Monday, July 17, 2006

My sister told me about an article over the weekend. It's one of the most exciting statements about Pittsburgh I've heard in a long time. The Clark Building (downtown) was recently sold for $22 million. The buyer isn't looking at conversions to housing as many have been looking at in downtown recently. No, the Clark building was bought with a look forward to new industry that could rival the age of steel and put Pittsburgh in a new category. Here's a quote from the Pittsburgh Business Times article:

"Gorman said he's bullish on Pittsburgh because of the high-tech companies coming out of Carnegie Mellon University.

'I believe that Pittsburgh is going to be the center for artificial intelligence and robotics. Within 10 years, that will be one of the biggest businesses in the world," Gorman said. "Pittsburgh will be to artificial intelligence what Silicon Valley is to chips.'" Link to article

In the past few months we seem to have really increased our momentum here in Pittsburgh.

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