Thursday, April 4, 2013
The money will be used to maximize community input and future planning for the 180-acre parcel of land in Richland Township.
Spring isn’t the only thing that will have things blooming around the Pine-Richland area. On Wednesday, The Garden Club of Allegheny County, a member of The Garden Club of America, granted the Allegheny Land Trust $14,250 to conduct master planning at the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property in Richland Township. The funding will be used to maximize community input and future planning for the 180-acre parcel of land. "Through its fundraising efforts, The Garden Club of Allegheny County is pleased to be able to provide funding to support the Allegheny Land Trust's development of a master plan for the Pittsburgh Cut Flower property," said Jennifer Muse, President of The Garden Club of Allegheny County. "We see value in preserving this …
Friday, March 1, 2013
Plans call for turning the majority of the 180-acre site into green space.
As snow created a white blanket over the dilapidated former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property, Allegheny Land Trust celebrated raising 75 percent of the $1.4 million purchase price for the 180-acre parcel it plans to turn into green space. Two people who have been key to fundraising efforts—Secretary Richard Allan of Pennsylvania's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and John Rohe, vice president of Colcom Foundation—unveiled a sign Thursday showing the red on a fundraising thermometer at the 75 percent mark. Allegheny Land Trust has a contract to buy the 180-acre property at 4136 Bakerstown Road/Red Belt on the northwestern part of Richland Township. The land is owned by Florida-based Legacy Landings LLC. The Allegheny Land …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Allegheny Land Trust plans to buy the property that was once the home of a thriving flower-growing operation.
In case you missed it ... A program that chronicled the past and envisioned the future of the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property in Richland Township will be broadcast on PRTV. Dozens of people gathered for the program earlier this month at Northern Tier Regional Library that was hosted by Allegheny Land Trust, the nonprofit that has a $1.4 million contract to buy the 180-acre parcel. The event was an opportunity for the local community to envision what it wants the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property along Bakerstown Road/Red Belt to be in the future. In the meantime, photos and artifacts gathered and preserved by historian Brian Newhouse were on display to remind attendees of the past. Newhouse gave a slide presentation that …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Community turns out for library event that celebrates property's history and future.
As dozens of people gathered to celebrate the past and envison the future of the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property, Allegheny Land Trust announced it has raised more than $1 million toward the $1.4 million purchase price of the 180-acre parcel in Richland Township. ALT Land Protection Director Roy Kraynyk made the $1,064,500 funding announcement Saturday at a special event at the Northern Tier Regional Library. The event was an opportunity for the local community to envision what it wants the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property along Bakerstown Road/Red Belt to be in the future. In the meantime, photos and artifacts gathered and preserved by historian Brian Newhouse were on display to remind attendees of the past. PRTV recorded …
Thursday, February 7, 2013
The 180-acre property has dilapidated greenhouses on it now, but the future holds ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
ALT is purchasing the 180-acre property in Richland Township for $1.4 million. It plans to protect more than 80 percent of the land, which is made up of ponds, streams, meadows and woodlands.
The pot of money to buy the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property in Richland Township just got a whole lot bigger. The Allegheny Land Trust—which is under contract to buy the 180-acre property on Bakerstown Road in Richland Township—announced Tuesday that it is the recipient of a $509,500 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. ALT contracted with Legacy Landings LLC, the current owner, to buy the property for $1.4 million and already has raised thousands of dollars toward that goal. Legacy Landings is working now to clean up the property of dilapidated greenhouses and other structures, some of which have hazardous materials in them like asbestos. The land trust plans to permanently protect more than …
Monday, January 21, 2013
The nonprofit land trust also is in the process of acquiring the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property in Richland Township.
The Allegheny Land Trust recently announced receipt from RT Partners LP of an 88-acre gift of beautiful wooded land in Marshall Township adjacent to the Venango Trails residential development currently under construction. The property, at the headwaters of the Brush Creek watershed, has many springs and spring seeps and mature hardwoods. “One of the oak trees is so large that it would take three adults to wrap their arms completely around its four foot diameter trunk”, said Roy Kraynyk, the land trust’s Land Protection Director. The land will be available to the public for non-motorized passive recreation such as hiking. This is especially interesting in this case because a section of the historic Venango Trail exists on the property …
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Northern Tier Library event celebrates past and envisions future for the property on Bakerstown Road. Allegheny Land Trust is in the process of acquiring the property and transforming it into a solar farm and green space.
Have you driven past the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property on Bakerstown Road and wondered why 10 acres of greenhouses have been abandoned and taken over by native trees and plants that push through the glass panes? Maybe you remember when that site was the flourishing Pittsburgh Cut Flower operation that grew millions of roses and other flowers for decades. Perhaps you or a loved one worked there. A history of the property and a vision for its future all come together at a 1 p.m. event on Saturday, Feb. 9, at Northern Tier Library. The public is invited to the gathering that celebrates the history of the 180-acre parcel in the northwestern part of Richland Township with speakers and displays of unique artifacts from the Pittsburgh Cut…
Friday, November 30, 2012
Community is raising funds to help pay the $1.4 million purchase price of the 180-acre site on Bakerstown Road in Richland Township.
As the community rallies to raise $1.4 million to buy the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property, workers have begun to clean up the site's dilapidated asbestos-laced greenhouses along Bakerstown Road in Richland. The property's current owner—Legacy Landings LLC of Florida—has contracted with Mid-Atlantic Environment Consultants of Gibsonia and Agresta Construction and Demolition of Philadelphia for the cleanup. The nonprofit Allegheny Land Trust has a contract to buy the 180-acre site at 4136 Bakerstown Road. Its vision is to build a solar farm on the 10-acre brownfield portion of the land where decaying greenhouses are now located. About 150 acres would be permanent green space. That solar farm could generate power for a small commercial …
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Volunteers are helping raise funds to go toward the $1.4 million cost of buying 180 acres in Richland Township.
Bundled up in a coats on a cold rainy day, volunteers stood in front of the Wal-Mart selling Christmas luminaria kits Saturday to help the community raise $140,000 for the purchase of the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property in Richland Township. The Orchard Park Neighborhood Association volunteers will be in that spot one more day—from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday—to offer the kits to shoppers at the Route 8 store in Gibsonia. OPNA organized the fundraiser after the nonprofit Allegheny Land Trust challenged the community to raise 10 percent of the $1.4 million needed to purchase the 180-acre tract on Bakerstown Road. Allegheny Land Trust has a contract to buy the property and plans to turn it into a solar wind farm and green space. …
Howard Manns
9:36 am on Monday, March 25, 2013
I was out of town during the Tier Library meeting. Will there be any more meetings? Also, I just read the article in the IN Community magazine and it mentions that scores of ideas were collected and will be evaluated. Can ideas still be submitted and if so, where or what is the process? more ›