Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG)

There will be a Citywide Public Safety Meeting Monday April 25, 2011 from 6 PM to 9 PM at Church of the Risen Lord, 3250 California Avenue in the Northside.

Light dinner and refreshments will be provided. For further information please click here.

Each spring, the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG) hosts an Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony to celebrate the hard work of our membership and thank our partners for their continued commitment to neighborhoods. Our May 2010 reception at the August Wilson Center attracted more than 270 community leaders and raised substantial funds for neighborhood initiatives. Building on the Annual Meeting, this year, PCRG has partnered with the Urban Land Institute to host the First Annual Community Development Summit on May 25, 2011 at the Omni William Penn Hotel.

See http://www.pcrg.org/summit2011 for more details.

Make your voice heard on transit!!! Please fill out the survey!

Last Saturday, 300 citizens came together to discuss local government issues as part of a Deliberative Democracy Poll. The results will be shared with public officials later this year. If you were not one of the randomly selected, it does not mean we don’t value your opinions. In fact, we are offering you the opport…unity to participate on-line. Please take the poll and let your voice be heard! How should local government serve you? Your community?

Which is better (or, perhaps, less bad)? Selling parking assets to the Parking Authority? Privatization? Or just letting the State take over our pension?

“Saying a mayoral plan to lease parking garages and meters would raise rates too high and cede too much control, Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb today outlined an alternative means of avoiding state takeover of the city’s pension fund.

Mr. Lamb suggested that the Pittsburgh Parking Authority could buy, from the city, the parking meters, Mellon Square Garage, and several surface lots the city owns. His proposed purchase price, $150 million, would go into the city’s ailing pension fund.”

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10272/1091237-100.stm#ixzz11gVqBcfu

Construction of five townhomes near the doughboy statue in Lawrenceville is poised to move forward with Pittsburgh City Council’s blessing.

Council last week authorized the city Urban Redevelopment Authority to sell five parcels in the 3400 block of Butler Street to Central Real Estate Holdings LLC for $109,750.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10271/1090797-53.stm#ixzz11gVVpQby

Check out this great article on the work that Pennsylvania State Legislators and City Officials are doing to combat vacancy in our neighborhoods!

Mayor releases budget with no major cuts or lay-offs, includes anticipated parking lease revenue.

…PASSED Senate Appropriations!! Major milestone. Final legislative session is short. Get involved:

Weigh in on the City’s Comprehensive Plan Open Spaces chapter!