Sunday, February 10, 2013
ALT is purchasing the 180-acre property in Richland Township for $1.4 million. It plans to protect more than 80 percent of the land, which is made up of ponds, streams, meadows and woodlands.
The pot of money to buy the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property in Richland Township just got a whole lot bigger. The Allegheny Land Trust—which is under contract to buy the 180-acre property on Bakerstown Road in Richland Township—announced this week that it is the recipient of a $509,500 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. ALT contracted with Legacy Landings LLC, the current owner, to buy the property for $1.4 million and already has raised thousands of dollars toward that goal. Legacy Landings is working now to clean up the property of dilapidated greenhouses and other structures, some of which have hazardous materials in them like asbestos. The land trust plans to permanently protect more …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Located near the border with Cranberry, the property has many springs and spring seeps and mature hardwoods.
The Allegheny Land Trust recently announced receipt from RT Partners LP an 88-acre gift of wooded land in Marshall Township adjacent to the Venango Trails residential development currently under construction on the border with Cranberry Township. The property, at the headwaters of the Brush Creek watershed, has many springs and spring seeps and mature hardwoods. “One of the oak trees is so large that it would take three adults to wrap their arms completely around its four foot diameter trunk”, said Roy Kraynyk, the land trust’s Land Protection Director. The land will be available to the public for non-motorized passive recreation such as hiking. This is especially interesting in this case because a section of the historic Venango Trail …
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Community is raising funds to help pay the $1.4 million purchase price of the 180-acre site on Bakerstown Road in Richland Township.
As the community rallies to raise $1.4 million to buy the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower property, workers have begun to clean up the site's dilapidated asbestos-laced greenhouses along Bakerstown Road in Richland. The property's current owner—Legacy Landings LLC of Florida—has contracted with Mid-Atlantic Environment Consultants of Gibsonia and Agresta Construction and Demolition of Philadelphia for the cleanup. The nonprofit Allegheny Land Trust has a contract to buy the 180-acre site at 4136 Bakerstown Road. Its vision is to build a solar farm on the 10-acre brownfield portion of the land where decaying greenhouses are now located. About 150 acres would be permanent green space. That solar farm could generate power for a small commercial …
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Allegheny Land Trust is asking the Richland community to raise 10 percent of the $1.4 million needed to buy the land on Bakerstown Road.
Allegheny Land Trust launched a community fundraising drive Wednesday to raise $1.4 million to buy the deteriorating property once owned by Pittsburgh Cut Flower in Richland Township. The Dream: Saving the 180-acre site from two decades of deterioration and transforming it into green space and a solar farm. The Goal: Raising $1.4 million to buy the property on Bakerstown Road. The Plan: Soliciting the Richland community to raise one-tenth of that amount—$140,000— to match foundation and public grants. First in line to donate to the local cause was Erie Insurance Group. Owner John Pasquinelli of Pasquinelli Insurance Agency and Vice President Leah Micholas were on hand to present a check for $2,500 at the unveiling of a fundraising status …
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Linda J
10:45 am on Saturday, January 19, 2013
Thank Heaven, that's 88 acres that won't ever beome a parking lot. If only more land around Cranberry became inaccessible to "land developers". The town itself is not really a "town", it's an eyesore of parking lots and shopping centers strung together by a road that can barely handle the traffic it engenders... more ›