Pittsburgh MSA municipal population data (2020)

[eschaton]

Braddock still has more going on than you would expect for a dying mill town, including:

Ink Division Printing
Shirtnado
Toll Gate Revival (antique store, relocated from Lawrenceville)
Brew Gentlemen
Brassero Grill (great Mexican restaurant)
Barebones Productions
Unsmoke Systems Artspace

The borough has also been successful at building new affordable housing within its business district, including the dedicated artist housing in the now restored Ohringer building

This isn't to imply that Braddock is the "next big thing." You can find way more stuff these days in Etna. That said, there's an important role for an affordable area with a high concentration of artists/creatives that is too far gone to really gentrify. Artists don't make a lot of money typically, and thus need to be in unfashionable areas if they want to focus on full-time creative ventures.

I think it's unquestionable that Fetterman did have an impact on Braddock, which has resulted in the community having some positives that you don't see somewhere like Rankin, or even East Pittsburgh, Turtle Creek, or Wilmerding. That said, it's been far from enough to turn around the general decline of the borough.

[gg]

Originally Posted by wpipkins2

I said what I said. Fetterman did improve Braddock as there were zero homicides in over 5 years. Braddock was a bad drug infested neighborhood but like some city neighborhoods…….it is hollowed out. Braddock did restore historic structures and replaced a failing UPMC Hospital with Housing, Medical Center, retail and community flex space. This bright spot is visible from Kennywood and 837. The Ohringer building restoration saved one of the few examples of Moderne style in Pittsburgh. If anything Fetterman was hopeful for a hopeless depressed steel town. Remember the Levi commercial?

No one lives there, so of course crime is lower. Lol

[BUILD PENN SQUARE]

"In order to sustain this region’s future economy and quality of life, what’s your top idea to stem the population losses and attract new people?"

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/arti...burgh-leaders/

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/arti...rgh-leaders-2/

[Knepper3]

Originally Posted by BUILD PENN SQUARE

"In order to sustain this region’s future economy and quality of life, what’s your top idea to stem the population losses and attract new people?"

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/arti...rgh-leaders-2/

This stood out to me "Pittsburgh has one of the nation’s largest senior populations. This 65-plus demographic inevitably will experience health issues, resulting in a constantly larger-than-normal population decline."

To me that means more hard times to come before better times. That demographic declines but no one to pick up the slack unless things change and change usually lags a while.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by Moby Hick

"Nailerman" is "Independentthinking"'s porn name?

Didn't that "Independentthinking" guy get banned?

[erieguy]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

Didn't that "Independentthinking" guy get banned?

Multiple times…and what’s interesting is when they first started posting they said nobody deserves anything they don’t work for, which has now gone by the wayside