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First multi-family development planned for Hazelwood Green | The Homepage
Also: Upgrades planned for Lewis Park By Juliet Martinez, managing editor The well-attended Hazelwood Initiative monthly hybrid meeting...
Jan 2, 20244 min read
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Lots to celebrate as we ring in 2024 | The Homepage
By Sonya Tilghman, executive director of Hazelwood Initiative Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe 2023 is already over. It flew by!...
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Planting trees so others can have shade
How the Gladstone School redevelopment started, and why Hazelwood Initiative became focused on affordable housing A first-person essay by...
Jan 2, 20245 min read
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CMU starts building Hazelwood Green robotics center; Steelers announce sports complex | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez, managing editor The Pittsburgh Steelers and a bunch of robots are coming to Hazelwood in 2025. Carnegie Mellon...
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Second Ave. Rite Aid closes | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez, managing editor Photo 1: Staff of the Second Avenue Rite Aid on Dec. 4, from left: Pete Turrill (certified pharmacy...
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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Hazelwood Green workforce efforts must clear roadblocks to living-wage careers | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez, managing editor Indea Brimage always saw herself working in a medical setting. “Every time I go to the emergency room...
Dec 1, 20236 min read
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Hopes are high for Second Ave. cooperative grocery store | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez The team working on developing a grocery store on the 4800 block of Second Avenue in Hazelwood has expanded to include...
Nov 1, 20233 min read
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Got overheated urban areas? Plant trees | The Homepage
By Betul Tuncer If you walked the streets of Pittsburgh in early October, you may have sweated a bit. While climate change has raised...
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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New affordable homes to be built on Flowers Ave. | The Homepage
Also: Why clean rivers mean thriving communities By Juliet Martinez The Sept. 12 community meeting was well attended online and in...
Oct 1, 20234 min read
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Equity One-Stop Shop affordable rental unit for ‘marginalized and disenfranchised’ | The Homepage
By James Paul Deep in Hazelwood, a sleepy house came alive on Sept. 14. Music floated into the long-abandoned halls and children...
Sep 29, 20234 min read
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What makes a co-op a co-op? Cooperative principles for a democratic economy | The Homepage
By Jeff Jaeger and Ron Gaydos Editor’s note: Regular readers of The Homepage may know that a coalition of Hazelwood community groups is...
Sep 1, 20234 min read
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Stay safe and cool on hot days | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez Coach James Cole looks out for his summer day campers in the hot weather as a matter of course. “If it’s too hot, we...
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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Behind the scenes at Hazelwood Initiative | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez We have a lot of important news in this Homepage issue, like an update on the Equity One-Stop Shop Resource Center...
Jul 1, 20232 min read
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Community meeting: CMU, Pitt planning ultra-high-tech facilities for Hazelwood Green | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez The well-attended June 13 hybrid community meeting introduced dazzling prospects of a technological future on...
Jul 1, 20234 min read
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Hazelwood native creates short film series around self-help themes | The Homepage
By Juliet Martinez Filmmaker Jibril Washington’s new short film collection explores personal growth through the stories of three...
Jul 1, 20231 min read
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Grief Bowls project finds beauty, healing in cracks and broken pieces | The Homepage
By Michael Machosky A bowl without a bottom is, well, a bit strange. But for Lisa Riehl -- painting shards of a broken ceramic bowl at...
Jun 1, 20233 min read
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Download the Hazelwood Initiative Affordable Housing Resource Guide here!
Affordable housing and Hazelwood's next chapter By Dave Brewton In some ways, Hazelwood's story is a lot like the stories of other Rust...
May 31, 20232 min read
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A profile of Andrea Coleman | The Homepage
By Ronald B. Saunders In March, the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie branch of the Association for the study of African American Life and History...
May 1, 20232 min read
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Luncheon honors crime victims and comforts surviving family members | The Homepage
By Juanita Godfrey It is His will that every need be supplied You are important to me I need you to survive * On April 1, the Monongahela...
May 1, 20233 min read
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Hazelwood nursery brings native plants to modern gardens | The Homepage
Crystal Armagost Volchko is on a mission to help create a patchwork of native habitat for bees, butterflies and birds in Pittsburgh yards.
May 1, 20235 min read
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