Pittsburgh, like any major city, has its share of historical heroes and villains. Our heroes include Andrew Carnegie, Fred Rogers and August Wilson. The bad guys (and women) include racketeer Tony Grosso and jailbreak accomplice Kate Soffel. Historic preservation is one way that we tell our city’s stories using the
David Rotenstein worked as a paid consultant to Uptown Partners on the Tito-Mecca-Zizza House designation. Now read, in his own words, the story of the "inept city planners and a conflicted and culturally and historically incompetent Historic Review Commission."