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At 4609 Butler Street, a building that once housed a theater and an auto shop faced a new obstacle: parking for a proposed food hall. Strong Towns reports that Brett Minarik, Phoebe Fraser and Adam Harvey set out to revive the long-vacant Pittsburgh property in 2017. Their idea was Lawrence Hall, a place where smaller restaurateurs could get started and neighbors could gather.
According to Strong Towns, parking mandates and a shortfall of just a few spaces held up the plan for seven years. The striking detail is that the obstacle was not a lack of room inside the 6,000-square-foot building, but a requirement for spaces outside it. The account mentions a hoped-for 2021 opening, yet does not establish whether Lawrence Hall opened or how the parking issue was resolved. What happened to the parking requirement?
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