The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership plans to play a major role in the next effort to draw high-end retailers into the Golden Triangle.
But the partnership wants to take a different approach than in the past, when the city tried for several years to engage one developer in a mega-project to redo the entire corridor.
The partnership wants to match retailers with individual property owners, much as it did to attract several new businesses to Market Square earlier this year, said Mike Edwards, the partnership''s president and chief executive officer.
"This is a big challenge for us. A lot of people have tried and failed," Mr. Edwards said, referring to former Mayor Tom Murphy''s Fifth and Forbes effort in the 1990s, with big public subsidies for the former Lazarus and Lord & Taylor stores, both of which have since closed.
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