One Manchester group ‘waiting for word’ after another got the city’s official nod

Cars line up for pick up outside of Manchester Academic Charter School [MACS] on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in the North Side. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) The Esplanade development plan spurred two organizations to file with Pittsburgh’s Registered Community Organization Program, and a neighbors group that has seen its bid shelved now plans to “agitate, agitate, agitate.” & “PublicSource is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving the Pittsburgh region. Sign up for our free newsletters.” by Eric Jankiewicz and Rich Lord, PublicSource January 7, 2025 Toward the end of a Thursday night meeting held in a house on an alley in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood, Stanley Lowe tapped on a box of letters. “We’ve got to educate these people,” Lowe suggested to seven board members of Manchester Neighbors. The letters were addressed to residents of the neighborhood, and their intent was to alert those households that the area’s affordability could be affected by an impending $740 million development — and to enlist them to “make good trouble,” as Lowe said, quoting the late civil rights leader and Congressman John Lewis. “Agitate, agitate, agitate,” he added, channeling abolitionist Frederick Douglas. “When you’re talking about this, you have to make a choice, either move...