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 …
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 …
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 …
