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Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh

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Formed
  
1946 (1946)

Website
  
www.ura.org

Jurisdiction
  
City of Pittsburgh

Founded
  
1946

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Headquarters
  
200 Ross Street Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Agency executives
  
Robert Rubinstein, Acting Executive Director Kevin Acklin, Chairman

The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) is the City of Pittsburgh’s economic development agency, committed to creating jobs, expanding the City’s tax base, and improving the vitality of businesses and neighborhoods. The URA achieves this mission by assembling, preparing, and conveying sites for major mixed-use developments; and by providing a portfolio of programs that include financing for business location, relocation and expansion, housing construction and rehabilitation, and home purchases and improvements.

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Public Projects

The URA is currently facilitating a number of large-scale real estate developments, including:

  • Almono
  • Bakery Square 2.0
  • Civic Arena Redevelopment
  • East Liberty Transit Center
  • Hunt Armory
  • The Gardens at Market Square
  • SouthSide Works
  • Station Square

    • Impact

    As of 2015, nearly $3 billion in private investment has been leveraged by $336 million in tax increment financing administered by the URA – a leverage ratio of 9 to 1.

    Between 2006 and 2012, the URA:

  • Issued 401 loans/grants totaling $580 million with $80 million of URA investment
  • Invested $348 million in economic development projects, leveraging over a billion dollars in total project costs
  • Leveraged $60 million in tax increment financing (TIF) to create $520 million in total investment
  • Initiated $545 million in housing development projects, creating 4,024 housing units with $138 million of URA investment
  • Provided $9.4 million in loans and grants to rehabilitate 611 housing units and $20.3 million in mortgage loans for the purchase of 422 housing units

    • References

    Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh Wikipedia
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