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Progress takes big step on Pittsburgh's North Side
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Jan 28Exhausting dramas such as "Ben Hur" and "Gone With the Wind" played at the Garden Theater in its mainstream days, but none could match that of the theater's own finale, a death throe that played out interminably and paralyzed investment around it. »
Nakama signed to lease for North Side restaurant
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Jan 27Nakama, a chain of Japanese restaurants that has a South Side site, will occupy the first floor of the former Masonic Hall on North Avenue in the Central Northside. »
Walkabout: Reassessment values create competition that's awfully unfair
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Jan 03A woman was walking on my street the other day taking pictures of houses. The first thing that crossed my mind was that she was loading the camera with ammunition for a fight against her new assessment. If things were normal, I would have assumed she j... »
Cultural center zoning approved for Central Northside
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Dec 23City of Asylum Pittsburgh has won approval by the Zoning Board of Adjustment for its proposed cultural center, Alphabet City, on Monterey Street in the Central Northside. »
Two-alarm fire out on Mexican War street
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Dec 16Five adults and three children in adjacent row houses escaped a two-alarm fire this morning on Monterey Street in the Central Northside. »
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North Side Redevelopment Well On Its Way
Out And About In The 'Burgh
Jan 29North Side's Garden TheaterThroughout the 1990s, one building after another on the Federal Street and North Avenue corridors of the Central Northside (Mexican War Streets) went dark because of the Garden Theater's then-status as a porn movie house. No... »
Nakama Becomes First Major Tenant of the North Side's Garden Theater Block
Digging Pitt
Jan 28Jean, was excited that the popular South Side, Japanese restaurant, Nakama would be opening up on the North Side. I was somewhat less, impressed since I assumed they would be locating in the semi dead zone around the stadiums that has hosted a revolvin... »
Three projects are filling vacant lots and empty storefronts in the Central Northside
Pop City
Jan 25In 2010 the Central Northside Neighborhood Committee (CNNC) released their vision for the community: to transform vacant lots and empty storefronts by filling them with thriving individuals, commerce, and families of all kinds. Three projects on Feder... »
Garden Theater redevelopment project to work with Nakama, Round Corner Cantia, and Firehouse Lounge
Pop City
Nov 16Restaurant and bar concepts similar to Nakama, Round Corner Cantina, and the Firehouse Lounge are in the works for the former Garden Theater block in the Central Northside. Developer Wayne Zukin, a principal with Zukin Realty, told an assembled URA boa... »