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EAST LIBERTY (KDKA) — It’s become ground zero in the fight over gentrification. The Penn Plaza Apartments, once home to middle class renters, are being torn down to make way for a new Whole Foods and luxury apartment complex. Tuesday, the Pittsburgh...

“The URA took a bold step.” When LG Realty Advisors began evicting residents from its East Liberty Penn Plaza apartment complex last June, residents protested and the city intervened. The action highlighted the growing lack of affordable housing in...

Click here for reuse options! For decades, poor residents of East Liberty found refuge in Penn Plaza. Now it's being demolished. Suzette and Richard Haroldton (not their real names) watched as the roof of the small house they rented caved in. When...

Whole Foods in Shadyside/East Liberty Pittsburgh / Paul Sableman July 28, 2016; WESA-FM (Pittsburgh National Public Radio) You know your neighborhood is hot when Whole Foods puts a second store just two blocks from the first. That’s what’s going on...

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Eleventh Stack are celebrating Black History Month by highlighting books, music and movies by African American Artists. We also have a ton of great events and programs for children, teens and adults. You can view all...