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To: Willie Green
Wow. You are probably the only person in the country, to favour this USSC decision.

But what the hey - someone's house might be in the way of one of your beloved choo-choo's.

12 posted on 07/09/2005 10:20:27 AM PDT by patton ("Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.")
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To: patton
Wow. You are probably the only person in the country, to favour this USSC decision.

I don't know how you've managed to jump to that erroneous conclusion.
All I did was point out that the author picked an extremely poor example to support his position.
As a native Pittsburgher, I fully agree that the East Liberty and North Side renovations were pretty dismal flops. But the downtown development of Gateway Center and Point State Park was truly visionary.

Here's a picture of "The Point" in 1950. Look at all the crappy dilapidated warehouses:

Here's what it looks like NOW:


13 posted on 07/09/2005 10:46:40 AM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka)
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