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Developers sign lease with Nakama that could jump-start Federal/North project

By Thomas Olson, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, January 27, 2012
Last updated: 1:11 pm


Developers of a long-blighted North Side block at North Avenue and Federal Street said today they signed a lease with Nakama restaurant, which should help jump-start development there.

Nakama, the popular Japanese steak house and sushi bar on the South Side, will take 5,000 square feet in the Masonic Building at North and Reddour Street, said co-developer Craig Tottino.

"They are viewed as an anchor for the Federal/North project," said Tottino, co-owner of Collaborative Ventures, Mt. Lebanon. The firm and Zukin Development, Philadelphia, formed Allegheny City Development Group, the joint venture that's developing the block.

The limestone and brick Masonic Building sits next to the Garden Theatre, a shuttered adult movie house. Developers have yet to secure a tenant for that space, said Tottino.

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