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Article: ...INDUSTRIAL PITTSBURGH REBORN AS RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY CENTER
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- December 3, 1986
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PITTSBURGH - The wrecking ball and a fleet of
bulldozers have battered and scraped away the essence of the Steel
City's past to sow the seeds of what some feel is its future.
A new high-technology park specializing in computer software,
robotics and artificial intelligence will be built on a 50-acre site
that had housed heavy industry since before the Civil War.
``Pittsburgh is known throughout the world as the epitome of the
industrial city, the epoch that has passed. We are in the midst of
a fundamental transformation,'' said Tim Parks, executive director
of the Pittsburgh High-Technology Council.
The mention of Pittsburgh, once the steel capital of the world,
used to evoke ...