Left: Mark Fatla, Darlene Harris and Ruth Ann Dailey cut the ribbon and celebrated the new planters on the Tripoli Street Bridge. (Photo courtesy CASGED) Last week, the Community Alliance of Spring Garden/East Deutschtown made their neighborhood a little more colorful and a little more united. Plant...

New Hope United Methodist Church sold this unused building to the Community Alliance of Spring Garden / East Deutschtown last winter. (Photo / Kelly Thomas) They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and you shouldn’t judge a building by its façade, either. If you judged, for instance, the former...

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A truckload of paper bound for the shredder en route to The Paper Exchange's shredding facility in Spring Garden. This green business recycles 98 percent of all materials. (Photo courtesy The Paper Exchange) Each month, The Chronicle will feature a profile of a green business. Last month: Underwood ...

Team Laminates, Co. and the Children's Museum are requesting proposals to install public art and a garden in this lot at the corner of Vinial Street and Spring Garden Avenue. (Photo courtesy Children's Museum) The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh along with Team Laminates is accepting proposals to be...

Above: Spring Garden Avenue was closed Monday afternoon after a house collapsed, leaving one worker injured. Below: Work crews finished the demolition work before more of the unstable building could collapse. (Photos/Kelly Thomas) The roof of 839 Spring Garden Ave. collapsed around noon Monday while...

Vera Dereskavich has been going to St. Michaels All Angels Lutheran Church for more than 70 years, and for her the place is filled with fond memories. She remembers a bustling hub of activity, with everything from girl scouts and weddings, to neighborhood events. For more than 120 years, the Church ...