HAYS (PITTSBURGH)

'Hays' is a neighborhood in southeastern Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh City Council District 5. It occupies ZIP codes 15227, 15207, and 15236.
The neighborhood was formerly the site of an ammunition plant, built by the U.S. Navy in 1942. The plant was transferred to the Army in 1966, and during its heyday between World War II and the Vietnam War employed more than a thousand people. In 1970 the plant was put on standby status until disposition in 1988. In 1993 the site was donated to the Urban Redevelopment Authority.^[1]
Hays encompasses the area known as Hays Woods, a 635+ acre woodland, the largest undeveloped tract of land in the city of Pittsburgh (larger even than Frick Park).^[2] The future of a 613 acre parcel of land including Hays Woods is uncertain, as developer Charles Betters' application to strip mine the area was declined. Still, the developer's plan for a thoroughbred racetrack and housing development called Pittsburgh Palisades Park may come to fruition.^[3]

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Surrounding communities

Reference

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Surrounding communities

Arlington, Baldwin Borough, Lincoln Place, New Homestead, Saint Clair, West Homestead, West Mifflin

Reference

★ Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait, Toker, Franklin, , , University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8229-5434-6

★ Census: Pittsburgh

Notes

1. The Brownfields Center: Hays Case Study
2. Hays Woods
3. Racetrack hopefuls weighing options after state denies strip-mining permit

External links

★ Hays Neighborhood Map

See also

List of Pittsburgh neighborhoods