Tamello-Beatty Parking Lot Planted by Caitlin Lenahan

www.pittsburghforest.org/pennvest09 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.” (www.pittsburghforest.org/stratum )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.

You can see other landscaped parking lots here: gigapan.org/profiles/24877/ In this image, you can see many other changes happening in the East Liberty neighborhood, which is undergoing redevelopment and welcoming many new businesses to the area.