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The U. S. Steel Community Field at Hazelwood Green was officially completed, named and celebrated with a ribbon-cutting on April 22. Hazelwood Cobras players participated in a clinic with top NFL draft prospects and Special Olympics athletes after the ceremony. Charley Kiss of McKeesport is the facility’s new general manager on behalf of The Sports Facilities Companies. The Sports Facilities Companies is a Florida-based athletic facility operations contractor.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit has proposed a lite version of the complete overhaul it proposed in 2024. The “Bus Line Refresh” proposes boosting service to popular routes and adding connections between Allegheny County communities. This update would cut 13 routes but add nine new ones. The transit authority was previously known as Port Authority Transit and is now often called PRT.

The April 14 Greater Hazelwood community meeting took place at the Spartan Center to accommodate more people. A crowd of about 40 people showed up, plus about 20 more online. They came to hear about Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s most recent proposal and the revived effort to create a comprehensive plan for the city.

Lytle Café at 5040 Lytle St. is now for sale, listed for $325,000. The sale comes with a liquor license, entertainment license, Sunday sales permit and all equipment. The two-level apartment upstairs has three bedrooms and one bathroom.

If you’ve traveled along Second Avenue recently, you may have noticed major changes on Hazelwood Green, across from the Saline/Greenfield/Irvine/Second Avenue intersection and railroad trestle. The imposing wall between Second Avenue and Hazelwood Green is gone. Instead, you can see the beginnings of two paths crisscrossing each other in a grassy field. A bench is visible closer to the river. The sight made me curious enough to ask around to get the scoop.

It’s not a new idea, but it might be one whose time has come. The Bus Line Refresh is an opportunity to push for a connection that transit advocates and Hazelwoodians have been requesting for years, according to Pittsburghers for Public Transit Executive Director Laura Wiens.