Pittsburgh Wool Bulletin (26 August 1999)

Pittsburgh Wool and Heinz strike a deal that involves the sale of the
Pittsburgh Wool Company building for late 1999 demolition. This is a done
deal and no concrete details for documentation and mitigation have been
released beyond the announcement of the establishment of a "$100,000
exhibit" on the leather industry at the Historical Society of Western PA
museum.

This situation has reached the crisis stage and there is no local
constituency for preserving Pittsburgh Wool.   At yesterday's news
conference, Pittsburgh Wool Company owner Jeff Kumer admitted that their
days of pulling wool are over and that in the new facility offered by the
City of Pittsburgh and Heinz, they will continue only as pelt brokers. The
bad PR surrounding this has hit Heinz hard. More pressure needs to be
brought to bear immediately to prevent Heinz from razing the last
functioning wool pullery in the United States.

Press coverage on yesterday's deal may be found at:

Pittsburgh Post Gazette:
<http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990826hjheinz1.asp>
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: <http://www.triblive.com/news/pwool0826.html>


David Rotenstein.
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David S. Rotenstein, Ph.D., RPA
Consulting Historian
Columbia, SC 29201
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Phone: (803) 376-1442
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