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Benchmarks: The Downtown dilemma
Sunday, December 31, 2000 By Douglas Heuck, Post-Gazette Business Editor
In today's PG Benchmarks, we attempt to shed light on the issues surrounding the next step in developing Downtown.
In this year-end section, we have stories looking at Downtown living, retail and parking, three key ingredients in any recipe for reinvigorating what is already a thriving Downtown in comparison with similar-sized cities.
In retail, we already are ahead of the 14 PG Benchmarks cities in terms of department stores Downtown. Pittsburgh is alone among the cities, with four, even without Nordstrom, which last month decided against opening a store Downtown. That move marked the end of Mayor Tom Murphy's three-year project known as Market Place at Fifth and Forbes.
The Mayor's next step is to open the process for collaboration, and, to that end, we asked readers for their ideas on what should be done to improve the Fifth and Forbes section of the Golden Triangle. Their responses are included. Keeping and building upon what is distinctly Pittsburgh is one of the themes that emerges.
Throughout this section, you'll find our benchmark measures comparing Pittsburgh with its peer cities in quality of life. And as has been the case every year since this project began in 1996, Pittsburgh is among the leaders in terms of being a desirable place to live.
Also included are stories on some aspects of regional quality of life as well as a special graphic showing how the regions compare in the most important benchmark measures in economy, the public sector and quality of life.
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