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Entries from February 2007

Congratulations, Pittsburgh Film Office!

February 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

The Pittsburgh Film Office is the Charity of the Day on Goodsearch, the search engine that donates a portion of their revenue to your favorite charity!

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Win One, Lose One

February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

On the heels of the news yesterday that US Airways selected Pittsburgh to host its operations center, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that nuclear engineering firm Bechtel has bowed to pressure from Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer and will only be transfering 70 jobs to Monroeville (rather than the expected 260).
One step forward (plus 150 [...]

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Carnival of Real Estate Awards

February 19th, 2007 · 8 Comments

Pittsburgh Homes Daily is proud to present the Valentine’s Week Edition of the Carnival of Real Estate.
I’d like to highly commend the 24 participants who submitted an article this week.  It’s a good thing that you didn’t have to submit it in person, since much of the state was shut down by ice, snow, and [...]

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Pittsburgh Symphony Blogfest

February 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ll be at the Pittsburgh Symphony Blogfest this afternoon at Heinz Hall.  I won’t be bringing my laptop to the event, but I wanted to thank the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for the invitation and free tickets!
It is part of my effort to get out more this year.  I’ve already been to see Cabaret at the O’Reilly Theatre and Hubbard Street Dance [...]

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URA to FINALLY acquire Garden Theatre

February 17th, 2007 · No Comments

I missed the news yesterday in the paper that the URA is going to take possession of the Garden Theatre on Wednesday. Thanks Doug for bringing it to my attention. Here is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article on the news.
Now the question is whether the request for developer proposals that have been released [...]

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Tags: Commercial Real Estate · North Shore · Pittsburgh · Real Estate · URA

Virtual Tours with Mapwing

February 15th, 2007 · 6 Comments

I received an email today from Andrew at Redbug Technologies about Mapwing, their website allowing the creation of virtual tours for, among other things, real estate.
Since my car is still covered in ice from Tuesday-Wednesday’s storm, I haven’t taken much of a look at it, but here is what someone else put together:

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Welcome, Carnival of Real Estate!

February 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The Carnival of Real Estate is coming to Pittsburgh Homes Daily next Monday.  I’m looking forward to reading through the submissions of other real estate bloggers and picking/sharing my favorite(s).  Stay tuned!

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Pittsburgh’s Architectural Gems

February 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Fallingwater and the Allegheny County Courthouse were named as two of the American Institute of Architect’s favorite pieces of American architecture.  The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has more about these buildings in an article today.

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Tags: Architecture · Fallingwater · Personal · Pittsburgh · Why Pittsburgh

Public Service Announcement: Pork Board after Blogger

February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

One of the great things about being a part of the blogging community is the way that people (even complete strangers) pitch in to help each other out.
And since I’ve been thinking about how to respond to recent comments in Pittsburgh newspapers about the alleged inability of bloggers to make a difference in the upcoming local [...]

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