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"Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey and Walnut Capital reached a deal last week on proposed zoning for the developer's Oakland Crossings project, which will receive a vote later this month from the City Planning Commission." Read more

"Three months before former Mayor Bill Peduto left office, he proposed a zoning change for nearly 18 acres of Oakland specifically tailored to a plan by Walnut Capital, the landowner, that would allow the developer to construct buildings up to 180 feet high near UPMC Magee Womens Hospital." Read more

"Mayor Gainey announced today an agreement with the developer Walnut Capital on the proposed zoning for the Oakland Crossings project." Read more

"For John Tague, a 72-year-old power wheelchair user, equitable accessibility means something different to each member of the disabled community." Read more

"On Tuesday Mayor Ed Gainey again hit pause on Oakland Crossings, a proposed development project that could remake nearly 18 acres of Central and South Oakland. The city's Planning Commission was scheduled to vote today on legislation that would allow the project to move forward." Read more

"County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Mayor William Peduto announced plans to transform an abandoned road behind Bakery Square into one of the city's only public 'living' streets." Read more

"The Oakland Crossings development proposal doesn't just seek to transform nearly 18 acres of Oakland with new greenspace, housing for non-students and a grocery store. It also seeks to create a new means of making housing more accessible." Read more

"While one major Oakland community group battles zoning legislation crucial to a developer's bid to reshape Oakland, another is throwing its support behind the plan." Read more

"Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto defended his administration's zoning ordinance to make way for the more than 17-acre Oakland Crossing plan." Read more

It's been more than 20 years since Giant Eagle had a grocery in the heart of Oakland. The supermarket chain may now be considering a return engagement. Read more

"Pittsburgh City Council amended and advanced Shadyside developer Walnut Capital's Oakland Crossings plan last Wednesday. " Read more

"Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday advanced, with changes, controversial zoning legislation crucial to a developer's bid to reshape parts of Oakland despite pleas to delay action on the issue until the completion of a neighborhood master plan." Read more

The Altoona-based chain is planning to open a tech office at Bakery Square, one that will house members of its information technology, data and innovation departments. Read more

Phase 1 of neighborhood-developer partnership will build two of 10 new homes; effort represents first "for-sale" affordable housing initiative in city as part of TRID financing and first for-sale affordable new construction to be built in Larimer in over 30 years Read more

The second Pittsburgh location of Tako is set open at Bakery Square in the city's East End on Oct. 14. Read more

With its Bakery Square "refresh" now complete and major projects in the works in Oakland, Walnut Capital continues to play a leading role in transforming the East End and beyond. Read more

"Developer Walnut Capital is considering an audacious plan to reshape part of central and south Oakland with the construction of more than half-a-dozen new apartment buildings, a pedestrian bridge over the Boulevard of the Allies and a parking garage." Read more

The University of Pittsburgh is spending more than $25 million in Oakland to acquire a 285,000-square-foot lab and research project site on Fifth Avenue and a block of dilapidated rowhouses on Bates Street. Read more

The individual in the bold blue superhero-style cape stands tall on the 10-by-18 foot mural. Read more

Walnut Capital has completed a $25 million project to convert the venerable Pittsburgh Athletic Association clubhouse into office space. Read more