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Dramatic transformation - Pittsburgh's old red-light district has become one of the most desirable parts of Downtown
Friday, March 16, 2007 at 12:00PM Dramatic transformation - Pittsburgh's old red-light district has become one of the most desirable parts of Downtown
Pittsburgh Business Times - March 16, 2007
By Tim Schooley
More than 20 years ago, the most dramatic before-and-after effect a visitor to Liberty Avenue Downtown could find was the state of a stripper's undress after the music finished playing.
Back then, the 14-block area wedged between the Strip District and Downtown was a hoary hodgepodge populated with prostitutes, small-time cons and nudie bars -- an unsavory ambiance that lingered through much of the 1990s.
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