Pennsylvania Real Estate & Relocation Guide

Pine Township, Pennsylvania

Population: 7,683

Located in Allegheny County

The township of Pine, located in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, offers residents wonderful housing developments, private land and neighborhoods. Pine is far enough from the City of Pittsburgh with a large selection of housing and easy highway transportation to Downtown Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Cultural District, the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums (approx. 25 minutes). In addition, easy highway access to Pittsburgh International Airport are making it a fact that 85% of all people moving to Pittsburgh are looking at the North Hills because of transportation ease, excellent schools, great selection in housing and wonderful neighborhoods.

Recreation amenities abound, many public and private golf courses such as Treesdale Golf and Country Club (an Arnold Palmer designed course) and Diamond Run are two of the area's popular golf community housing developments. Two beautiful parks - Pine Community Park, featuring the Pine Community Center and Activities Program, Annual Easter Egg Hunts, Pine Community Days on the last Saturday every July; summer recreation programs, outdoor sand volleyball courts, picnic shelters, soccer/baseball fields, basketball courts, summer evening Movies in the Park, Farmers' Market, Halloween Hay Rides, and North Park, a 3,010 County Park offering residents natural woodlands, walking and biking trails, an 18-hole golf course, 17 tennis courts, bird sanctuary, game preserve, ice skating rink, basketball courts, winter sleigh riding, batting cages, driving ranges and a Par 3 Golf Course with over 200 picnic groves. One can also rent boats and canoes on the 75-acre lake.

The Pine Richland School system offers students excellent bus service and wonderful educational opportunities in the newly built High School and Athletic/Football Stadium and also houses the Pine Richland Area Library. The state-of-the art Athletic/Football Stadium also offers summer concerts to area residents with Pittsburgh's own Symphony Orchestra and the River City Brass Band. Shopping and Restaurants abound, area malls like Ross Park and several smaller ones and dining at the Pines Tavern and the Stone Mansion are just a few of the many fine restaurants and fashionable shops mentioned.

Strategically located in the heart of the Mid-Atlantic states, Allegheny County is only a short flight or a day's drive from many of the world's busiest commercial centers, including New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, and Toronto, Canada. These lucrative markets encompass more than 50 percent of the populations of both the United States and Canada, and account for 53 percent of the American buying income. Utilizing a transportation system that takes advantage of all modes of travel including highways, waterways, rail lines and one of the nation's most modern aviation facilities, Allegheny County is uniquely positioned to deliver its world class high-tech, bio-medical, manufacturing and communication products to markets throughout the world.

The landscape of Allegheny County can be characterized as rolling hills punctuated by several scenic river valleys that offer breathtaking vantage points to experience the splendor of all four seasons. Winter provides the perfect opportunities for skiers and sled riding as snow, while not in abundance, often blankets the area. Surrounded by many rural farming communities, the spring season is the time of rejuvenation highlighted in the rebirth of the many forests and greenways that frame the local highways and byways. The long days of summer afford the opportunity to work and yet still cut loose to enjoy the many recreational activities available to the local population.

Fall is probably the most appreciated time of the year for many Allegheny County natives. The hills come alive with a kaleidoscope of red, yellow and orange hues that leave the observer warm inside to carry through the winter doldrums until the onset of spring. Average temperatures for our location range anywhere from 18 degree Fahrenheit lows in January to 83 degree Fahrenheit highs in July.

Allegheny County residents and visitors experience a unique local atmosphere, enjoying all the "big city" amenities without many of the big city problems. These features blend with a special small town warmth and charm, to give us a quality of life envied throughout the nation.

In a 1985 survey of 329 metropolitan areas by Rand McNally's "Places Rated Almanac" Allegheny County and the Greater Pittsburgh Area earned the title, "Most Livable Community in the Nation" for its strength in housing, health, education, arts, recreation, economics, safety, transportation and climate. In subsequent editions of the Almanac, our region has continued to rate consistently high, and has drawn raves in many other publications as well, earning top ten areas to live accolades from Money Magazine, Fortune Magazine, National Employment Review and Century 21 Real Estate Corporation, among others.

The 1995 Uniform Crime Report also gives the region high marks for safety, with Pittsburgh having been found to be safer then 44 of 48 cities with more than 300,000 residents. Allegheny County also boasts the lowest crime rates for any metropolitan area with more than one million citizens.

The cost of quality housing in Allegheny County ranks among the most affordable in the nation, based on figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Our costs are well below the national average, easily beating out cities including Baltimore, Atlanta, Seattle or Chicago.