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Manchester, a majority-Black neighborhood in the North Side, could see major changes in the next few years as the planned, three-quarter billion dollar Esplanade development takes shape. Two Manchester groups applied to be formally recognized as voices of the neighborhood through the city's Registered Community Organizations Program. One group has been approved while the other still awaits the city's decision.

Learn more about the groups’ efforts to get acknowledged and walk through a timeline of events that led to one group getting recognition — so far.

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One Manchester group ‘waiting for word’ after another got the city’s official nod

The Esplanade development plan spurred two organizations to file with Pittsburgh’s Registered Community Organization Program, and a neighbors group that has seen its bid shelved now plans to “agitate, agitate, agitate.”

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