{"id":269476,"date":"2026-08-21T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269476\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:36:14","slug":"pittsburgh-snags-3m-from-state-for-boulevard-of-the-allies-tree-lined-median","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269476\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh snags $3M from state for Boulevard of the Allies tree-lined median"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Downtown Pittsburgh is getting a shot in the arm from the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Monday, the city announced in a release that it will be receiving $3 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The money will go toward the renovation of the Boulevard of the Allies in the Central Business District, a project that has been a priority of Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In the release, the city said the funds will work toward \u201cadvancing Mayor Corey O\u2019Connor\u2019s vision to create a greener, more welcoming connection through downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/17\/shapiro-admin-3m-for-pittsburgh.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/08\/17\/shapiro-admin-3m-for-pittsburgh.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downtown Pittsburgh is getting a shot in the arm from the state. On Monday, the city announced in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41868,113642,113643,16224,109162,73,113644,113645,75,74,5382,5533],"class_list":["post-269476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-boulevard-of-the-allies","tag-boulevard-of-the-allies-median","tag-boulevard-of-the-allies-trees","tag-central-business-district","tag-median","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-boulevard","tag-pittsburgh-boulevard-of-the-allies","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-tree","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269476","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=269476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}