I have been working with Sustainable Pittsburgh over the past several months to help organize and promote the 11th Annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference, coming up Tuesday, Dec. 13 at Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center. So why is the Allegheny Conference partnering with Sustainable Pittsburgh on this subject? [...]
On a recent edition of Our Region’s Business, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Jeremy Waldrup of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership discussed the remarkable developments taking place in downtown Pittsburgh’s lower Fifth Ave. corridor. From the planned construction of PNC’s green skyscraper to several large scale residential projects in the works [...]
As part of its agenda planning process for 2012-2014, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development earlier this year hosted 26 planning sessions across the region that involved more than 750 individuals. Among these was a special session – a first for the organization – that convened 200-plus professionals in their 20s and 30s, the region’s [...]
Who wants to topple Houston, Texas as the energy capital of the world? It turns out that the birthplace of the energy industry – the greater Pittsburgh region may be making Houston feel a little heat of competition – at least in recent coverage on KUT, the National Public Radio station in [...]
The Pittsburgh region’s profile as a center of manufacturing, finance, energy, health care and life sciences and information and communications technology has piqued the interest of dynamic Asian markets, including Korea. Strong business ties have connected Pittsburgh with Korea for some time, including investments in the region by key players such as
When President Obama traveled to Pittsburgh last month to meet with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, entrepreneurship and the potential it has to drive America’s economic revival were on the minds of many. Less than a week after the death of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the President remarked at the IBEW Training Center in [...]
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