Make Downtown Cool Again
If you’ve read the news lately, it feels like Downtown Pittsburgh keeps winning the lottery. There’s a $600 million plan to revitalize and transform the Golden Triangle, with tons of money going toward places like Point State Park and Market Square. But the investment isn’t so obvious along Smithfield Street — once the destination Downtown, now filled with vacant storefronts. Local journalists Adam Smeltz and Stephanie Strasburg tell us about efforts to make Smithfield Pittsburgh’s “it” spot again, and whether a revitalized Smithfield could truly cater to and serve all kinds of Pittsburghers.
You can find their reporting on Smithfield Street in PublicSource and Pittsburgh Magazine.
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