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VOL. 94, NO. 14, 8/15/20

BALLOT BOXESUSPS warns states about tight dead-lines for mail-in ballots. Page WA-6

NO RESERVATIONSDespite state orders, some restaurantsopen at full capacity. Page WA-12

To view our complete coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, go to https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/coronavirus

9th Circuitends Calif.ban onlarge gunmagazines Subhead goes herey

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The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Athree-judge panel of the 9th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals on Fridaythrew out California’s ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines,saying the law violates the U.S.Constitution’s protection of theright to bear firearms.

“Even well-intentioned lawsmust pass constitutional muster,”appellate Judge Kenneth Lee wrotefor the panel’s majority. Califor-nia’s ban on magazines holdingmore than 10 bullets “strikes at thecore of the Second Amendment —the right to armed self-defense.”

He noted that California passedthe law “in the wake of heart-wrenching and highly publicizedmass shootings,” but he said thatisn’t enough to justify a ban whosescope “is so sweeping that half ofall magazines in America are nowunlawful to own in California.”

California Attorney GeneralXavier Becerra’s office said it is re-viewing the decision and that he“remains committed to using ev-ery tool possible to defend Califor-nia’s gun safety laws and keep ourcommunities safe.”

Gun owners cannot immediatelyrush to buy high-capacity maga-zines because a stay issued by thelower court judge remains in place.

But Mr. Becerra did not say if thestate would seek a further delay ofFriday’s ruling to prevent an imme-diate buying spree if the lower courtjudge ends that restriction. Gungroups estimated that more than amillion high-capacity ammunitionmagazines may have legally floodedinto into California during a one-week window before the judgestayed his ruling three years ago.

Hazelwoodwill havea breweryonce again

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By Bob Batz Jr.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Not many people know that thecity neighborhood of Hazelwoodhas a brewery. It’s a four-storybrick building built in 1905 wherepeople used to make and sell Hazel-wood Famous Beer and, later, afterProhibition, Derby Brewing Co.’sMoerlein lager and pilsner. Itclosed in 1938, and the structurehas since housed other businessesincluding a demolition companythat did not demolish it.

By next year, beer is to again bebrewed on-site as well as consumedat the building at 5007-5111 Lytle St.

The Progress Fund plans to re-open it as a brewery. Make thatthree breweries, each with its ownseparate brewing spaces on thefirst floor, viewable through glasswindows on the street. They’llshare a big beer garden on theother side, by the main entrance.Each brewery will serve its ownbeers and share a third-floor bararea and seating area, as well as arooftop deck, with views of the

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By Lacretia WimbleyPittsburgh Post-Gazette

Property crimes, violence andother illegal activity across Pitts-burgh saw a significant decreasein the first six months of the year,but June trends show a climb innumbers, according to Pitts-burgh police.

While homicides have alwaysfluctuated, a decline in overallcrime in Pittsburgh continued inthe midst of the coronavirus pan-demic. City police reported lastweek that Pittsburgh saw a 16.4%decrease in overall crime betweenJan. 1 and June 30 compared withthe same time last year. Crime inPittsburgh has seen a 24.7% de-crease overall compared with thepast five years across all six policezones, city police spokeswomanCara Cruz reported.

A portion of the data was

released from the city police’s an-nual Uniform Crime Report. Part Icrimes are broken into two maincategories: violent crimes andproperty crimes. The former in-cludes murder, rape, robbery andaggravated assault. Violent crimessaw a 15% decrease in the first sixmonths of 2020, compared with anaverage from the past five years,the report stated. Property crimes(such as burglary, theft and arson)were cut nearly in half over thepast 5½ years.

City police said they remainalert to changing crime patterns.

“As we have seen, some busi-nesses closed temporarily, othershave remained closed, and manyresidents remained home in an ef-fort to slow the pandemic,” Ms.Cruz said in an emailed statement.“While the Bureau doesn’t ascribe

Crime down in first half of year but up in June

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June crime: up from May, down from 2019

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Part II: all other nonmiscellaneous offenses

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The Associated Press Subhead goes hereyqdmPARIS — New flare-ups of

COVID-19 are disrupting the peaksummer vacation season acrossmuch of Europe, where authori-ties in some countries are reim-posing restrictions on travelers,closing nightclubs again, banningfireworks displays and expandingmask orders even in chic resortareas.

“Unfortunately, this virusdoesn’t play ball,” British Trans-port Secretary Grant Shapps toldSky News.

The surges have spread alarm

across Europe, which sufferedmightily during the spring but ap-peared in recent months to havelargely tamed the coronavirus inways that the U.S., with its vauntedscientific prowess and the extratime to prepare, cannot seem tomanage. The continent’s hardest-hit countries — Britain, Italy,France and Spain — have recordedabout 140,000 deaths in all.

In addition to clubs and alcohol-fueled street parties, large familygatherings — usually aboundingwith hugs and kisses — have beencited as a source of new outbreaksin several European countries.

A new public awareness cam-paign by Spain’s Canary Islandsdepicts a family gathering for agrandfather’s birthday, with peo-ple taking off masks and embrac-ing. The grandfather ends up in ahospital bed with COVID-19.

In France, thousands of vaca-tioning Britons scrambled to re-turn home Friday to avoid havingto self-quarantine for 14 days fol-lowing Britain’s decision to reim-pose restrictions on France be-cause of a resurgence of infectionsthere. Ferries added extra tripsback to England, and trains wererunning out of space.

Some of the toughest new mea-sures were announced in Spain,which has recorded almost 50,000confirmed COVID-19 cases in thepast 14 days.

Health Minister Salvador Illa,after an emergency meeting withregional leaders, said nightclubsnationwide were ordered to close.Visits to nursing homes will belimited to one person a day foreach resident for only one hour.

“We can’t be undisciplined,”Mr. Illa said.

In Italy, also faced with a

Virus flare-ups in Europe force club closings, mask orders

Volant farmer to speak at DNCon why he’s switching to Biden

Steph Chambers/Post-GazetteRick Telesz, a Lawrence County farmer and 2016 Trump voter who says his third-generation family farmhas taken a hit from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, walks his property Wednesday in Volant.

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By Julian RouthPittsburgh Post-Gazette

A Lawrence County farmerwho voted for Donald Trumpin 2016 and says the presi-dent’s trade war has threat-ened the existence of his third-generation family farm willspeak at the Democratic Na-tional Convention which be-gins Monday.

Rick Telesz, a 62-year-olddairy and soybean farmer whoruns Telesz Family Farm inVolant, was tapped by the

Democrats to speak as part oftheir convention program high-lighting Americans from differ-ent backgrounds and politicalaffiliations across the U.S.

A registered Democrat whosaid he’s never voted a straightticket, Mr. Telesz voted forBarack Obama twice before cast-ing a ballot for Mr. Trump in2016, convinced that the real es-tate businessman would “drainthe swamp” and “look after theworking man.”

“He’s a hell of a salesman,”Mr. Telesz said.

“And a tremendous con man,”he added. “He conned me.”

Insisting that his farm hasbeen shaken by retaliatory Chi-nese tariffs that were a directconsequence of the president’strade war, Mr. Telesz said he willvote for Democrat Joe Biden thisNovember.

Mr. Telesz is expected to ad-dress the virtual conventionand make the case that Mr.Trump, over four years, “hasnot done anything positive” for

Two yearson, grandjury’s impacton diocesestill lingers

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By Peter SmithPittsburgh Post-Gazette

Two years after a landmarkgrand jury report told a sordid his-tory of sexual abuse by priests andits cover-up by their superiors, theRoman Catholic Diocese of Pitts-burgh is still coming to terms withits impact.

Just this week, 28 people filedlawsuits or notices of intent to sue inAllegheny County Court of Com-mon Pleas, while a local lay groupissued a report sharply critical ofthe diocese’s response, which it saidis marked by “clericalism” and abunker mentality.

Bishop David Zubik said Fridayhe marked the somber anniversarywith prayers at Mass for the survi-vors of abuse. He said he believesthe diocese has taken importantsteps in responding to the report,even as it undergoes a vast programof parish mergers and responds tounanticipated challenges, such asthe pandemic.

“Over the course of the two years,we’ve worked very hard to be evermore present to victim/survivorsand acknowledge their need forhealing,” he said.

On Aug. 14, 2018, a statewidegrand jury issued a report into sex-ual abuse and cover-up spanningseven decades in six of Pennsylva-nia’s dioceses, including Pitts-burgh’s. The report made head-lines worldwide and, combinedwith scandals elsewhere duringwhat one Catholic journal called a

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The Progress Fund to bring brewery back to HazelwoodBREWERY, FROM WA-1

Will Hopkins/Tai + Lee architectsAn architectural rendering of what the former Hazelwood Brewing Co. on Lytle Street will looklike after its restoration.

Alexandra Wimley/Post-GazetteThe third floor will be the main indoor seating space in theformer Hazelwood Brewing Co. building, which will housethree breweries.

main drag of Second Avenue— just across the railroadtracks — as well as the Mo-nongahela River, the adja-cent 178-acre HazelwoodGreen site, Oakland and theDowntown skyline.

“Is this not cool?” saidProgress Fund Presidentand CEO David Kahley as hestood up there while giving atour of the raw space lastmonth.

The project was presentedduring the city ZoningBoard of Adjustment’s vir-tual meeting Thursday be-cause it seeks special excep-tions for commercial park-ing in a residential district(three employee spaces) andoff-site parking (five spaces)on a shared alley. If those ex-ceptions are granted (theboard has 60 days), Mr. Kah-ley says it would just needthe city to sign off on thebuilding permit for con-struction to proceed.

The Progress Fund haspurchased lots on either sideof the former brewery aswell as what was once an ice-house behind it, as part ofwhat it envisions as a craftdrinks destination and ananchor to Hazelwood’s fu-ture.

No government moneyhas been spent to acquire theproperty, notes Mr. Kahley.The Progress Fund did get a$1 million grant this yearfrom the Richard King Mel-lon Foundation and, in 2018,$4.5 million of $14 million inR.K. Mellon economic devel-opment grants for the neigh-borhood. The Progress Fundused its share “to assemblereal estate holdings, rehabil-itate historic property, andconstruct new industrialspace in Hazelwood,” ac-cording to R.K. Mellon.

This is an unusual projectfor The Progress Fund,which normally doesn’tfunction as a developer, butMr. Kahley says the plan isto help Hazelwood the way ithas helped trail towns suchas West Newton. Possibletenants include StraubBrewery, which brews in St.

Marys, Elk County.“What an exciting proj-

ect,” says Straub Presidentand CEO Bill Brock.

His family-owned brew-ery worked with TheProgress Fund on its newVisitors Center & Tap Roomand it would like to be part ofHazelwood.

“Everything about it feelsgood,” including that itwould give the brewery aphysical presence in its big-gest market.

“It would be a good placeto meet a lot of those custom-ers,” he says.

Other possible brewersare Travis Tuttle, one of theco-founders of Butler BrewWorks in Butler County.He’s says his “hat is in thering” to be part of this “greatproject,” which he would doas a spinoff from BonafideBeer Co., a small breweryand taproom that he is in theprocess of launching on 21stStreet in the Strip Districtthis year with PA Libations’Christian Simmons.

“It’s go-to easy-drinkingbeers,” says Mr. Tuttle, whomay work with yet anotherbrewery to contract-brewthe first batches. He notesthat if Bonafide is to alsobrew in Hazelwood, “we’regoing to put a lot of emphasison hiring people from thereand nearby areas.”

Another possible tenant isMike Potter, the owner ofBlack Brew Culture and co-founder of the Fresh FestBlack beer festival, forwhom this would be his firstbrewing venture. He did notcomment.

While they’ll all havetheir own first-floor brew-houses, equipped withseven-barrel systems, andtheir own second-floor stor-age rooms, they’ll share therest of the building, whichwill have a big elevator forcustomers to access on thebeer garden side.

That, says Mr. Kahley,was partially a nod to thepeople who live on the otherside of Lytle Street, whicheventually will be openedinto Hazelwood Green, theformer LTV Coke Works

that’s being developed into atech hub with housing andother amenities.

“We wanted to have a bigimpact on Hazelwood, andwe wanted to go big,” he saysof the project.

If the initial phase is suc-cessful, it could grow withthe addition of a distillery inthe former icehouse struc-ture, which for many yearsoperated as a lumber com-pany.

Between the two will be aparking lot and an expan-sive outdoor space, which inthese COVID-19-crimpedtimes, looks even more at-tractive than it normallywould. Food trucks will parkthere. While the brewerybuilding itself won’t have arestaurant — “It’s all aboutthe beer tastings,” Mr. Kah-ley stresses — it may have athird-floor space wheresandwiches and other pre-pared foods could be served.

“I think there’s tremen-dous potential,” says JoeHackett, landscape architectand principal with LaQua-tra Bonci Associates, who ishelping to lead the restora-tion. He’s looking forward toreusing brick, foundationstones from a long-gone ad-dition and Belgian block re-covered from behind thebrewery, which will be re-stored, but kept, as he puts itwith a grin, “sweaty andold.”

Mr. Kahley notes that onetop corner of the buildingwas clipped off by a 1990s tor-nado when it housed a hy-draulics company. “It’s asurvivor,” he says. And stillbomb-shelter solid, as theylearned when they strippedoff some of the old cork thatonce insulated the interiorwalls. The lead designer isWill Hopkins of Tai + LeeArchitects.

While The Progress Fundhas most of the $4.9 millionconstruction funding inhand, Mr. Kahley will beworking over the next sixmonths to secure about$500,000 for touches such asthe landscaped beer gardenand rooftop deck.

Sam Reiman, director and

trustee at the Richard KingMellon Foundation, laudsThe Progress Fund for pre-serving the Hazelwood his-tory of the place, perhaps in-cluding it in a brand of beermade there, and for thinkingabout keeping prices afford-able to a wide range of resi-dents as well as tourists.

“There’s a lot of thoughtgoing into this in terms ofhow you fully integrate thisinto the community.”

Pittsburgh and the sur-rounding area already havescores of breweries, but Mr.Kahley believes there’splenty of room for more —“Have you been to Napa?” hesays, referencing that win-ery-filled region. The ideafor Hazelwood, he says, is tohelp “create some life here.”

The place could open asearly as next spring “in aperfect world,” but every-thing is subject to theCOVID-19 crisis. The plan isto start working on the exte-rior and continue workingon the interior this winter.

Mr. Reiman acknowl-edges that the pandemic willhave an effect, but elements

of this project such as multi-ple tenants sharing the costsof one space, “That was rele-vant before COVID, and nowit’s even more relevant.”

City Councilman CoreyO’Connor, who was instru-mental in helping TheProgress Fund acquire twoadjacent lots that previouslygenerated complaints, sayshe’s looking forward to the

brewery becoming a destina-tion that connects all thenew things happening in Ha-zelwood with the old thingsthat built it.

“You’re going back to theroots of what the neighbor-hood was.”

Bob Batz Jr.: bbatz@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1930 andon Twitter @bobbatzjr.