The Six-year Funding Commitment to Support WCDC’s New Strategic Plan Initiatives WILKINSBURG, PA. (November 2019) – The Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation (WCDC) announced today that they have been awarded a six-year, $3 million grant from the...
Newly refurbished building will help anchor Wilkinsburg revitalization WILKINSBURG, PA. — A prominent baker, an elite personal chef for NFL athletes, and a neighborhood salon are among the first wave of tenants to mark the revitalization of downtown Wilkinsburg as...
Interested in learning more about this project? Contact the WCDC today at 412-727-7855 or info@wikinsburgcdc.org It’s not often that a building can inspire the kind of love that millennials usually reserve for Apple...
Expanding a Small Business Alaa Aqra, proprietor of Al’s Fish and Chicken, has operated a small take-out restaurant at the corner of Penn Ave. and Coal St. in Wilkinsburg since 2010. As part of his plans to grow the business, Aqra has plans to upgrade his restaurant’s...
Condo Living Suzanne Nuss saw an opportunity in 736 North Avenue. The c. 1910 building offered a spacious, light-filled unit, with tiger-oak wainscoting in the dining room and other period details. The price was affordable. And it included a garage. Yet the building...
The Art of Creating Space When Dee Briggs was looking for a building of a certain size and scale where she could create her art, she found it and more in Wilkinsburg. The former firehouse offered light-filled studio space on the ground floor and roomy living quarters...
