Homewood Nation

Mr. Green,

I recently came across an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution written by Thomas Friedman (NY Times:

In case anyone doesn't know yet, the Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon will bring thousands of runners to the streets of Homewood on Sunday, May 6. And that means that dozens of volunteers will assemble in front of Homewood House, the senior residence at 7130 Frankstown Avenue, to serve at the 17.6 mile fluid station...

Volunteers at the H...

On April 11, I joined a panel of guests on "Ebony Spectrum," the weekly radio program hosted by Kevin Amos and Rick Adams on WCRT-FM, to talk about development in Homewood. The other guests were Sonya Boyd of the Homewood Agricultural Project, Fred Logan, outreach consultant C. Denise Johnson, Lucille Prater-Holliday, and Randall Taylor.

Here's the recording of the program, in four parts.

I am experimenting with a story creation tool called Storify. I just used it to create a story about Saturday's treet planting. I intended to post the story here, but my website host seems to dislike Storify's code. So here's a link to the story on Storify...

Jerome Jackson (center bg), executive director of Operation Better Block Inc., welcomes visitors to the future site of The Wheel Mill, Pennsylvania's first indoor bike park. Harry M. Geyer IV, creator of the bike park, stands next to him.

Bicycle enthusiasts got an early glimpse tonight of a Pennsylvania's first indoor bike park, to be located in Homewood.

There was a racket outside this morning that made me fear for a moment that another house was being torn down on Race Street.

I looked out a window and saw that it was just guys digging holes in front of my house. Big holes. Thirty-square-foot holes.

FOR... TREES.

FIRST PUBLISHED: 4/12/12, 5:50 pm

LAST UPDATE: 4/13/12, 10:02 am

A senior housing complex proposed for the 500 block of N. Homewood Avenue has been awarded $1 million in tax credit financing from the state.

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency granted $1,093,857 in annual tax credits for the project, which will contain 41 apartments for tenants aged 55 years or older, along with street level retail spaces.

The complex, 

(UPDATE: I will be on the Rick Adams/Kevin Amos weekly radio program, "Ebony Spectrum," at 6 pm today, 4/11/12 to talk about Homewood real estate. Other invited guests include Fred Logan, Lucille Prater-Holliday and Randall Taylor. Tune in at www.wrct.org, or at 88.3 FM.)

Start walking north on Homewood Avenue from the Homewood stop of the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway, and you will pass many vacant lots and vacant lots by the time you reach Frankstown Avenue. Tu...

John M. Wallace, chair of the Homewood Children's Village board of directors and professor of social work at the University of Pittsburgh, is being honored as an "activist scholar" for his role in helping to establish the HCV.

He will receive the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award during a special plenary session at the Urban Affairs Association's national conference this month. The award comes from UAA and SAGE Publications, which specializes in textbooks, journals a...

The City of PIttsburgh has begun demolishing Sterrett-Collier, the rowhouse development that became famous - or infamous - as "the killing fields" because of the amount of crime that has happened there.

The wrecking ball began to swing Wednesday, and both the Post-Gazette and the Tribune-Review have articles about the demolition. 

The Tribune Review a...