The Walnut Towers in Scenic Squirrel Hill

Our featured property of the week is the Walnut Towers in beautiful Squirrel Hill! Reserved parking, a fitness center, laundry facilities, and storage space are just the tip of the iceberg!

Walnut Towers is an elevator building that offers the convenience of an urban location nestled in a residential park-like setting. Downtown Pittsburgh, Oakland, Shadyside and Monroeville are just a few miles away.

Currently available are 1 Bedroom units at $825/month, and 2 Bedroom units at $945/month.

For more info visit the website or call (412) 683-3810!

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Roads to be Made Safer for Cyclists in Oakland

Oakland is getting ready to make a significant effort in ensuring cyclist safety in the city. After a two days of work-shopping the issue, new bike tracks will be placed in strategic areas of Oakland, taking bike commuters out of dangerous intersections.

After two days of ThinkBike workshops, the City of Pittsburgh is ready to bring the highest level of bicycle infrastructure to Oakland.

Based on the recommendations of Dutch mobility experts, the City is beginning the process of installing separated cycle tracks in the Fifth-Forbes corridor of this heavily trafficked neighborhood.

According to the City's Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Stephen Patchan, cycle tracks represent the most progressive piece of bicycle infrastructure currently available, and offer the highest level of safety for both cyclists and motorist.

Cycle tracks are on-street, bicycle-only paths, and often include physical barriers, such as curbs, between automobiles and cyclists. In Homestead, a cycle track was recently installed along the Great Allegheny Passage. The proposed track in Oakland would be the first in Pittsburgh.

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Pittsburgh: The Next Great Cultural City

Recently Business Insider named Pittsburgh the "next hipster haven" in its rankings of the 15 hottest cities in the U.S. The article takes a look at what makes a city the ideal spot for youthful culture to prosper, and Pittsburgh seems to be thriving in each category. The city is growing in population, has a growing job market, affordable housing, and is in the midst of a thriving economy. It is a great time to move into the city, secure your own home, and witness the emerging cultural boom!

The Steel City is attracting and retaining these young creative types with its cool cultural scene and thriving economy. 

It was recently ranked the second-best performing city in the US by the Metro Monitor from the Brookings Institute and one of the top cities in the US where people are hiring, according to Gallup.

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Pittsburgh Seeks To Become An Urban Forest!

The city of Pittsburgh currently houses more than 2.5 million trees... but that's not good enough for the city. There are currently plans to add to the huge number by more than 20% over the next 20 years! Why is this good for the city? The city's current trees have sequester 13,900 tons of carbon dioxide a year, saved residents $3 million in energy bills last year and remove 519 tons of pollution at a savings of $3.6 million a year. Street trees alone diverted 41.8 million gallons of stormwater last year.

The Post-Gazette did a story about bringing this new forest to the city, Michael Henninger writes:


As the bus lumbered through the city on a day that cried for shade, Arthur "Butch" Blazer fanned the barely conditioned air with his black Western hat. At every turn, trees swept past the windows -- the mature canopy in Allegheny Cemetery, the new line of saplings in the median on Penn Avenue in East Liberty -- until the bus stopped in North Point Breeze at Tree Pittsburgh's seedling nursery.


Mr. Blazer, the U.S. Agriculture Department's deputy under secretary of agriculture for natural resources and environment, joined Tree Pittsburgh's Thursday afternoon tour, after which it presented its urban forest master plan at an evening reception at Bar Marco in the Strip.
The $275,000 plan resulted from two years of data collection, analysis, consultations and benchmarking, and the USDA helped pay for it.


"The master planning process here is extremely important because it connects to the president's Great Outdoors Initiative," Mr. Blazer said. "When people think 'great outdoors,' they think of places like Yosemite. They need to start thinking about places like Pittsburgh, too. Eighty percent of our country's population is in urban areas, and we know the importance trees have on the psyches of humans."




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