Release Date: Wednesday, December 17th 2008

Changemaker: Mike Edwards and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership

Changemaker: Mike Edwards and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership

Pop City

By: Abby Mendelson

Lanky, athletic, affable – on a bright morning Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) President and CEO Mike Edwards is still aglow from a three-day bicycle trip he’s just taken to his hometown of Buffalo. Most days he bikes to work from his home in Mt. Lebanon. This day, relaxing in lovely digs in the rehabbed Ewart Building, on Liberty Avenue in the Cultural District, Edwards waxes expansive. “I came here for my wife,” he says of Mary Jordan Edwards, Pittsburgh native and Houston Harbaugh bond attorney, “But Pittsburgh grows on people. It’s happened to me.” He pauses. “There are some pretty amazing parts of Pittsburgh. It surprises me all the time.”
 

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