Developers Have Big Plans For Bakery Square
EAST END (KDKA) – If a development group gets its way, Bakery Square in the East End could get a lot bigger. Bakery Square is an open-air market, hotel and office development, but two developers want...
View ArticleOfficials Announce Plans For Bakery Square 2.0
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — More economic development is coming to the east end of Pittsburgh. Walnut Capital, the developer that converted the old Nabisco Bakery on Penn Avenue into Bakery Square, is planning...
View ArticleOfficials Break Ground On Bakery Square 2.0
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Ground was broken on a new project in East Liberty Thursday morning. It’s called Bakery Square 2.0. Bakery Square has helped transform the East Liberty area and brought in...
View ArticleIs East Liberty Re-Development Leaving Some Residents Behind?
EAST LIBERTY (KDKA) – The City of Pittsburgh is one of the hottest real estate markets in the country and old neighborhoods are being transformed. But, are some people being left behind? Pittsburgh is...
View ArticleDetectives: McDonald’s Employee Sold Heroin In Happy Meals
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Pittsburgh drug detectives say they arrested a McDonald’s worker who was selling heroin in Happy Meals. The District Attorney Narcotics Enforcement team received information that...
View ArticleGoogle Expanding In Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Google will soon be looking for hundreds of new employees here in Pittsburgh. It’s confirming that it’ll expand its operations at Bakery Square. Its mission: to organize all the...
View ArticlePeduto Excited For Job Growth & New Development
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – While President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were unveiling a new job training grant program at the CCAC campus in North Fayette Wednesday, one man got...
View ArticleBakery Square Development Continues Resurgence Of East Liberty
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Not exactly in unison but united nonetheless, developers and community leaders broke ground on a $120 million development on what was once the Reizenstein School on Penn Avenue in...
View ArticlePresident Obama Visits TechShop During Latest Visit To Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) — President Obama was in Pittsburgh again today for his third visit to the area just this year. During a visit to TechShop at Bakery Square in East Liberty, the President said...
View ArticleYou Need To Eat This: Free Ice Cream
Who wants some free ice cream? Good news, Ben and Jerry’s will be here Wednesday and Thursday giving away free scoops. And while the cone will be delicious, it will also be political. The ice cream...
View ArticleMan Paralyzed In Traffic Stop Halts East Liberty Traffic With Protest
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The man who was shot and paralyzed during a traffic stop in November of 2012 brought traffic to a halt in East Liberty Tuesday afternoon when he led a group of demonstrators in a...
View ArticleGovernor Visits Tech Shop In Bakery Square To Promote Manufacturing
http://media.pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/CBSPIT_0804201516520060299AA.mp4 PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s called the Tech Shop in Bakery Square — and if that sounds familiar — President Obama was there last June...
View ArticlePittsburgh Native Arrested, Accused Of Selling Pot Through Mail
PITTSBURGH (KDKA)- A 21-year-old Pittsburgh native has been arrested for allegedly selling marijuana through the mail. For four months, the Allegheny County Police Narcotics Unit has been investigating...
View ArticleLuxury Apartment Boom Worries Longtime Residents
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – In many ways it’s a dream come true for the city of Pittsburgh, a massive construction boom in luxury apartment buildings accommodating a new professional class of young workers....
View ArticleGoogle Celebrates 10 Years In Pittsburgh, Credited With Revitalizing East End
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Google Pittsburgh started 10 years ago with just two engineers working out of a downtown office. In those10 years, moving from Carnegie Mellon University to Bakery Square, there’s...
View ArticlePublic Wi-Fi Coming To Larimer, East Liberty Area
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s been 10 years since Mayor Bob O’Connor helped Pittsburgh get onto the ‘information highway’ with the installation of free Wi-Fi in Downtown Pittsburgh and a vision of it going...
View ArticleAffordable Housing Scarce As Region Attracts New Jobs & Residents
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — When new businesses come to this region like the Shell cracker plant or existing companies expand like Google in Bakery Square, you know there’s a need for more housing. “Lots of...
