They Paved Paradise and Put Up A Parking Lot

A provocative news alert from the folks at the Pittsburgh Arts Watch:

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

The old Pittsburgh Opera building at Penn Avenue and 8th Street has been torn down and replaced with a parking lot. It is understood a fountain will be placed at the edge of Penn Ave.

http://www.pgharts.org/media/read_release.aspx?id=66071

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09066/953820-53.stm

There is still Cell Phone Disco though

(With Funding through a Foundation)

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A88396

http://www.downtownpittsburgh.com/do/cell-phone-disco91

Although Layoffs Remain

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09037/947357-100.stm

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