Pittsburgh needs a new strategy for bringing life back to Downtown's failed Fifth and Forbes retail area, candidates for mayor and critics of the current administration said Thursday.
Madison Marquette, a national real estate company based in Washington, D.C., is the latest developer to take a crack at creating a master plan for the once-thriving city center, said Herb Burger, chairman of the Pittsburgh Task Force, a private group charged with reinvigorating Fifth and Forbes.
But with Mayor Tom Murphy's third term coming to an end in January, candidates to replace him -- Democrat Bob O'Connor and Republican Joe Weinroth -- say they want to take a new tack.
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