View ArticleSome Embracing Hot Temperatures, Enjoy Beach Party At Bakery Square
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The sweltering summer temperatures tend to divide Pittsburghers into two distinct camps: Those who try to escape the heat, and those who embrace it. But with so much happening in...
View ArticleOrganizers Postpone March On Google, Peaceful Prayer Vigil Planned
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The March on Google has been postponed and a peaceful prayer vigil will take its place. Organizers of the rallies scheduled for Saturday in...
View ArticlePeaceful March Celebrates Homewood While Counter-Protesters Gather Outside...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter HOMEWOOD (KDKA) – Officers on horseback were looking to keep the peace near Bakery Square on Saturday, but mostly, it was calm outside the Google offices where...
View ArticleHas The Luxury Apartment Boom Reached Its End In Pittsburgh?
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — For years now, cranes and construction crews have filled the skies of Pittsburgh as huge luxury apartment buildings have shot up in just about...
View ArticleGoogle Announces New Initiative To Increase Digital Skills For The Future
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter LARIMER (KDKA) — Led by Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and elected officials, including Governor Wolf and Mayor Peduto, Google announced its “Grow with Google” initiative...
View ArticleKDKA Investigates: Program To Retrain Miners Over-Promises, Under-Delivers
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It seems like a great program, training unemployed miners and under-employed others at computer coding boot camps. A non-profit, government-aided...
View ArticleCrews Break Ground On Site Of Future Philips Office Building In Bakery Square
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The next phase of Bakery Square is about to get underway. A 200,000-square-foot office building will be constructed across the street from the old...
View ArticleMan Surrenders, Ending Standoff In East Liberty
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man has surrendered after police and the SWAT team surrounded his home in East Liberty on Wednesday afternoon. It all started after 3:30 p.m. at...
View ArticleAbout 80 Contracted Google Employees To Join United Steelworkers Union
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – About 80 contracted Google employees voted to join the United Steelworkers union. The workers voted in favor of unionization at the East Liberty Carnegie Library on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleOfficials Investigating Reported Attempted Abduction In Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Officials are investigating a report of an attempted abduction in Point Breeze. Pittsburgh Police said they were called to the 300 block of North Euclid Avenue on Tuesday for a...
View ArticleHundreds Protest In Bakery Square Over The Death Of George Floyd
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Around 1,000 people protested the death of George Floyd in Bakery Square. Hundreds of demonstrators are currently blocking the intersection of Bakery Square Blvd and Penn Ave. This...
View ArticleThousands Of Protesters Around Pittsburgh And Surrounding Areas Remain...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Saturday marked the eighth straight day of protests across the region. People were in East Liberty, Irwin, Coraopolis, and several other local towns marching against the death of...
View ArticleFinal Civil Saturday Protest Marches Through East End
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – It was another day of peaceful protests in Pittsburgh on Saturday. For the last four months, protesters have taken to the streets of Pittsburgh each Saturday...
View ArticleGoogle Contractor Charged With Labor Violation
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A Google contractor is charged with moving work out of the city after workers voted to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board is prosecuting “HCL” with...
View ArticleNew Restaurants Set To Open In Bakery Square In May
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — New restaurants are getting ready to open in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square. A variety of food will be offered, ranging from classic American to Asian cusines....
View ArticleGoogle Set To Expand Footprint At Bakery Square Offices
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Google is expanding its offices here in Pittsburgh. The company will add three floors to its campus at Bakery Square and bring its lobby down to street level....
View ArticleSheetz Opening Office In Bakery Square
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Sheetz is opening up a 20,000-square-foot office in Pittsburgh. The Altoona-based company will be the first tenant of Bakery Square’s fourth office building...
View ArticleMajor Infrastructure Project To Connect Larimer, Homewood To East End
By: KDKA-TV News Staff PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A major infrastructure project will turn an abandoned road behind Bakery Square into a greenway connecting Larimer and Homewood residents to the East End. The...
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