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Article: Kuhn's has inside track on Hill District grocery store
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- November 13, 2008
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Kuhn's must solidify plans to build an $8.5 million grocery store
in the Hill District under an exclusive three-month deal that the
Urban Redevelopment Authority's board approved today.
The decision ends months of competition between Kuhn's and St.
Louis-based Sav-A-Lot to build a grocery store on URA land on Centre
Avenue and receive $2 million in subsidies from the authority and
the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Hill has not had a grocery store in nearly three decades.
Councilwoman Tonya Payne, a URA board member who represents the
Hill, said residents wanted Kuhn's ...