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  • Looking hard at the Golden Triangle

    07/23/2005 6:58:06 AM PDT · by Cavalcabo · 5 replies · 565+ views
    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 7-17-05 | Bill Steigerwald
    It's easy to be fooled by the Golden Triangle. Most Pittsburghers have been for 50 years. We've looked with great pride at Point State Park and Gateway Center, the tidy clump of corporate office buildings next to it. And without thinking too hard about why their never-changing open spaces are so empty of humans so much of the time, we naturally assume they are an example of successful urban planning. But they're not, as New York Times columnist John Tierney, a former Pittsburgher, so cruelly but accurately pointed out in a recent op-ed piece that embarrassed Pittsburgh by exposing it...
  • Saks investor seeks city subsidy

    04/30/2004 9:24:02 AM PDT · by southernnorthcarolina · 14 replies · 421+ views
    Charlotte Observer ^ | April 30, 2004 | Richard Rubin and Leigh Dyer
    This July 2003 artist's rendering shows the planned Saks Fifth Avenue store. There's a big hole in the ground at the corner of Park and Gleneagles roads in south Charlotte. Developer Dee-Dee Harris wants to fill it with a glitzy Saks Fifth Avenue store -- and public money. In a rambling plea sent this week to city and state officials, Harris asked for unspecified assistance from government. Without help, she said, her $200 million project might collapse. Construction has stalled for nearly three months. Harris' letter notes that low profit expectations have made private money tough to get. "We read...