People
The Hill CDC is committed to the social and economic development of Hill District residents, many of whom have been historically disadvantaged. A variety of programs are offered for business owners, entrepreneurs, aspiring homeowners, creatives and culture workers.
Place
The Hill CDC leads the planning and redevelopment efforts for the neighborhood on behalf of residents and stakeholders of the Hill District. With over $2 Billion of development slated for the area, the Hill CDC is focused on commercial revitalization and affordable homeownership. Equitable outcomes that foster place-keeping and transformative economic investment is the cornerstone of the Hill CDC’s work.
Policy
The Hill CDC is guided by the Greater Hill District Master Plan. This community-endorsed vision establishes fundamental values and development principles that are central to positive activities and healthy neighborhood development. The Hill CDC focuses on land-use policy, social and economic equity, and centering community voice.
Social
📚 One last DEAR before the season wraps up!
Join us for the final DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) community reading experience at Nafasi on Centre. In a world full of distractions, take a few hours to slow down, unplug, and enjoy the simple joy of reading alongside fellow community members.
Bring your favorite book, a lawn chair or blanket, and settle in for an afternoon dedicated to imagination, reflection, and community.
📅 Tuesday, June 16
⏰ 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave.
Whether you`ve attended before or are joining us for the first time, we`d love to see you for this final gathering.
🔗 Register today: nafasioncentre.org/register
📚 One last DEAR before the season wraps up!
Join us for the final DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) community reading experience at Nafasi on Centre. In a world full of distractions, take a few hours to slow down, unplug, and enjoy the simple joy of reading alongside fellow community members.
Bring your favorite book, a lawn chair or blanket, and settle in for an afternoon dedicated to imagination, reflection, and community.
📅 Tuesday, June 16
⏰ 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave.
Whether you`ve attended before or are joining us for the first time, we`d love to see you for this final gathering.
🔗 Register today: nafasioncentre.org/register
👩🏾🎨Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:
“Striking examples include Annie Campbell’s “Pittsburgh Aglow,” a circa-1915 pastel on paper that foregrounds the South Side Slopes’ St. Michael’s Church against a nighttime backdrop of the neighborhood dominated by J&L Steel. Colin Campbell Cooper’s circa-1905 oil painting “Pittsburgh, PA” takes a view from Mount Washington looking across the Mon and toward the Bluff, limning a dirty and dynamic town choked by smoke, crossed by rail lines and dotted by billboards.
And because Pittsburgh has long mythologized its signature industries, here’s a 1951 plaster cast of famed sculptor Frank Vittor’s proposal for the planned Point State Park Fountain: a 100-foot-tall metal sculpture topped by the Paul Bunyanesque character Joe Magarac.
But the exhibit is hardly all valorization. It also includes “Union Station Riot,” an 1877 oil painting contemporaneous with the railroad strike it depicts, and which local artist Martin B. Leisser resourcefully sketched from high in the steeple of St. Philomena’s Church in the Strip District. Below, dozens of tiny figures scramble while tongues of flame dot the smoke engulfing half of this dire nighttime scene.
Virginia Cuthbert’s 1937 oil “Slum Clearance on Ruch’s Hill” suggests that well before the so-called Pittsburgh Renaissance, powerful people were already upending life in the Hill District: In a blasted, treeless landscape, the in-progress demolition by white workmen (witnessed by a Black woman and children) leaves behind half-built walls missing their houses, and stairwells that drop off into thin air, all creating an almost surreal air.”
💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up: https://ow.ly/1pnk50Z6FSG
📰Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/bBtn50Z6FSB
👩🏾🎨Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:
“Striking examples include Annie Campbell’s “Pittsburgh Aglow,” a circa-1915 pastel on paper that foregrounds the South Side Slopes’ St. Michael’s Church against a nighttime backdrop of the neighborhood dominated by J&L Steel. Colin Campbell Cooper’s circa-1905 oil painting “Pittsburgh, PA” takes a view from Mount Washington looking across the Mon and toward the Bluff, limning a dirty and dynamic town choked by smoke, crossed by rail lines and dotted by billboards.
And because Pittsburgh has long mythologized its signature industries, here’s a 1951 plaster cast of famed sculptor Frank Vittor’s proposal for the planned Point State Park Fountain: a 100-foot-tall metal sculpture topped by the Paul Bunyanesque character Joe Magarac.
But the exhibit is hardly all valorization. It also includes “Union Station Riot,” an 1877 oil painting contemporaneous with the railroad strike it depicts, and which local artist Martin B. Leisser resourcefully sketched from high in the steeple of St. Philomena’s Church in the Strip District. Below, dozens of tiny figures scramble while tongues of flame dot the smoke engulfing half of this dire nighttime scene.
