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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 1d

Is that before or after ICE shows up?

Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 1d

Looks (finally) open

Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 1d

This! One of Pittsburgh's greater failures (IMHO) is not having a functioning land bank in the decade or two when it could have really shaped local real estate in the first decades of the 20th century.

Rich Lord @richelord.bsky.social · 2d

Cleveland crushed Pittsburgh. Cuyahoga Land Bank's offensive against abandoned properties scored 2,600 home renovations and 243 new homes built, while Pittsburgh was just getting its ground game going, @chwolfson.bsky.social reports in "The Homeownership Wall" www.publicsource.org/cleveland-ve...

Where does Cleveland clobber Pittsburgh? Its land bank.

The Steelers may best the Browns, but Cleveland’s land bank sets a model for how Pittsburgh could make more homeowners.

www.publicsource.org

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas Mellon erasure complete:

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 5d

Ok. I have to point this one out because the sales pitch says you get to live in “the *epic* neighborhood of ‘Lower Lawrenceville’” (emphasis added). Far be it from me to add that it is actually in Central Lawrenceville. But we’re now ‘epic’!

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

Is this native to Bloomfield?

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · Jun 18

In a poetic coincidence today, I now have a book cover. Not available yet, but you can pre-order, and I promised my editor everyone following here will want to preorder! But if you have landed here because of the Nippon Steel/US Steel news, you will want to read this:

Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

All I remember is that late in the NRM lifespan and they were going backrupt they started trying to sell these roller-scooters. Didn't help. There was also long ago a story from well before current trolls existed of some unknown folks playing NRM stock on some message boards. It was all very odd.

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

Music X, Oasis Records.... not NRM?

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

With news of Monroeville Mall's possible demise, and ongoing travails at Pittsburgh Mills, interesting to look back at this article from 1989. (PG: April 10, 1989). At the time there was this 'fear' in economic development world that we were 'under-retailed'... Like, really? (PG: April 10, 1989)

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

ah... quote from here.. quoting a state report:
patch.com/pennsylvania...

Plans To Raze Pittsburgh Mall Proposed

A longtime Pittsburgh mall soon could become a memory. Patch provides the details.

patch.com

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 7d

Monroeville Mall soon to be the Isalys of eastern Allegheny County.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 8d

Not me!

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 8d

Is the Turners crate account on this site?

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Kent State University Press @ksupress.bsky.social · 8d

With the Browns and Steelers facing off this Sunday, it seems like a good time to ponder the relationship between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. @chrisbriem.bsky.social, author of our upcoming book “Beyond Steel,” argues it’s worth approaching the cities not as rivals but as Rust Belt partners.

Cleveburgh: Christopher Briem’s tale of two Rust Belt cities

Why’s an Ohio-based publisher like Kent State excited for Christopher Briem’s upcoming’s study of Pittsburgh, Beyond Steel? For one thing, we’re invested in relationships be…

kentstatebooks.wordpress.com

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 9d

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · Jun 18

In a poetic coincidence today, I now have a book cover. Not available yet, but you can pre-order, and I promised my editor everyone following here will want to preorder! But if you have landed here because of the Nippon Steel/US Steel news, you will want to read this:

Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 10d

Flush them all at once and the 150 year old Lawrenceville sewer line explodes.

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 10d

Boom goes the dynamite!

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 11d

NetBEUI=evil. IYKYK.

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Chris Briem (www.briem.com) @chrisbriem.bsky.social · 11d

For the cyber-archeologist who reads this someday. When Novell networks were the shiz, Windows for Workgroups was built on non-routeable packets. Gates is a lucky idiot. Just saying.