PUBLISHER'S PAGE - City on the Move

As I contemplate my thoughts for this 16th Annual Destination Guide, I can’t help but marvel at what a marvelous city this really is.

It’s a city of history with character. Settled in the 1700s with no less than George Washington exploring it, he could see a great city one day situated here at the confluence of three rivers— where the Monongahela and Allegheny come together at “The Point” to form the the Ohio.

That city is Pittsburgh.

Some 250 years later, there are things happening here that offer hope for tomorrow and satisfaction in calling this city and area home.

Geographically, Western Pennsylvania has much to commend it with its rolling hills and valleys, winding rivers, and creeks, and numerous small towns and neighborhoods that make up the metropolitan area and region.

It’s a city with traditional roots and yet a city in flux.

Within the metro area are 33 colleges and universities; seven theatres are in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Cultural District; and the cost of living here is among the best anywhere. And there are seven Fortune 500 companies headquartered here with 374 foreign based companies with operations in Pittsburgh.

The foundation is solid and yet change here is everywhere to be seen.

Two brand new sports stadiums adorn the North Shore, PNC Park and Heinz Field. On one side of the baseball park, the new Equitable Resources Building is going up while on the other, the headquarters for Del Monte is being erected. Across the Allegheny, on the edge of Downtown and the Strip District, is the new David L. Lawrence Convention Center, a state-of-the-art meeting place. Opened two years ago, the convention center is the first ‘green’ or environmentally smart convention center in the United States.

Across town, along the Monongahela on the South Side where once was a steel mill, there now are new research and technology offices, a new shopping center and stores, restaurants, theatres, and housing.

And across the Smithfield Street Bridge is Station Square with its new addition riverside at Bessemer Court which includes Hard Rock Cafe and other restaurants, taverns, and clubs.

This is a city and region on the move.

An area, despite the demise of the steel industry 20 years ago, a place that was too tough to die.

A. Robert Scott
Publisher/Owner

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