There are some Park Place neighbors who have lots of papers at home which need to be shredded. Shred-It will come to the neighborhood and make confetti of everything we have. This is a great way to get rid of old financial records, credit card solicitations, or any other documents that have sensitive personal information that could put you at risk of identity theft. The shredded documents will be recycled.
Joni Rabinowitz and Bob Kubiak are looking at possibly bringing in a shredding truck for one hour, some Saturday in January or February.
It would cost $95 for an hour, for everything we could bring. The truck probably will stay in one place and we have to bring our stuff. If we have enough, collectively, everybody who uses it could chip in some to make the $95.
People who are interested should email or call Joni at jonijohn@telerama.com or 412-241-8359.
The final agreement between the Greater Park Place Neighborhood Association and Paradise Development Group has been signed. This agreement outlines what Paradise will see for the development and rezoning near Penn and South Braddock for Walgreens.
This agreement restricts the developers to the taking of only one residence in that block, and further stipulates the developers purchase the two remaining adjacent homes and complete exterior renovation and restoration of those homes within a year and place them for sale on the open market.
The developers will pay for street trees for the entire block, working in conjunction with the city.
Arbitration, if needed will be provided by the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh, a non-profit organization.
Now that the agreement has been signed, the Pittsburgh City Council has passed the preliminary vote on a revised version of the zoning that matches the agreement reached between GPPNA and Paradise Development.
Thank you to everyone for all the hard work and tremendous participation throughout this process. This conflict with our city officials and Walgreens has lasted well over a year, but the final outcome is a good one for our community. We have influenced the development process into one that accommodates the specific needs of our community, strengthening an important entrance to the neighborhood. We also have show, to our elected officials, potential developers, and our selves- the commitment our friends and neighbors have for our community.
We are close to completing the final agreement between the community organization and the developers. At this time, we are waiting on the developers to send us a final version of the agreement reflecting some minor changes that have been verbally agreed to. I’ll post the final version here. It will include a site plan and a renovations list. We have verbal agreement on all the outstanding issues at this point.
As of last week, Paradise has now taken this agreement to Walgreens, as part of the overall deal they are brokering with them. We have not yet heard back from them, but expect to soon.
Provided this is approved by Walgreens, then the last item is to sign the agreement, and I am expecting/hoping that will be this week.
