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Article: SEA pays $5.5 million for synagogue's Hill property
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- Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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- March 21, 2008
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The only synagogue serving Downtown will move for the second time
in 50 years, to accommodate a new hockey arena in Pittsburgh.
The city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority voted Thursday to
pay $5.5 million to buy and relocate the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-
Beth Jacob Synagogue, the last of 13 buildings the authority needed
to acquire before building a $290 million arena to be used by the
Pittsburgh Penguins.
The SEA plans to demolish the Jewish Orthodox synagogue in June.
The congregation agreed to move out by May 15, said Mary Conturo,
SEA executive director.
"This is the second time that the Jewish community has worked
with the authority and agreed to relocate the synagogue for the
renewal ...
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