Monday, December 10, 2012
The site of a vacant mansion on Beaver Grade Road has been purchased by developers.
Developers have torn down a long-abandoned 1920s-era mansion along Beaver Grade Road in Moon Township. The Pittsburgh-based Aloe Brothers LLC bought the former Gundelfinger mansion at 971 Beaver Grade Road on Sept. 28 for $1, according to Allegheny County property records. Crews have begun tearing down the dilapidated home, which sat on 7.3 acres of wooded land on Beaver Grade Road. The firm purchased the property from the Global Country of World Peace, an Iowa-based meditation group that acquired the house in 2005 for $595,000, according to property records. Moon planning director Adam McGurk said Aloe Brothers has not yet submitted plans for the property to the township. The Global Country of World Peace intended to use the mansion as …
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Friday, September 7, 2012
A Mars Township developer said coal deposits prevented him from building garden-style apartments on the site of an abandoned Moon Township home.
Thomas Janidas said the bureaucratic hurdles were just too high to jump. Janidas, of the Mars Township-based R&D Holdings Inc., intended to develop a seven-acre property along Beaver Grade Road, tearing down a home that has sat vacant for half a decade and constructing a group of apartments and mixed-use commercial storefronts in its place. But Janidas said Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regulations stonewalled the plan. DEP officials said R&D Holdings was not able to remove deposits of coal beneath the property without obtaining a mining permit. "It's foolish," Janidas said. "We're not in the mining business. We called it nuisance coal and to us it just didn't make sense." And without mining that coal, Janidas …
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
A vacated historic home with a colorful past may be demolished in favor of garden-style apartments and new commercial space.
Developers have unveiled plans to construct a cluster of buildings for residential and commercial use at the site of an abandoned mansion on Beaver Grade Road. The Mars Township-based R&D Holdings Inc. has placed an offer on the 7-acre, Gundelfinger estate on Beaver Grade Road and is filing requests for a series of building-code variances through Moon Township. Thomas Janidas, of R&B Holdings, said the company hopes to break ground on the eight-unit development by spring of 2013, but the discovery of coal underneath the historic property could delay the project. R&B Holdings' offer on the land is contingent upon approval from both the township and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Janidas said the company must …
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4:20 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
This property will no doubt be sold again since it lies within the so called Carnot overlay area. As soon as the people that bought it show up at the Twp. building and request a building permit will be read the riot act as to what they need to do to comply. Any renovations will be required to be held to those requirements in the overlay area. That is why you see all the vacant buildings on … more ›