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Allegheny County goes after private help for parks
Friday, September 28, 2007By Michael A. Fuoco
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato yesterday unveiled plans to create a nonprofit board to raise private funds for the county's nine regional parks and to establish public-private partnerships to operate some of the parks' major attractions and amenities.
The board, to be named within two months, initially will be funded with $1 million from the county's capital budget. Mr. Onorato pledged to match dollar-for-dollar with county funds any private monies the nonprofit organization raises. He put no cap on how much the county would match.
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Onorato Forms Nonprofit For County's Parks
Thursday, September 27, 2007KDKA
Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato laid out his plans for the county's parks.
Officials say they don?t have the resources to keep up the parks the way they had in the past. As a result, Onorato says he?s forming a nonprofit to raise money to maintain the parks.
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Penguins off thin ice as arena lease is signed
Friday, September 21, 2007By Mark Belko
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
You can officially breathe a sigh of relief, Penguins fans. Your favorite hockey team is formally locked into Pittsburgh until June 30, 2040.
The Penguins and the city-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority signed a lease for the new $290 million arena Tuesday, formalizing the agreement reached in March to keep the team in Pittsburgh.
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Changemakers: Dan Onorato
September 19, 2007By: Abby Mendelson
Pop City
"Transformational thinking," he was saying.
If, following Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum, that being County Executive is a bully pulpit, then affable, articulate Dan Onorato is in his element. Sure, there’s a lot of political jaw-boning, and log-rolling, to running a 1.2-million-person county, the second largest in the state, but there’s also making people re-think their environs – a kind of political Dr. Phil.
full story...Tax credits lower costs of living Downtown
Thursday, September 13, 2007By Mark Belko
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People who want to live Downtown but can't afford the expensive condominiums or steep rents that now dominate the market finally may have an option.
It's a 100-year-old building on Seventh Street in the heart of Pittsburgh's Cultural District.
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Onorato calls for changes to casino garage
Thursday, September 13, 2007By Mark Belko
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pressure appears to be building on the developer of the North Shore casino to make changes to mitigate the impact a massive parking garage will have on the city skyline.
Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato said yesterday he believes changes should be made so the garage "blends into the community" and doesn't dominate the landscape.
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