christopher Wendt July 20, 2011

Parking Employees Receive a Guarantee

In announcing that not one, but two, law firms will help guide the City is leasing its garages, lots, and meters in order to find

Christopher Wendt January 21, 2010

Authority Garages: How Much Impact?

For some time we have heard that the presence of Parking Authority garages-publicly owned and exempt from taxation-act as a check on the privately-owned garages

Christopher Wendt February 11, 2010

Garage Privatization in Pittsburgh Should Remain an Option

With City Council’s final vote and the Mayor’s pronouncement that it is “time to move on” to other issues, the stage appears to be set

Christopher Wendt October 20, 2010

Will Leased Parking Garages be a Tax Shelter?

Pittsburgh is contemplating a lease of its publicly owned parking to the high bidder for a sum of $452 million. The lease of nearly 18,000

Christopher Wendt October 13, 2010

Lease Components Coalescing?

Here is a summary of the recommendations of an advisory task force on the proposed parking lease: The prospective lease holder would not be constrained

Christopher Wendt February 23, 2010

The Parking Lease: What’s Included?

The City will arrive at a critical juncture in the next ten days: that because parties interested in pursuing a lease of the City’s parking

Christopher Wendt March 9, 2010

Legal Net Ensnares Alternate Garage Plan

This a key week for the debate over how the City will proceed with its garage plan: City Council is expected to vote today on

Christopher Wendt March 16, 2010

Pool of Parking Bidders Could Shrink

By this past Friday parties interested in the proposal to lease parking garages, lots, and meters had to submit a response to an RFQ. Today’s

Christopher Wendt March 22, 2010

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