Changing Gears: Reinventing Pittsburgh, part two

Changing Gears: Reinventing Pittsburgh, part two
Photo by Erika Gatz
Changing Gears: Reinventing Pittsburgh, part two
Photo by Erika Gatz

Changing Gears: Reinventing Pittsburgh, part two

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All this week, our Changing Gears team is looking at Reinventing Pittsburgh. The steel city is now more like the medical and technology city with hundreds of start up companies, a below average unemployment rate, and more jobs than during the height of the steel era. Not bad just three decades after its major industry collapsed.

Monday, our reporter Dan Bobkoff told us of that remarkable transformation. In part two of his report, Dan tells us how it happened.