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Of the 10 plays August Wilson wrote — two of which won him the Pulitzer Prize — nine were based in and around the Hill District in Pittsburgh; he chronicled the city’s changing landscape over decades. He is not the only writer to have chosen the Steel City as a backdrop. Below, one book explores the places that influenced Mr. Wilson’s plays, and two others reimagine Pittsburgh’s people and culture. Photo AUGUST WILSON Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays By Laurence A. Glasco, Christopher Rawson 146 pp. Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (2015; second edition). For a visual tour of the historical sites that figure in Mr. Wilson’s work, turn to this book. It includes photographs of places like the apartment where he lived on Bedford Avenue, and locations name-dropped in his plays like West Funeral Home and what used to be Lutz’s Market. The guide also features essays that contextualize his work, as well as personal introductions written by his niece Kimberly C. Ellis a...

PHOENIX, AZ - Colliers International in Greater Phoenix completed the sale of the 374- unit Crosswinds Apartment Homes at 868 S. Arizona Ave., in Chandler, Ariz., for $22 million or approximately $58,824 per unit.Cindy Cooke, senior executive vice president ; and Brad Cooke, senior vice president , with Colliers’ Phoenix office, represented the sellers, P.B. Bell of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Stonecutter Capital Management LLC of New York, N.Y., who originally acquired the asset in 2014.The buyer, who was self-represented, was Emma Capital Investments Inc., of Toronto, Canada, who specializes in the financing, acquisition and operation of multifamily residential complexes , particularly in the Sun Belt states in the U.S. Emma Capital’s portfolio consists of more than $175 million of property and approximately 3,000 units in the metro Phoenix, Atlanta and Charlotte markets. “Crosswinds is in the middle of a high-growth path between downtown Chandler and Chandler Airpark, “said Cindy C...