Pittsburgh City Council
Council approves $134,831 to replace collapsed retaining wall.
Written by Amy Whipple
After years of advocacy, residents of lower Dunmore Street in Lincoln-Lemington will once again have a safe retaining wall.
Council voted to proceed with transferring $134,831 to remove and replace a collapsed retaining wall there.
According to a May 2025 investigation by WPXI, affected neighbors have spent years asking the city to fix the 3-foot-high wall. The mayor’s office said the wall is on private property and not the city’s responsibility. WPXI found conflicting property records.
The city also said the lower half of the street—which part of the wall fell into—is a private road. Pittsburgh has more than 700 such undedicated streets.
Council Member Khari Mosley of Point Breeze North, who represents Lincoln-Lemington, told WPXI “These kinds of situations take determination, collaboration and imagination.”
The money for the new wall will come from the East End Community and Economic Development Fund. The fund is part of the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Neighborhood Initiatives Fund Program, designed to advance projects in the city’s neighborhood business districts.
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