As Pittsburgh Developers Restart Projects, Future Worries Loom

ACTION-Housing was building 35 affordable apartments in Lower Lawrenceville and preparing to rehab the old Squirrel Hill Theater and the Hill’s Centre Avenue YMCA, when everything stopped. This article explains how developers and construction companies are adjusting safe work practices as construction resumes during a world-wide pandemic.

Construction resumes after being stopped for over a month.Financing challenges and in-demand contractors are among the challenges facing Pittsburgh-area developers as construction resumes amid a historic economic downturn. PublicSource this week reached out to 16 development pros — both for-profit and nonprofit — with work in Pittsburgh supported by the Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA]…