Friends Greens East Liberty Parking Lots

Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest in cooperation with the Pittsburgh Parking Authority is adding landscaping to five Pittsburgh Parking Authority surface lots in East Liberty.  91 trees and over 1,000 shrubs will be planted throughout the lots. According to the USDA Forest Service’s STRATUM analysis of Pittsburgh’s street trees, on average, “a single tree intercepts about 1,400 gallons of rainfall annually.” 

The project is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2010.  The lots are located at Sheridan & Harvard,  Sheridan & Kirkwood, Harvard & Beatty, Penn Circle Northwest, and Tamello & Beatty 

FPUF was awarded $274,393 by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  The funding was made available through the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority to support green infrastructure projects across the state of Pennsylvania. 

Explore these gigapans by double clicking the large photo to zoom in, or by clicking the small snapshops.  Thank you to the Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab and the Fine Foundation for the Gigapan technology!  Learn more at Gigapan.org.

Explore these gigapans by double clicking the large photo to zoom in, or by clicking the small snapshops.  Thank you to the Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab and the Fine Foundation for the Gigapan technology!  Learn more at Gigapan.org.

 Sheridan and Harvard lot before planting: