Redefining steel
WSJ: Pittsburgh Is Remade as Steal City
While a bit over the top in the details, I suspect even our nattering nabobs will have a hard time spinning this negative.
While a bit over the top in the details, I suspect even our nattering nabobs will have a hard time spinning this negative.
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Like all good news about Pittsburgh, you have to pay money to hear it.
Pointing out of his 30th-floor office at the planned construction site, Mr. Rohr says, "When this gets finished, downtown's about done."
Just so. And I find the City using the property sales revenue for the URA parcels sold for Rohr's new building for facade improvements Downtown annoying. Yes, I know. There is still some low hanging fruit to grab in tightening up Downtown. But there are other corridors that are perhaps more deserving of the attention at this point. Downtown Pittsburgh is nice enough.
"But there are other corridors that are perhaps more deserving of the attention at this point."
Like 5th and Forbes in Uptown!
They should put a trolley on that corridor.
You mean they should put a trolley back on that corridor?
Hell, the rails are still there.
The announcement of the new PNC tower seems to be getting us some good press.
You should stop worrying about the ground level facades and start trying to see what they could do about a gondola port on top.
I've already got the Downtown gondola stations picked out: one spanning Ross with a direct link to Steel Plaza, and one in the large open space between Penn Station and the federal courthouse.
Anyway, I don't think this is a zero-sum game. The right public investments Downtown can payoff throughout the region, and of course vice-versa as well (Downtown can benefit from public investments in many other places). So in my view it is a question of having an integrated, well-planned development strategy, not which neighborhood "deserves" more or less.
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