The article says the owner of the property did not pay the property taxes. The leaseholder (SnS owner)was paying the rent as agreed, which includes the property taxes. It was the landlord who never sent the tax payments in.

I’m guessing this enabled the tenant to get out of the lease. If they really wanted to keep the store open they could have worked something out with the landlord.

They were heard in multiple neighborhoods and boroughs.

Heard them

I am one of those people-- moved here last January with a $3/hr pay cut because it still made sense coming from New England. The housing bubble is definitely affecting the area currently, but not quite as hard as other areas.

They're not all bad. Right now isn't really moving season. Prices aren't the worst, and if you're coming from virtually anywhere else they're probably cheaper.

You got Stamooli Bros. and Penn Macaroni across the street

Absolutely

Sonny's in Bloomfield

Costco has full time clothes folders.

Didn’t hear this one but last night heard 3 or 4 around 1:30 am. Sounded like a cannon or something. More than a gunshot but not quite a firework.

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Must not be much of a big deal. All of the local police / fire radios are not saying much. The only thing even remotely close is some reports of fireworks.

Agreed. Walking down that block of Smithfield I couldn't help feel sad looking up at the broken windows I used to look out of as a kid. Even if people have complaints with the Target, it's still a net positive.

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Yup heard it near gilkeson rd. Then 10ish minutes later heard sirens but didn't see where they went.

Heard all over Brookline per fb

We don’t need to hear about Optimus Prime’s social life

I'm usually there Saturday afternoons. I don't go there very often, so it might have changed since the last time I was there. It doesn't help that most of the customers in there at that time are over 70, so they're probably just playing to their target audience.

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I literally just came here to try to see if anyone else heard that, was that for sure a transformer ?

Just heard 3 back to back from Dormont/Mt Lebo area

Heard it on the Lebo side of McFarland. 4 or 5 times now.

It used to be a lot cheaper until everyone moved here and turned it in to a hipster commune.

Heard it all the way in Beechview/Dormont.

True. I was a union organizer at an R1 university and consulted with librarians there who were determined to win either a union or faculty status. (Because of state law if they got faculty status they would not be able to form a union because the law requires all faculty of all ranks to form one union. So adjuncts also can’t form their own union there, which absolutely sucks.)