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By David Rullo | Staff Writer
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he Jewish Association on Aging announced on Oct. 10 plans to redevelop its property on Browns Hill Road in Squirrel Hill in a new partnership with Continental Real Estate Co. The site currently hosts AHAVA Memory Center, Weinberg Village, and in separate buildings, The New Riverview and Weinberg Terrace. The Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was also housed on the property before closing in 2021. The agency told residents and their families earlier this week that, as part of the redevelopment plans, Weinberg Village will close. JAA Board Chair Lou Plung said that some job losses will accompany the shutdown, although the number of employees affected by the closure wasn’t available at press time. The JAA will help its Weinberg Village residents find other housing options. “During this period of replacement of Weinberg Village, we’re going to seek to have those residents in appropriate facilities, either ours, where we have space, or others, at their discretion,” Plung said.
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The project is estimated to take threeand-a-half years to complete, at which time those former Weinberg Village residents will be offered the opportunity to move into the new facility. “It is a temporary displacement,” Plung said. Plung is excited about the future of the campus but understands how disruptive the transition will be. “I’m going to be honest: It’s painful,” he said. “It’s painful for our professionals that are working there. It’s painful for the residents, for the families. I feel it. I know a lot of those residents and I feel bad, and yet we also know that if we don’t do something the building is going to deteriorate and we cannot continue to provide good services.” AHAVA Memory Center and The New Riverview will both remain open during the redevelopment process. Weinberg Terrace, located on Bartlett Street in Squirrel Hill, will continue to operate as usual. The goal of the redevelopment, Plung said, is to create an “urban senior village” on the site. Please see JAA, page 10
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Chief Justice Max Baer standing to be recognized on Sept. 7, 2022, at an event announcing the naming of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
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he chief justice of the state Supreme Court has died. Max Baer, who was just two months short of a December retirement, died unexpectedly on Sept. 30 at his home in Pittsburgh’s South Hills. He was 74. “[Baer] loved helping children,” Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht said. “He had an acute, very strong interest in the welfare of children. And he really revolutionized child welfare and juvenile dependency in the state of Pennsylvania — he was constantly at work and constantly energetic.” Baer, who was Jewish, grew up in Dormont, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971 and received a law degree from Duquesne University in 1975. Baer served as a deputy in the state attorney general’s office from 1975 to 1980, then worked in private practice Please see Justice, page 10
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