Transcript: Summit Spotlights 'Steel City's' Extreme Makeover

STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
09-24-2009
Summit Spotlights 'Steel City's' Extreme Makeover

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 11:00-12:00 PM


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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Now the leaders of those economic powers are meeting in a city that's been remade. Pittsburgh transformed its economy and now hopes to transform its image.

NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

SCOTT HORSLEY: Pittsburgh's profile is on the rise. Bathed in the international spotlight, the city's reputation is climbing like one of the incline railway cars that scale the steep hillside along the Monongahela River.

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Mr. CHRIS BRIEM (Regional Economist, University of Pittsburgh): This is Mount ...

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