Restaurant, store cited by health department

Lucky Nine restaurant on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill was ordered closed by the Allegheny County Health Department for operating without a permit, storing food outdoors, having equipment in disrepair and having inadequate refrigeration. The department also posted a consumer alert at Wylie Tobacco on Wylie Avenue in the Hill District for a mouse infestation. An inspector reported repackaged food including candy bars and chips with gnaw marks, and “visible urine stains” on packages. Mouse droppings were found on shelves and around the perimeter of the facility. The convenience store was hit with a consumer alert in December for the same problems. Inspection reports for food facilities in Allegheny County are available online at www.achd.net.

Mexican equity fund buys Southpointe building

A Mexican equity fund has landed in the Pittsburgh market by securing a three-story office building at Southpointe. The Aztec Fund purchased the 98,314square-foot 501 Technology Drive from an affiliate of the Laurus Corp., a real estate investment and development company. The sales price was not divulged. The deal was announced by Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP, or HFF, which marketed the property and procured the buyer. Completed in 2000, 501 Technology Drive, situated on 8.5 acres of land in the heart of the Washington County business park, is fully leased. Its tenants include Primetals Technologies and Siemens.

Newly public Consol Energy sees profit

Consol Energy Inc., the newly public coal-focused firm, finished its first year as a separate company with net income of $82.6 million, or $2.42 cents per share, compared with $50.5 million, or $1.48 per share, for the same assets in 2016. It spun out of the parent firm, which rebranded as oil and gas company CNX Resources Corp., in November. Consol said the federal tax overhaul would yield an annual effective tax rate between 10 percent and 15 percent for the coal company starting this year.

Black Box stumbles through third quarter

Washington County-based communication and information technology equipment company Black Box Corp. reported a net loss of $27.9 million, or $1.85 per share, in the third quarter ended Dec. 30, compared to earnings $1.3 million, or 9 cents per share, for the same period last year. Losses, adjusted for one-time events, were 31 cents per share. Revenue declined 7.4 percent, from $210.4 million in the third quarter of the previous fiscal year to $194.9 million. Board member Joel T. Trammell took over as the company’s new CEO in