Spring: Before You Know It!

With all the sunshine and melting snow we’ve seen over the past few days, it’s hard not to turn your thoughts to spring, when everything in the parks will look new again and there will be tons of opportunities to get outside.  We’ve got a busy slate of events coming up starting in March, including half [...]

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Design Firms Needed!

Calling all design/architecture firms: we’re releasing two RFPs/RFQs this morning, one for a new design of the Frick Environmental Center in Frick Park, and one for a project management plan for Cliffside Park in the Hill District and McKinley Park in Beltzhoover.  A link to the requests and supporting documents for each project is below. Frick Environmental Center The [...]

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A Match for the Community

For our first ten years, the Parks Conservancy focused our work exclusively on the four regional parks of Pittsburgh–Frick, Highland, Riverview, and Schenley.  But when Mayor Luke Ravenstahl asked us to broaden our reach to the rest of Pittsburgh’s parks system as time and resources permitted, we were thrilled with the opportunity to spend time [...]

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A Village in the Woods

For the past several years, the Parks Conservancy has been working with the Find the Rivers! consortium and the Hill District community to develop a “greenprint” for the Hill.  This new way of seeing the Hill District was widely celebrated with the release of the completed Greenprint plan in mid-June.  The Greenprint’s goal is to establish [...]

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