Post-Pandemic Pittsburgh: Downtown Partnership Hoping People Will Begin Returning To The City

By John Shumway, CBS Pittsburgh

April 30, 2021

There is just no way to miss the contrast between downtown Pittsburgh before the pandemic and now.

The CEO of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Jeremy Waldrup says the workforce that was told to stay home a year ago is slow to return.

“We’ve been tracking this on a monthly basis so when you look at March, you’re at about 11% still pretty low,” he said. “So, we’re used to 100,000 people coming into downtown a day, 11,000 people now so it does feel like a ghost town.”

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