The Pittsburgh neighborhood of Manchester now has two registered community organizations [RCOs], a designation that will allow the groups to weigh in on a planned $740 million development nearby.
News of the $740 million Esplanade development on the North Shore led to increased interest in obtaining the RCO designation, which guarantees a meeting between community members and developers. In a letter dated Jan. 9, Pittsburgh’s Department of City Planning approved an application from Manchester Neighbors, a group that applied for the designation last year to push for a community impact study and deeper affordable housing in connection with the North Shore project.
The historic, majority Black neighborhood gained its first RCO last year when the planning department approved the Manchester Chateau Partnership Alliance…