Property sales hailed as Downtown's rebirth

Property sales hailed as Downtown's rebirth - Developers say they are ready to begin long-awaited revitalization

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - December 15, 2006
By Rich Lord

With agreements to sell two swaths of Downtown to developers yesterday, the city started the ball rolling on stores, 50 moderately priced apartments and a series of groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings in the center of the downtrodden shopping district.

The sales are the first to result from the latest effort, begun by the late Mayor Bob O'Connor, to revamp the dowdy corridor.

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