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Ambitious Projects Aim to Revitalize Downtown
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:01PM Ambitious Projects Aim to Revitalize Downtown
KDKA - February 18, 2008
By Andy Sheehan
For now, much of downtown Pittsburgh is under construction.
There's the North Shore Connector project, the PNC office, hotel and retail high rise and the Piatt Place transformation of the Lazarus building into condos and shops - pricey and ambitious projects aimed at revitalizing downtown's long-decaying urban core of blight and vacant stores.
"Within the next two years this whole area will be completely remade. When you have $1 billion of investment in the pipeline within two blocks of where we're standing right now," Lucas Piatt said.
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