{"id":82452,"date":"2026-01-09T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:19:13","slug":"mayor-oconnors-bid-to-improve-permitting-has-plenty-of-supporters-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82452\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor O\u2019Connor\u2019s bid to improve permitting has plenty of supporters \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Ken Zeff is ready to open his latest Yinz Coffee shop, a 4,000-square-foot setup in the Frick Building on Grant Street that\u2019s the largest he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful store,\u201d said Zeff of his new location, scheduled to open on Monday, January 12. \u201cIt\u2019s by far the prettiest store I\u2019ve been a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It\u2019s worth the wait for Zeff to open what will be his fourth Yinz Coffee shop within the Golden Triangle, even as the length of that wait is well beyond what he might\u2019ve expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/06\/permitting-mayor-corey-oconnor-executive-order.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/06\/permitting-mayor-corey-oconnor-executive-order.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":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Ken Zeff is ready to open his latest Yinz Coffee shop, a 4,000-square-foot setup in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4784,894,60,10372,15116,30761,10132,84,3404,41546,73,75,74,23775,976,16890,41545],"class_list":["post-82452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-administration","tag-allegheny-county","tag-business","tag-coffee-shop","tag-corey-oconnor","tag-frick-building","tag-grant-street","tag-mayor","tag-permit","tag-permitting","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-process","tag-restaurant","tag-store","tag-yinz-coffee-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82452","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=82452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}