Maybe comfort food wasn’t the best word. Maybe “casual dining chain “ would be better. However, it doesn’t negate the point. Nor does the existence of 2 restaurants

I neither said nor implied that EatnPark was inferior. I occasionally eat there If there was one near me I’d probably go there more often.

Two reasons Rents are significantly higher in the city.

The suburban population tends to skew towards chains and more “comfort food”.

So the same reason there’s no Applebees or Fridays. (Excluding Waterworks, which is technically in the city)

Giant Eagle has a secret agreement with Resses. Just like they do with Wegmans. My brother in law knows a guy whose next door neighbor's cousin used to deliver Towntalk to 5 GynIggle's and they confirmed it's true on a Facebook post.

Old Speckled Hen? Fullers London Pride? I’ve had them both there before Covid.

DLC no longer owns any power generation plants- they buy the power. The difference is DLC's rates are regulated. The third party rates are not.

When you choose one of these third parties, they essentially go to anyone of a number of generators on the grid and buy the electricity on your behalf. So they may in fact be getting the power from a different source than DLC gets it, and maybe at a cheaper rate than DLC pays. Of course, they'll mark it up a little or take a loss for a few months, and once the initial term expires gouge you.

There used to be some good green suppliers out their; the original Green mountain was one. They've since changed ownership though.

And as far as I know every Giant Eagle in the city limits with the possible exception of the Shadyside market district have been supermarkets for 40 years or more. Possibly parkway center as well, which though technically in the city limits is definitely in a suburban-esque area.

You’re not going to see many new construction supermarkets in cities like Pittsburgh.

And the pandemic has increase the "haul culture" tremendously. We've learned over a two year period to buy extra because it may be out of stock next time, and also avoid having to go into a crowded store so often.

>these places are thriving in places less dense and more impoverished than Pittsburgh

The traditional food stores (supermarkets, chain convenience stores) tend to avoid impoverished areas, so the local bodegas there face less competition. And lower income folks are less likely to be able to travel to a full service grocery store. (no car, poor public transit). The lower density areas also tend to have less public transit options.

Maybe these are some of the reasons they are thriving in the cities you mentioned? In addition to the reasons I mentioned previously?

Oh I agree 100%. There should be a full reassessment every4-5 years, with an interim update every year based on comparable sales in areas where enough sales occurred. If not enough sales occurred, use a more neighborhood specific version of a CLR

This would even out the burden, and negatively impact long time home owners in areas where values are rising.

So along with this would have to be some changes to the homestead exemption. Maybe increase the reduction based on years you have owned and occupied the home.

There is no single cause. Some of the reasons:

Owner retires and children don’t want to take over and can’t find a buyer

Rising rents

Rising costs from distributors

Rising wages /“No one wants to work! /s”

Availability of groceries at stores like Family Dollar, RiteAid, Target. Aldi.

Inability of a corner store to compete with the above on price and or selection

I’m glad you think yours was fair. But if you’re paying taxes based on the actual sales price (times the CLR), then the taxes you’re paying are correct but probably not fair. The reason being the fair market value is probably the price you paid. For homes that haven’t sold recently, the county uses a 2012 actual assessment. If your house was reassessed due to the sale, the county reduced the assessment by about 80 percent to attempt to calculate what the home would have been worth in 2012.

The courts recently determined the 80% number was not accurate, due to the county using cherry picked data as the basis for the calculation.
The real number should have been 63%.

Assuming your assessment is about 80% of what you paid for the house, you may save 20% by filling an appeal. That would probably put you close to paying your fair share. I’d contact one of the attorneys that probably sent you a mailing when you bought.

And as far as far as fairly funding schools,my take is the resources available to educate a child should not be dependent on the value of his neighbors home

Oh and ow are pronounced the same. “ I’m going out of town” is “Ahl be going aht of tahn”

If they had used the term “assessment appeals” it would be accurate.

People’s is expanding their convenience store to include a “restaurant”. Or least close enough to a restaurant to get a beer license.

The gallery will be in the graffiti covered building across Penn from Spork. Or in Pittsburgh terms, where the Horoscope lounge was. Ya know, across from where the Quiet Storm used to be.

You can find the budgets for almost all of the funded organizations online. You’ll see a line item for “RAD Grant “or something similar.
If RAD was falsely claiming to give a grant, and the institution never received it, they’d certainly be complaining.

Also, there’s multiple levels of outside auditing. Both RAD and most of the recipients have annual financial audits, as well as audits to show that the money was used for the intended purpose.

I'm sure before he took off he tugged on the straps and said "That ain't goin' nowhere." So perfectly safe. /s

r/strapitup

Probably the train overpass near the Greyhound.

Thanks. Fixed the typo

The vast majority of the 1% goes to things like libraries, parks, museums. Fully half of it goes directly to the county and municipalities for their general fund.

I think it’s like ten percent goes to the 3 sports facilities and the Convention Center debt service. Still too much though.

The taxpayers were paying paying off Three Rivers stadium debt until about 2010, nine years after it was demolished. The debt on the Civic Arena wasn’t paid off until 5 years after it was demolished. (Not the original debt, but for improvements over the years )

Unless there was additional debt incurred in the past few , the debt on Acrisure Stadium will be paid off in 2031.

The naming rights money goes to the Stealers.

Edit to fix typo

The article says the owner of the property did not pay the property taxes. The leaseholder (SnS owner)was paying the rent as agreed, which includes the property taxes. It was the landlord who never sent the tax payments in.

I’m guessing this enabled the tenant to get out of the lease. If they really wanted to keep the store open they could have worked something out with the landlord.

Salem’s is planning to open a store at that site sometime this year.