Robert E. O'Connor Jr. was an American politician who was the Mayor of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania from January 3,2006,until his death.
The David L. Lawrence Convention Center is a 1,500,000-square-foot (140,000 m2) convention,conference and exhibition building in downtown Pittsburgh in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is served by two exits on Interstate 579. The initial David L. Lawrence Convention Center was completed on the site on February 7,1981,but as part of a renewal plan the new,completely redesigned center was opened in 2003 and funded in conjunction with nearby Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park. It sits on the southern shoreline of the Allegheny River. It is the first LEED-certified convention center in North America and one of the first in the world. It is owned by the Sports &Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
SouthSide Works is an open-air retail,office,entertainment,and residential complex located on the South Side of the city of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,U.S. and just across the Monongahela River from the Pittsburgh Technology Center,the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The $300 million complex opened in stages between 2002 and 2004 and offers more than 34 acres (140,000 m2) of shops,offices,hotels and apartments,and has a new urbanist design. The site has over 330,000 square feet (30,000 m2) of specialty retail,restaurant,hotel,and apartment space. In addition,the site has 700,000 square feet (70,000 m2) of office space. The land is now owned by SomeraRoad Inc.,which has invested +$100M in updating the live-work-play district and added a dog park,sport court,and town square.
Jack E. Wagner is an American Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served as Pennsylvania Auditor General,and previously served in the State Senate and Pittsburgh City Council.
Luke Robert Ravenstahl is an American politician who served as the 59th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 2006 until 2014. A Democrat,he became the youngest mayor in Pittsburgh's history in September 2006 at the age of 26. He was among the youngest mayors of a major city in American history.
Michelle Madoff was a Canadian-born American municipal politician who served on the Pittsburgh City Council from 1978 to 1994.
The economy of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania is diversified,focused on services,medicine,higher education,tourism,banking,corporate headquarters and high technology. Once the center of the American steel industry,and still known as "The Steel City",today the city of Pittsburgh has no steel mills within its limits,though Pittsburgh-based companies such as US Steel,Ampco Pittsburgh and Allegheny Technologies own several working mills in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
James Ferlo was an American politician who was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the 38th Senatorial District from 2003–2015. His district consisted of parts of Allegheny,Westmoreland,and Armstrong counties. He did not run for reelection in 2014.
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development is a nonprofit,private sector leadership organization dedicated to economic development and quality of life issues for a 10-county region in southwestern Pennsylvania,United States centered around the largest city in the region,Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.
Frank J. Gigliotti was an American construction worker-turned-politician in Pennsylvania. He was convicted of bribery and extortion in 2000,and was released from prison in 2003.
Robert Wesley "Bob" Cranmer is a veteran,businessman,author,and politician,best known as a former Republican County Commissioner of Allegheny County,Pennsylvania,from 1996 to 2000. He is the author of the horror novel The Demon of Brownsville Road.
Tom Barnes was an American journalist,who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as Harrisburg Bureau Chief.
The mayoral election of 1997 in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday,November 4,1997. The incumbent mayor,Tom Murphy of the Democratic Party was running for a second straight term.
Michael M. Dawida is a former Allegheny County Commissioner,member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,and the Pennsylvania State Senate.
Shorty's Lunch is a Washington,Pennsylvania-based hot dog lunch counter. A "local landmark," While Shorty's Lunch was opened by “Shorty”Contorakes,it’s been owned by the Alexas family since the 1930s. It has two locations,including the main facility on West Chestnut Street in Washington,as well as in Canton. The main restaurant has old wooden booths,a dining counter,as well as a large storefront,showing the grill to pedestrians.
The relationship between the City of Washington,Pennsylvania,and Washington &Jefferson College spans over two centuries,dating to the founding of both the city and the college in the 1780s. The relationship between the town and college were strong enough that the citizens of Washington offered the college a $50,000 donation in 1869 in a successful attempt to lure the Washington &Jefferson College trustees to select Washington over nearby Canonsburg as the consolidated location of the college. The relationship was strained through the latter half of the 20th century,however,as the college pursued an expansion policy that clashed with the residential neighborhood. The college's frustrations grew after preservationists unsuccessfully attempted to pass laws prohibiting the college from demolishing certain buildings that were listed on the East Washington Historic District. Relations were so bad that residents and college officials engaged in a shouting match at a meeting. Local preservationists also unsuccessfully tried to block the demolition of Hays Hall,which had been condemned.
Summerset at Frick Park is a residential development located in the Squirrel Hill and Swisshelm Park neighborhoods within the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. This project is one of the nation's first brownfield sites to be remediated for residential purposes. The $250 million public-project began in 1997 and is the City of Pittsburgh's largest residential development since World War II. At completion,Summerset at Frick Park will have over 700 residences and its annual property tax revenue is anticipated to be in the range of $5.7 million to $6.3 million.
The Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania—known colloquially as the RIDC—is a privately funded non-profit serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area to focus on a regional approach to economic development primarily through managing and rehabilitating area research and business parks for modern tenants. The RIDC was formed on August 8,1955,as a non-profit corporation after area business,corporate,government and labor leaders supported a central agency responsible for developing and coordinating efforts to create new employment and economic diversity. As of March 2013 it is listed as the third largest commercial property manager in metropolitan Pittsburgh with 7,400,000 gross leasable square feet,behind only Oxford Development and CBRE Group while surpassing Jones Lang LaSalle.
Edward C. Gainey is an American politician who is the 61st mayor of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Previously,he served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 24th district. In November 2021,Gainey became the first African-American to become the mayor of Pittsburgh and assumed office on January 3,2022.
The Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce is a Pittsburgh area non-profit that promotes business and community development throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania.
