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

"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

""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

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"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

"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

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

"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