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Article: Pittsburgh man revitalizes historic district.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2007
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Byline: Dahleen Glanton
PITTSBURGH _ Randy Gilson is a simple man with a big plan.
Armed with a few hundred gallons of paint and truckloads of flowers and vegetable seeds, he has embarked on a mission to help restore a once-dilapidated neighborhood to the splendor it enjoyed more than a century ago.
His quest began a decade ago when Gilson, a Westin Hotel waiter, used his credit card to purchase a crumbling three-story building in the city's historic Mexican War Streets district for about $11,300. In its declining years, the building had served in a variety of functions _ a grocery store, a political club, a nightclub and most recently, a ...