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Article: Kuhn's scales back plans for Hill grocery store
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- November 4, 2008
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Kuhn's has nixed a 100,000-square-foot retail shopping center
anchored by a full-service grocery store in the Hill District,
Pittsburgh's development chief said Monday.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority is scheduled to decide Nov. 13
whether to sell land on Centre Avenue to locally based Kuhn's or St.
Louis-based discount chain Sav-A-Lot, as both vie to build the first
Hill District grocery store in nearly 30 years.
"(Kuhn's) is proposing a stand-alone grocery store with a
suburban-style setback and a field of parking along Centre Avenue,"
said Rob Stephany, executive director of the Urban Redevelopment
Authority.
Kuhn's original proposal envisioned converting the AUBA Triangle
Shops into ...