Boykin’s Bar-B-Q. Kay Boys’ Club. Hamm’s barber shop and Chicken on the Hill.

Those are just a few places once operating in the Hill District that Michelle Sandige listed on Friday morning — as a crowd of longtime residents nodded knowingly.

Most are now closed or long gone, much like the site where the group gathered — formerly home to a public housing complex demolished years ago after it fell into disrepair, said Ms. Sandige, chief community affairs officer at the Housing Authority for the City of Pittsburgh.

Friday morning marked a new chapter for the site, and the broader Hill District: Residents and city officials gathered to celebrate the completion of The Reed, a 123-unit development at the intersection of Reed and Roberts streets in the Hill District. The complex is the first p

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