Just down the street in the South Side Flats from St. Casimir is another church finding new life as condos. Matthew’s Lofts (www.matthewsloftspgh.com) is in the former St. Matthew Catholic Church at 156 S. 19th St., South Side. Built in 1905, the church primarily served the Slovak immigrant community. The Pittsburgh Diocese decommissioned…

PITTSBURGH – An old Catholic Church on the South Side will get a new breath of life. St. Matthew’s, at the corner of 19th and Mary streets, has stood vacant for more than a decade. Developers from New York have big plans that will transform the building and the community……

A former Catholic church in the South Side, shuttered for a quarter-century after parishioners moved to the suburbs, could soon welcome residents inside its red brick walls with its conversion to loft-style condominiums. Tom Sabol and Scott Wolkowitz with The AM Group in New York will ask the Zoning Board…