Friendship Development Executive Director, Jeffrey Dorsey, speaks at the groundbreaking in front of Rob Stephany, URA Executive Director, Emma Lucas-Darby LCCC board and professor from Carlow University, Charlie Batch, LCCC board member and Steeler, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Howard Slaughter, Executive Director of LCCC.

Yesterday, Wednesday, April 16, Friendship Development Associates, Landmark Community Capital Corporation, the URA and many other partners celebrated the groundbreaking for 5000 Penn, three townhomes nine years in the planning. This $800,000 development, on the corner of Penn Avenue and Gross Street, will bring loft-style housing to the heart of the Penn Avenue Arts Initiative.

For more information on the groundbreaking, read the post gazette article, or what Pop City has to say!