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Pittsburgh to unveil initiatives to rejuvenate Downtown
CBS Pittsburgh ^ | 4/3/23 | KDKA

Posted on 08/01/2023 7:02:33 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Changes are coming to Downtown Pittsburgh aimed at bringing back workers and stopping the exodus of jobs and businesses. Later this week, the city promises to unveil some new initiatives, but will they be enough to turn things around? KDKA-TV's Andy Sheehan reports.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: pittsburgh; weinerworld
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Even with the advent of malls in the 70's "dahntahn Picksburgh" was vibrant.

I remember asking my mother if I could get a hot dog at Weiner World, and she said no, you will get a BLT at the Tik-Tok cafe shop in the basement of Kaufman's department store.

1 posted on 08/01/2023 7:02:33 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

They going to scrape up all the ‘homeless’ and gang bangers with front end loaders and deposit them in New York sh*tty?


2 posted on 08/01/2023 7:04:22 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: DallasBiff

If you want your city to look like Singapore you are gonna have to act like Singapore.

No American politician has the cojones to even attempt it.


3 posted on 08/01/2023 7:04:45 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Yup.


4 posted on 08/01/2023 7:12:19 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (.Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Changes are coming to Downtown Pittsburgh aimed at bringing back workers and stopping the exodus of jobs...”

Too late.


5 posted on 08/01/2023 7:13:43 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo“What were you doing in the store? You were eating the food?”)
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To: cgbg

3 canings for your insolence!


6 posted on 08/01/2023 7:13:47 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: dynachrome; cgbg

I love that post 2 & 3 nail the policy issues immediately. FR still rocks.

Until that happens, forget downtowns.


7 posted on 08/01/2023 7:15:23 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dynachrome; cgbg

Oh, and besides that, you’ve still got the issue that many downtown office workers are not coming back. People demand to work from home post-Covid, and it works for many, with huge savings in corporate real estate.


8 posted on 08/01/2023 7:16:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DallasBiff

The ‘70s was the last gasp of greatness in American cities. Meaning, goodness. NYC was such a juggernaut that it really hasn’t slowed down completely yet or been dominated by crime until very recently. But most cities, much smaller, seemed to retain what they had before the riots changed everything along with “civil rights”, perhaps because the department stores remained and the whites who left still tried to go in to shop.

I didn’t get to experience that myself, mom didn’t seem to want to go down anymore, but I’ve seen film from our city in the ‘70s and people were still crowding the streets going to all the dept. stores.


9 posted on 08/01/2023 7:16:56 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: z3n

Providing the ass whippins’ they didn’t receive as a child. Payment tendered with interest accrued.


10 posted on 08/01/2023 7:17:43 AM PDT by 31R1O (The people who can control themselves ought to be able to defend themselves from those who can't.)
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NOTHING in America will ever come back unless and until AmericaNS have an equally successful mind alteration that took about 60 years to accomplish.

I vividly remember the first five years of the 1960's, because I enlisted at 17 in 1965.

THAT was THE turning point in MY life and now, at 75, I can document the changes not only in me, but in American society as I took part in it's destruction as a sex, drugs and rock n' roll hippy turned activist turned married w/kids conservative turned born again Christian turned now many years too late to correct my mistakes but still conscious and vocal to say so.

I (we) screwed up and I dare say, even the ones that went into "education" were REALLY subversive can now see how badly we were misled.

In all honesty, we were adults making adult decisions that were based on the DISinformation of the times and the influence of other mildly drug induced pseudo intellectuals.

God forgive me for the damage I've done and help me to lead the vulnerable into more Americanly Godly thinking and ways, in Jesus' name, Amen.

11 posted on 08/01/2023 7:18:20 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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Pittsburgh and other cities won’t turn the decline until they recognize the roots of the problem. First, there isn’t a homeless problem. It’s an open air drug market problem where people go to shoot up and don’t leave. Second, it’s a broader crime problem. Then, it’s a basic services problem - trash collection, street cleaning. All of these are easily solved. It just takes guts and spending tax dollars or the things that really matter. Stop wasting money on Marxist government programs. Lock up those that break the law and clean the streets.


12 posted on 08/01/2023 7:19:39 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Our area city—Hartford, CT—had massive black riots in 1968.

There has been no coming back from that—whites fled and have no reason ever to return.


13 posted on 08/01/2023 7:22:37 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I remember as a kid in the sixties riding the escalator to the 5th floor where the toys were. They had a lot more toys than anything in our small town. Generally, we got our toys from Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog.


14 posted on 08/01/2023 7:22:48 AM PDT by alternatives?
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Install huge fans on the west side of the city to blow the smell Eastward.


15 posted on 08/01/2023 7:27:21 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: DallasBiff

Pittsburgh - The “Paris of Appalachia”


16 posted on 08/01/2023 7:32:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Is the Mayor named Rudy Guilani? Then it may work. Otherwise, no chance.


17 posted on 08/01/2023 7:34:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Pittsburgh to unveil initiatives to rejuvenate Downtown

Wash, rinse, repeat. Buffalo has had several "renew downtown" efforts over the past few decades, with predictable results. The one constant is that the Democrats control the city, which I believe is also the case in Pittsburgh.

18 posted on 08/01/2023 7:38:34 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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Pittsburgh had a liberal, kinda woke mayor. Then in 2021 they elected a fully woke, anti-police mayor. But, wait. It gets worse. In this year’s Democrat primary for DA a fully woke, anti-police candidate won the nomination. He’s the favorite for the fall general election.

So the city won’t be seeing any real corrective action. Pittsburgh is done.
To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, slowly then all at once.


19 posted on 08/01/2023 7:44:41 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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They are openly hostile to business.

US Steel Cancles 1.5 Bil project in Pittsburg

The Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council pinned the blame for the loss of the project on unnamed local elected officials that it accused of a lack of support and open hostility toward the company and its workers.

It will mean the loss of approximately 1,000 full-time union construction jobs and a longer-term threat to 3,000 workers at the Mon Valley Works complex, said Tom Melcher, business manager for the Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council.

Within the year they announced a 3 Bil project in Arkansas

“Arkansas has created an ideal business environment for the growth of the steel industry in our state,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson said. “The investment and high paying jobs that will result from this announcement will make a real difference in the lives of many families in Northeast Arkansas."

Perhaps it does matter how you vote.........

90 years of the same thing - they'll keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

20 posted on 08/01/2023 8:09:05 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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