The properties are currently under planning for use to extend the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail from the riverfront into Homestead Borough's business district. Other recreational amenities are also being considered. A grant from the Commonwealth of PA has been received to develop the new trail segment.
Former Use: According to the recent Phase I ESA (KU Resources, 2014), the Property parcels were historically utilized as the following: � 1876: residential and retail properties; � 1886: residential, retail, and railroad station; � 1891: residential, retail, paint shop, cement/lime/sand/coal warehouses, beer warehouses, hotels, and boarding house; � 1896: residential, retail, news printing shop, paint shop, builders supplies, Iron City Brewing Co., ice house, cold storage, and sausage factory; � 1900: west half (Parcel 130-F-58)-residential and retail, and east half (Parcel 179-A-40)-portion of Carnegie Steel Corp.; � 1901: west half-residential, retail, printing, painting, two Chinese laundry facilities, Homestead Lumber & Builders Supplies, and Pittsburgh Brewing Company, and east half-portion of United States Steel Corporation (USS Corp.); � 1907: west half-residential, retail, tailors, metal worker, machine shop, Chinese laundry, Vallowe Brothers Feed & Storage, Homestead Lumber, and Pittsburgh Brewing Co., and east half-USS Corp.; � 1913: west half-residential, retail, tin shop, Perfect Printing Manufacturing Co., and Morris & Co. Cold Storage, and east half-portion of USS Corp.; � 1926: west half-residential, retail, hotels, Sheet Metal Works, Casket Manufacturing, junk yard, McCrady Brothers Co. Builders Supplies, and two warehouses, and east half-portion of USS Corp.; � 1938: west half-residential and retail, and east half-parking and portion of USS Corp.; � 1949: west half-P&LE RR Station, and east half-parking and portion of USS Corp.; � 1956: west half-P&LE RR Station and parking, and east half-parking and portion of USS Corp.; � 1993: west half-P&LE RR Station and land clearing, and east half-land clearing; and � 1995: vacant.