Virginia Cuthbert’s 1937 oil “Slum Clearance on Ruch’s Hill” suggests that well before the so-called Pittsburgh Renaissance, powerful people were already upending life in the Hill District: In a blasted, treeless landscape, the in-progress demolition by white workmen (witnessed by a Black woman and children) leaves behind half-built walls missing their houses, and stairwells that drop off into thin air, all creating an almost surreal air.”
💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up: https://ow.ly/1pnk50Z6FSG
📰Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/bBtn50Z6FSB
‼️Happening NOW
The conversation about Inclusionary Zoning cannot be divorced from history. For decades, zoning and land use policies across the United States were used to determine who belonged, who benefited, and who was left behind. Exclusionary Zoning became one of the most effective tools for concentrating wealth and opportunity in some communities while denying it to others.
Inclusionary Zoning should be viewed as a justice-based response to that history. Its purpose is not simply to produce housing units. Its purpose is to ensure that access to thriving neighborhoods, public investment, economic opportunity, and community stability is not reserved only for those with the highest incomes or a particular racial group. If Exclusionary Zoning represented the codification of inequity, Inclusionary Zoning should represent the intentional pursuit of equity.
At today`s City Planning Commission meeting, members will vote on a proposal to make Inclusionary Zoning voluntary. The remedies we pursue to rebuild our communities more equitably should never be optional.
If the City Planning Commission wishes to create *incentives* for developers to produce affordable housing, fine. Incentives have their place. But let us not confuse an incentive-based approach with Inclusionary Zoning.
Pittsburgh deserves bold policies that expand access to opportunity and help address the structural inequities created by decades of public policy. If Exclusionary Zoning was the antithesis of justice, Inclusionary Zoning should be the remedy.
Join or listen to the hearing today and stay engaged. This proposal is expected to advance to Pittsburgh City Council and ultimately the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh for consideration and approval.
Stay tuned.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1KBJfJxP8A
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275113502
‼️Happening NOW
The conversation about Inclusionary Zoning cannot be divorced from history. For decades, zoning and land use policies across the United States were used to determine who belonged, who benefited, and who was left behind. Exclusionary Zoning became one of the most effective tools for concentrating wealth and opportunity in some communities while denying it to others.
Inclusionary Zoning should be viewed as a justice-based response to that history. Its purpose is not simply to produce housing units. Its purpose is to ensure that access to thriving neighborhoods, public investment, economic opportunity, and community stability is not reserved only for those with the highest incomes or a particular racial group. If Exclusionary Zoning represented the codification of inequity, Inclusionary Zoning should represent the intentional pursuit of equity.
At today`s City Planning Commission meeting, members will vote on a proposal to make Inclusionary Zoning voluntary. The remedies we pursue to rebuild our communities more equitably should never be optional.
If the City Planning Commission wishes to create *incentives* for developers to produce affordable housing, fine. Incentives have their place. But let us not confuse an incentive-based approach with Inclusionary Zoning.
Pittsburgh deserves bold policies that expand access to opportunity and help address the structural inequities created by decades of public policy. If Exclusionary Zoning was the antithesis of justice, Inclusionary Zoning should be the remedy.
Join or listen to the hearing today and stay engaged. This proposal is expected to advance to Pittsburgh City Council and ultimately the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh for consideration and approval.
Stay tuned.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1KBJfJxP8A
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275113502
🎨 This Saturday! Join us for Kuumba Korner at Nafasi on Centre.
There`s still time to register for a morning of creativity, community, and hands-on artmaking with practicing artists. Whether you`re an experienced artist or just looking to try something new, all ages are welcome.
📅 Saturday, June 6
⏰ 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave.
Register today: nafasioncentre.org/register
🎨 This Saturday! Join us for Kuumba Korner at Nafasi on Centre.
There`s still time to register for a morning of creativity, community, and hands-on artmaking with practicing artists. Whether you`re an experienced artist or just looking to try something new, all ages are welcome.
📅 Saturday, June 6
⏰ 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave.
Register today: nafasioncentre.org/register
🥕 Reminder for Hill District residents!
Our next Community Food Distribution is coming up on Friday, June 12 at 11:00 AM at the Nafasi on Centre.
Free food will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.
📍 Nafasi on Centre
2145 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
🛍️ Please remember to bring your own tote bag or carry box.
Help us spread the word to neighbors, friends, and family who may benefit from this resource. We hope to see you there!🤎
🥕 Reminder for Hill District residents!
Our next Community Food Distribution is coming up on Friday, June 12 at 11:00 AM at the Nafasi on Centre.
Free food will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.
📍 Nafasi on Centre
2145 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
🛍️ Please remember to bring your own tote bag or carry box.
Help us spread the word to neighbors, friends, and family who may benefit from this resource. We hope to see you there!🤎
💬Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:
“The Pittsburgh Public School board approved a plan that will close nine school buildings, 12 schools and reconfigure the district’s entire footprint over the next few years.
The plan was approved 6-2, with board member Errika Grayson abstaining.
