New Pennley Place
5601 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206-6103
(412) 362-2040
Pennley@communitybuilders.org
The Community Builders is leading the $23 million multi-phase redevelopment
effort of the former Pennley Park Apartments in Pittsburgh's East
Liberty Neighborhood. The Pennley Park Apartments were originally
construction in 1965 as a series of eight mid- and high-rise apartment
buildings situated on a 7.25 acre "superblock" site created
as part of the sweeping urban renewal that reshaped East Liberty.
Through the years the Pennley complex came to be widely perceived
as overly dense, deteriorated, unsafe and undesirable. Substantial
mortage deliquencies, deferred maintenance, and high vacancy rates
led to HUD's announcment of impending foreclosure which promped
a call for a community-minded owner to take responsibility.
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