Owners of the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills have been making progress after years of inactivity on the campus.<\/p>\n
Monday morning, a status conference, or non-jury trial, to address the criminal charge against the owners of the Mills was continued for a second time.<\/p>\n
Last April, the Allegheny County District Attorney\u2019s Office charged New York-based Namdar Realty Group with one misdemeanor count of creating a public nuisance due to potholes and unpaved roads throughout the complex.<\/p>\n
According to Steven Townsend, the attorney representing the realty group, Namdar has been doing work to abate the damages. Before winter hit, shoppers saw the milling and paving of Village Center Drive, which runs in front of Lowe\u2019s, Ross and Aldi. Galleria Drive, just off Pittsburgh Mills Boulevard, the site\u2019s main entrance, quickly followed.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy understanding from the District Attorney\u2019s Office is that, should we not follow protocol and continue with progress, then they\u2019re going to move forward with the trial,\u201d Townsend said.<\/p>\n
The next status conference is scheduled for May 11.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe purpose of a status conference is to make sure my client\u2019s doing what they\u2019ve agreed to do, which is remediate the issue down there,\u201d Townsend said.<\/p>\n
He said the remediation will address road paving, pothole repair and patching. Townsend said the work has been going on for some time, but was interrupted by winter weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe met with Frazer Township late last year, started doing the remediation,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that the weather has broken, we do a short postponement to make sure that we\u2019re fulfilling our obligations in continuing remediation.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Townsend didn\u2019t know the cost of remediation, he said the work needed in the area is \u201cextensive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole goal is to have the place repaired,\u201d Townsend said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owners of the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills have been making progress after years of inactivity on the campus.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-146675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}