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Old 05-15-2012, 11:16 AM
 
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Yeah, this didn't turn out well. It's sad to watch stuff like this. It would be neat to explore this old dump like the guy in the video did though.


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Old 05-15-2012, 11:56 AM
 
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Yeah, this didn't turn out well. It's sad to watch stuff like this. It would be neat to explore this old dump like the guy in the video did though.


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This was the story I referred to in my Mon Valley post. I think it was on last Friday. My wife watches this show, she called me in to the room when the story was on and asked "Hey, didn't you use to live near there?". The story isn't very accurate though, as they left out the big reason why the downtown area is soooo run down. Some of it is regional decline, but Browsville has been hit the hardest thanks to Ernest Liggett and his failed river boat gambling empire. If he would just sell these building back to the town there might be some progress to restore the place.

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Old 05-15-2012, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Hard to believe this is jut outside of a major county which has completely transformed itself over the past 30 years and is doing much better than the nation as a whole. Maybe they should come up to Pittsburgh while they were there to show a city where the recession's effect have been done for nearly 2 years.
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Old 05-15-2012, 12:19 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Brownsville has been like that LONG before the current recession set in
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Old 05-15-2012, 12:22 PM
 
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Some of it is regional decline, but Browsville has been hit the hardest thanks to Ernest Liggett and his failed river boat gambling empire. If he would just sell these building back to the town there might be some progress to restore the place.
This - any town would be a ghost town if a developer bought up the entire business district with promised of grandeur then just allowed it to sit completely vacant afterwards [not to say Brownsville would be thriving but for this by any means, but would most like at the very least not be a completely abandoned ghost town either.
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Old 05-15-2012, 12:44 PM
 
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I remember the Brownsville of 2008... vibrant... no storefront vacancy... growing economy and population... it was wonderful.
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Old 05-15-2012, 01:10 PM
 
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I remember the West Brownsville borough official crowing that they are shown on the PA Official Transportation and Tourism Map in larger type than Brownsville.
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Old 05-15-2012, 01:31 PM
 
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Brownsville has a nice little townscape. Shame it's so far from Pittsburgh, otherwise it could maybe stand a chance at revival.
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Old 05-15-2012, 01:47 PM
 
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I remember the Brownsville of 2008... vibrant... no storefront vacancy... growing economy and population... it was wonderful.
The properties were all purchased in the early 1990s. Article from 2001: http://old.post-gazette.com/columnis...10408brian.asp
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Old 05-15-2012, 01:55 PM
 
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Fascinating line from that article--not so much for the Brownsville issue, but for the pessimism about redevelopment projects succeeding in Pittsburgh:

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But progress remains dependent on the emergence of a white knight, a species hard to come by. And the bigger the plan, the more likely something will go wrong. We know that well in Pittsburgh, having seen the struggles of Allegheny Center and East Liberty, of Federal North and the doomed plan for Market Place at Fifth and Forbes.
I suspect attitudes would be different today (well, at least among many people).
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