January 4, 2015
Positive change is happening throughout the Borough of Wilkinsburg, a community located adjacent to Pittsburgh, Pa. In 2005, Wilkinsburg was named one of 22 Pennsylvania Blueprint Communities (BC), an FHLBank Pittsburgh training and planning initiative. Since then, it’s been full steam ahead for Wilkinsburg. BC team members have been busy focusing on several major initiatives: restoring and building homes, creating incentives for new business and tax programs to make it easier to purchase abandoned and delinquent properties, developing a comprehensive community development plan, creating a summer youth basketball program and establishing a monthly community newsletter.