Match Day Partnered Employers Special
We are running an exclusive special for Match Day for our Partnered Employers from March 1st-31st. Those who are renting an apartment and work for one of our partnered employers will receive:
  • One year free parking (*for specific properties), waived admin fee, gift card to BKSQ
  • Those without a car, receive a waived admin fee, gift card to BKSQ, and one month free rent
These specials are also applicable to those who request to be a partnered employer and get signed on as a partner in the month of March. Visit our partnered employers page to have them added!

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Meg Davis

Meg Davis

Meg is our Digital Marketing Specialist who tends to our internet listing sources, examines our online analytics, manages our digital reputation and maintains all of our residential social media accounts, 16 to be exact! Meg is focused with a great work ethic. If you’re wondering how she has such beautiful red hair… it’s because she’s 100% Irish!

Sheetz orders up more space in Pittsburgh's Bakery Square

Sheetz orders up more space in Pittsburgh's Bakery Square

The location has about 70 workers now, she said, but has room for up to 120. The project represents an investment of about $5 million. Read more

From clubhouse to condos: Walnut Capital eyes housing at Oakland's Pittsburgh Athletic Association

From clubhouse to condos: Walnut Capital eyes housing at Oakland's Pittsburgh Athletic Association

Walnut Capital is considering a plan to convert much of the grandiose clubhouse into higher-end condominiums, perhaps as part of a mixed-use development that could include restaurants and offices. Read more

Jim Davis Wins PAA 2022 Best of Apartment Living Individual Award

Jim Davis Wins PAA 2022 Best of Apartment Living Individual Award

Jim is the Maintenance Tech at Bakery Living, and has won the PAA 2022 Best of Apartment Living Individual Award! Read more

How one Pittsburgh developer wants to fix Oakland's dead zone

How one Pittsburgh developer wants to fix Oakland's dead zone

Oakland is a neighborhood with plenty of personality dominated by Beaux-Arts/City Beautiful-era monumental civic architecture and student energy but that's not true of the entire neighborhood. Read more

Walnut Capital shares first phase of Oakland Crossings development project with residents

Walnut Capital shares first phase of Oakland Crossings development project with residents

"Developer Walnut Capital and design firm Strada presented the first phase of their proposed Oakland Crossings project to community residents during a development activities meeting co-hosted by the city of Pittsburgh Monday evening." Read more

Local leaders, developer break ground on project to connect Larimer, Homewood to East End

Local leaders, developer break ground on project to connect Larimer, Homewood to East End

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Walnut Capital Developer and community members from Larimer and Homewood met Thursday morning to break ground on a multi-model road project intended to connect the neighborhoods to jobs and amenities in the East End. Read more

Bakery Square to add a new Richard DeShantz restaurant, plus Jeni's ice cream

Bakery Square to add a new Richard DeShantz restaurant, plus Jeni's ice cream

As Richard DeShantz Restaurant Group looks to expand its portfolio in the Pittsburgh area, take a bite (and sip) of this: An izakaya restaurant is headed to Bakery Square. Read more

Developers reportedly looking to turn former Quality Inn into mixed use building

Developers reportedly looking to turn former Quality Inn into mixed use building

""What Oakland needs is density. We need a more diverse population of all income levels, all types of jobs. Right now, it's dominated so much by students that it's not really a thriving community," Todd Reidbord, Walnut Capital President said to the Post-Gazette." Read more

Oakland Crossings project moving forward after mayor, Walnut Capital reach agreement

Oakland Crossings project moving forward after mayor, Walnut Capital reach agreement

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Pittsburgh Planning Commission backs big Oakland development proposal with caveats

Pittsburgh Planning Commission backs big Oakland development proposal with caveats

"After months of controversy, the city Planning Commission Tuesday gave its support to a revised proposal designed to bring hundreds of new apartments and a grocery to part of Oakland. But it did so with reservations." Read more

Oakland Crossings deal is a win for Mayor Ed Gainey

Oakland Crossings deal is a win for Mayor Ed Gainey

"The approval process for the proposed Oakland Crossings development has demonstrated two very different models of public-private collaboration, and of mayoral leadership." Read more

Pittsburgh Planning Commission needs more time to decide on revamped Oakland Crossings project

Pittsburgh Planning Commission needs more time to decide on revamped Oakland Crossings project

"It will be another two weeks before Pittsburgh's Planning Commission makes a decision on the proposed Oakland Crossings development." Read more

Oakland Crossings commits to 10% affordable housing and will resume its stalled approval process

Oakland Crossings commits to 10% affordable housing and will resume its stalled approval process

"On Monday, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey's administration announced a deal to advance the controversial Oakland Crossings development. The changes include new promises to provide affordable housing." Read more

Plans for Oakland Crossings and UPMC tower moving forward. Here's what you need to know

Plans for Oakland Crossings and UPMC tower moving forward. Here's what you need to know

"Oakland is poised to be taller, shinier and more deliberately developed following a six-hour meeting of the City Planning Commission that focused largely on the future course of the neighborhood." Read more

Plans for Oakland move forward

Plans for Oakland move forward

"Votes on Oakland Crossings and a proposed UPMC tower, plus discussion of a 10-year plan, could shape the bustling Pittsburgh neighborhood's future." Read more

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey comes to terms with developers on proposed Oakland Crossings project

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey comes to terms with developers on proposed Oakland Crossings project

"After putting the proposed Oakland Crossings project on hold for a couple of months, Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey said Monday that his office has reached a deal with developer Walnut Capital on proposed zoning for the large-scale development in central Oakland." Read more

Gainey, Walnut Capital reach deal on Oakland Crossings project

Gainey, Walnut Capital reach deal on Oakland Crossings project

"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

Walnut Capital scales back proposal for Oakland Crossings

Walnut Capital scales back proposal for Oakland Crossings

"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

Gainey administration announces agreement with Walnut Capital for Oakland Crossings zoning

Gainey administration announces agreement with Walnut Capital for Oakland Crossings zoning

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

OBID meeting brings community leaders together to address equitable accessibility

OBID meeting brings community leaders together to address equitable accessibility

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