Happy Halloween, Pittsburgh!

Happy Halloween! We hope you have a wonderful holiday full of costumes, pumpkins, scary stories, and best of all, candy! This year when you go to your favorite Squirrel Hill areas, make sure you are going on the right day. The city's Trick-or-Treat night has moved to Saturday in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Have a great time this year, and stay safe!

While Pittsburgh city operations are continuing as normal — including, for now, scheduled trash pickups — emergency personnel are preparing to respond to days of high winds, flash flooding and power outages, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said today at an afternoon conference with the city's press. 

The city's Halloween Trick-or-Treat night has been rescheduled from Wednesday evening to 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3. 

Otherwise, "we're planning to conduct business as usual," he said. "We're not changing our daily routine."

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Pittsburgh: Home to Top Workplaces

Pittsburgh is quickly becoming one of the best places in the U.S. to find a job, and now it seems that we're becoming a top city to keep a job! It seems that the city isn't just a great place to live, but it's a great place to find great employment, love your job, and build a career for yourself!

This second annual Top Workplaces section challenges our misconceptions about what it means to work in Western Pennsylvania. Turns out there are some impressive employers out there. 

The list, like our region's economy, is dominated by employers in the medical and educational sectors. But there also are a large number of charitable nonprofits on the list. The professional and retail sectors also are well represented. 

Missing from the list are most manufacturers and many of the region's heavy hitters, whose names appear most regularly in the news. Primarily, that is because they chose not to participate in the survey by the Post-Gazette's research partner, WorkplaceDynamics, which calculated the list of top workplaces. 

We're hoping that changes next year and more employers step up to be recognized for making Pittsburgh not just one of the best places to live, but one of the best places to work, too.

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Bakery Social To Open in Bakery Square

Bakery Square will soon be working on Bakery Social, a new fun, casual and interesting sit-down restaurant at the heart of the complex. The concept is to make a restaurant perfect for young tech workers in the area which offers a different dining experience. We can't wait to see the final result!

Walnut Capital Partners didn’t have to look far for its new restaurant and bar concept expected to open in Bakery Square after the new year. The company reached into the same building in which its offices are located to partner with long-established Shadyside restaurateur Gregg Caliguiri and company on a new concept to be called Bakery Social. 

"It’s going to be a casual sit-down restaurant, full service. a fun bar that possess the energy that Bakery Square needs,” said Caliguiri, who said to expect a new restaurant that will appeal to the young tech workers and other denizens of the growing Penn Avenue corridor. “I‘m pretty certain that all those folks are looking for more a complete meal and an atmosphere where they can go and hold a meeting.” 

Expect a menu of gourmet pizzas, salads and warps along with range of craft beers and cocktails, said Caliguiri, who added the plan calls for offering private meeting spaces as well.

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Pittsburgh Ranks High On Economic Index

Pittsburgh stays on top of the nations economy again, this time ranking in the top 10 in the On Numbers Economic Index. The ranking is based of off indicators that analyse 18 statistical indicators including unemployment, earnings, housing-price appreciation, and others.

Pittsburgh is ranked at No. 9 in the index that measures 18 economic indicators through October. Pittsburgh, Boston and Columbus, Ohio, are the only three east of the Mississippi River. 

The region's home value prices and private sector growth rate since 2007 is what makes Pittsburgh so high up on the list. Leading the list is Oklahoma City.

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Oakland's Lulu's Makes National List

Lulu's, the famed noodle restaurant in Oakland, made it on a national list of 100 delicious restaurants along with two other Pittsburgh eateries!

Three Pittsburgh-area restaurants have made it onto a national list of the top 100 "Cheap Eats" -- but none from Philadelphia or anywhere else in Pennsylvania.  

Primanti Brothers in the Strip District, Lulu's Noodles in Oakland and SMOKE Barbeque Taqueria in Homestead made the list compiled by mobile restaurant company Urbanspoon.  

They were the only three restaurants in Pennsylvania to make the list, which included 27 states and 61 metro regions. You can find the entire list on the Urbanspoon website. 

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