Board members who voted yes were: Dwayne Barker, Eva Diodati, Tawana Cook Purnell, Tracy Reed, Gene Walker and Yael Silk. Board members Devon Taliaferro and Emma Yourd voted no.
‘Tonight’s vote allows us to move forward with implementation of a plan designed to reinvent learning environments, expanded programming, academic support, and stronger opportunities for student success,’ said Superintendent Wayne Walters. ‘At the same time, I’d like to acknowledge that some school communities are experiencing disappointment, uncertainty, and grief.’
No major changes will take place until the 2027-28 school year. However, the district will immediately begin the implementation process, including planning, transition supports, school assignments and facility improvements.
Marimba Milliones, president of the Hill Community Development Corporation, said nearby elementary schools would struggle to absorb Miller’s students and argued that the school should stay open because the district’s enrollment projections do not reflect an increase in neighborhood population over the next few years through the Choice Neighborhoods program.”
💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up! https://mailchi.mp/hilldistrict/weekendroundup-5-30-2026
Read Full Article: https://www.publicsource.org/pps-school-closure-vote/
💬Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:
“The Pittsburgh Public School board approved a plan that will close nine school buildings, 12 schools and reconfigure the district’s entire footprint over the next few years.
The plan was approved 6-2, with board member Errika Grayson abstaining.
Board members who voted yes were: Dwayne Barker, Eva Diodati, Tawana Cook Purnell, Tracy Reed, Gene Walker and Yael Silk. Board members Devon Taliaferro and Emma Yourd voted no.
‘Tonight’s vote allows us to move forward with implementation of a plan designed to reinvent learning environments, expanded programming, academic support, and stronger opportunities for student success,’ said Superintendent Wayne Walters. ‘At the same time, I’d like to acknowledge that some school communities are experiencing disappointment, uncertainty, and grief.’
No major changes will take place until the 2027-28 school year. However, the district will immediately begin the implementation process, including planning, transition supports, school assignments and facility improvements.
Marimba Milliones, president of the Hill Community Development Corporation, said nearby elementary schools would struggle to absorb Miller’s students and argued that the school should stay open because the district’s enrollment projections do not reflect an increase in neighborhood population over the next few years through the Choice Neighborhoods program.”
💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up! https://mailchi.mp/hilldistrict/weekendroundup-5-30-2026
Read Full Article: https://www.publicsource.org/pps-school-closure-vote/
💼 Hill CDC Biz U Small Business Hours are back next week!
Looking for guidance on funding, business planning, operations, marketing, or growing your business? Join us for free one-on-one sessions with our small business support partners.
Next week`s sessions include:
🤝🏾 Neighborhood Community Development Fund
📅 Tuesday, June 9
⏰ 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
💡 University of Pittsburgh Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence
📅 Thursday, June 11
⏰ 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Whether you`re launching a new venture or growing an existing business, these sessions are designed to connect you with the resources and expertise you need to succeed.
📍 Biz U Center at the Hill CDC
🔗 Reserve your spot spot now: hilldistrict.org/booknow
💼 Hill CDC Biz U Small Business Hours are back next week!
Looking for guidance on funding, business planning, operations, marketing, or growing your business? Join us for free one-on-one sessions with our small business support partners.
Next week`s sessions include:
🤝🏾 Neighborhood Community Development Fund
📅 Tuesday, June 9
⏰ 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
💡 University of Pittsburgh Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence
📅 Thursday, June 11
⏰ 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Whether you`re launching a new venture or growing an existing business, these sessions are designed to connect you with the resources and expertise you need to succeed.
📍 Biz U Center at the Hill CDC
🔗 Reserve your spot spot now: hilldistrict.org/booknow
⏰ Reminder: The deadline is approaching!
The Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Lower Hill District redevelopment site is due June 9, 2026.
This opportunity includes approximately 6.82 acres of development-ready land and is seeking one or more developers for projects that contribute to the continued growth of the Lower Hill. Mixed-use and commercial development proposals will be considered.
If you or someone in your network is interested in being part of what`s next for the Hill District, now is the time to act.
📅 Proposal Deadline: June 9, 2026 at 11:59PM
Learn more: https://www.hilldistrict.org/business-opportunities/
Submit your proposal: https://www.ura.org/news/ura-seeking-proposals-for-housing-on-lower-hill-redevelopment-site
⏰ Reminder: The deadline is approaching!
The Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Lower Hill District redevelopment site is due June 9, 2026.
This opportunity includes approximately 6.82 acres of development-ready land and is seeking one or more developers for projects that contribute to the continued growth of the Lower Hill. Mixed-use and commercial development proposals will be considered.
If you or someone in your network is interested in being part of what`s next for the Hill District, now is the time to act.
📅 Proposal Deadline: June 9, 2026 at 11:59PM
Learn more: https://www.hilldistrict.org/business-opportunities/
Submit your proposal: https://www.ura.org/news/ura-seeking-proposals-for-housing-on-lower-hill-redevelopment-site
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