Madaleine Rubin

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Madaleine Rubin

Pittsburgh City Council members are going back to the drawing board to reach a compromise on a controversial policy intended to increase the city’s affordable housing stock. Council on Wednesday held a public hearing on a proposal that would let individual neighborhoods decide whether to opt into inclusionary zoning. The policy requires that portions of new housing developments be affordable for low-income residents.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Madaleine Rubin |Adam Babetski |Joe Lister |Jimmy Cloutier

After years of planning, months of construction, and seven rounds of golf, the U.S. Open packed up its operations at Oakmont Country Club. Putting the event together required thousands of volunteers, hundreds of public safety officials and leaders from Pittsburgh, Plum and Oakmont. Fighting through poor weather during the championship rounds, the tournament’s reach encompassed far beyond Oakmont residents and businesses — not all of whom enjoyed the tournament’s impact.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Madaleine Rubin

The global financial services firm Wilshire is swapping its Downtown office for a new lease in the Strip District — the latest in a series of companies to downsize and seek high-quality office space outside the Golden Triangle.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Madaleine Rubin

A former boiler plant that once powered Downtown could soon add to the city’s stock of affordable housing. The Pittsburgh Planning Commission on Tuesday heard plans to convert the old Phipps Power Plant at 120 Cecil Pl. into a new, 97-unit residential tower, with the majority of units designated affordable for residents earning between 20% and 80% of the area’s median income.

1 week ago | post-gazette.com | Madaleine Rubin |Jimmy Cloutier

Come January, a new mayor will take office and inherit a decades-old puzzle with far-reaching implications for the future of a city on the brink of financial crisis. Pittsburgh’s sprawling networks of hospitals and universities — institutions that redefined the region and rescued it from the economic collapse of heavy industry years ago — have amassed enormous real estate holdings with some of the most valuable properties in the city.