RE: Comments by George J. Myers, Jr.:

The City isn't concerned with preservation or the viability of
tourism/economic development from its diminishing industrial historical
sites. The City wants (and works towards luring) sports fans, not folks who
will spend their dollars on seeing the past. Unfortunately, the City of
Pittsburgh is so short-sighted that they do not recognize that the same
folks who drop money on Steelers and Pirates games also pay to visit places
like Gettysburg, Steamtown, Johnstown and other Pennsylvania historic sites.

As for the Context issue, the folks at PHLF aren't concerned. They went so
far as to float the absurd idea of moving the Pittsburgh Wool building out
of the Heinz project area, further away from the historic Heinz core plant
and off the site where there have been tanneries and other leather-industry
related facilities since the 1830s. The site, hence the context, is the
oldest single-industry occupied site in the city of Pittsburgh. PHLF caved
because it was expedient and they aren't creative enough to work towards
alternative site uses that preserve Pittsburgh Wool in place.

DSR.
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David S. Rotenstein, Ph.D., RPA
Consulting Historian
Columbia, SC 29201
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Website: http://davidsr01.home.mindspring.com
Phone: (803) 376-1442
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