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Judge overturns zoning approval for new Lawrenceville food hall plan on Butler Street

A Lawrenceville couple's plan to turn this circa-1900 building at 4609 Butler Street into a new food hall for the neighborhood has been rejected by an judge in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas over parking.

Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph James has ruled that the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustments “improperly determined” and “incorrectly granted” the approvals for a plan to renovate an aging Butler Street warehouse building into a new Lawrence Food Hall.

The decision was registered on the last day of May more than six months after a nearby business, the Abbey on Butler, joined by a neighborhood resident, filed a legal challenge against the plan by Lawrenceville residents Brett Minarik, Katie LaForest and Phoebe Fraser to establish a new food hall in the long underused 6,000-square-foot building at 4609 Butler Street.

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