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Native Eastern redbud trees in bloom along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh as seen last May.
To learn more
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is hosting a free webinar celebrating the Pittsburgh Redbud Project and Pittsburgh s riverfronts and greenspaces.
Registration is available now and open to the public at WaterLandLife.org/Webinars.
To learn more about redbuds in Pittsburgh, visit the conservancy s website.
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It might not be as celebrated as the cherry blossoms of Washington D.C. at least not yet but the massive planting of native redbud trees with dense pink-purple blossoms along Pittsburgh’s North Shore and other locations are in full bloom and are expected to last through next week.
What makes Pittsburgh such an attractive movie location?
Tax credits for film companies are just the beginning, says Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office.
“We have such a diversity of locations. Pittsburgh can look like any place in the world,” she says. “The only things we don’t have are a beach and a desert.
“We do New York better than New York,” she says. “We’ve been San Francisco, Paris, Ukraine and Atlanta.”
There’s the beauty of the city viewed from the West End Overlook or Mt. Washington and downtown’s blend of modern and historical architecture, she says. Drive for an hour and you have mountains, small towns, farmland and other attractive settings.