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Awards • Green • Up Front CTGBC Holds Virtual Awards Award of Excellence Best in Show winner, Frick Park Environmental CenterNew Haven, CT – On Oct. 29, the Connecticut Green Building Council (CTGBC) held…
Read MoreHarrisburg’s Riverfront Park has been designated a 2020 Great Place in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association.Through its Great Places in Pennsylvania Program, the chapter annually designates…
Read MoreAlmost exactly a year ago, 100 tiny American yellowwood tree seedlings were planted and stood whipping in wintry winds on a sloping hill behind Carnegie Mellon University in Schenley Park.The…
Read MoreThey’re keeping invasive plants from taking over Pittsburgh’s Frick Park by doing what comes naturally. For the goats at least! October 27, 202012:00 pmThis story is part of a…
Read MoreA North Side fountain built to quench the thirst of horses, riders and birds will be restored with a $50,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The commission awarded…
Read MoreMAY 18, 2006 Pittsburgh City PaperHow do you restore a landscape or building that has been many different things over time? Do you freeze it in one particular era, or…
Read MoreJUN 4, 2006 Pittsburgh Post-GazettePitt students have been tossing footballs and Frisbees on it for weeks, but when Schenley Plaza has its official opening this week, it will invite a…
Read MoreJUN 22, 2006 Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn “Big Yellow Taxi,” folksinger Joni Mitchell lamented, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”Upon visiting the newly christened Schenley Plaza in Oakland, one…
Read MorePop CitySomewhere, Mary Schenley is smiling.Nestled in the heart of central Oakland, a 4.5-acre green oasis bears the name of the 19th-century Pittsburgh heiress who shocked the world and stoked…
Read MoreNOV 10, 2006 Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAfter helping to lift a steeple in one park and build a temporary bridge in another, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said yesterday that he is investing…
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