\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCity officials have announced plans to redevelop over 100 vacant lots in Pittsburgh’s Larimer community, aiming to bring new housing and storefronts to the area. Mayor Corey O’Connor, City Councilman Khari Mosley, the Larimer Consensus Group and Urban Redevelopment Authority leaders gathered Monday to announce the release of a request for interest in rebuilding housing on dormant lots throughout the neighborhood.”The community is long overdue for an opportunity to truly become livable for all,” said Chase Patterson, of the Larimer Consensus Group.The timeline for the project is moving quickly, with the request for interest already released. Officials said they hope to offer property tours by mid-July and select builders by the end of September.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube ChannelO’Connor added that the construction will be done in bulk rather than one lot at a time.”Because that’s how we’re going to grow this city, grow neighborhoods like Larimer,” he said.The redevelopment will focus on scattered site lots or individual lots owned by the city or the URA.”Now it’s time to fill in those parcels and those lots to really make the streets, the sidewalks, safe and friendly for everybody,” Patterson said.O’Connor also announced that the city has requested $15 million from the state to help clear the vacant lots.The request for interest deadline is Aug. 24. You can find the application here.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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City officials have announced plans to redevelop over 100 vacant lots in Pittsburgh’s Larimer community, aiming to bring new housing and storefronts to the area. <\/p>\n
Mayor Corey O’Connor, City Councilman Khari Mosley, the Larimer Consensus Group and Urban Redevelopment Authority leaders gathered Monday to announce the release of a request for interest in rebuilding housing on dormant lots throughout the neighborhood.<\/p>\n
“The community is long overdue for an opportunity to truly become livable for all,” said Chase Patterson, of the Larimer Consensus Group.<\/p>\n
The timeline for the project is moving quickly, with the request for interest already released. Officials said they hope to offer property tours by mid-July and select builders by the end of September.<\/p>\n
Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n O’Connor added that the construction will be done in bulk rather than one lot at a time.<\/p>\n “Because that’s how we’re going to grow this city, grow neighborhoods like Larimer,” he said.<\/p>\n The redevelopment will focus on scattered site lots or individual lots owned by the city or the URA.<\/p>\n “Now it’s time to fill in those parcels and those lots to really make the streets, the sidewalks, safe and friendly for everybody,” Patterson said.<\/p>\n O’Connor also announced that the city has requested $15 million from the state to help clear the vacant lots.<\/p>\n The request for interest deadline is Aug. 24. You can find the application here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials have announced plans to redevelop over 100 vacant lots in Pittsburgh’s Larimer community, aiming to bring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2088,26097,97779,22103,4736,17289,62311,97781,97780,2092,8969,73,75,74,97778,132,10090,20348,526,56243,97782,78355],"class_list":["post-225101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-area","tag-city-official","tag-dormant-lot","tag-home-building","tag-housing","tag-interest","tag-larimer","tag-larimer-community","tag-larimer-consensus-group","tag-more-news","tag-neighborhood","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-vacant-lot","tag-redevelopment","tag-request","tag-storefront","tag-time","tag-ura","tag-urban-redevelopment-authority-leader","tag-vacant-lots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225101","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=225101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}