Post-Gazette: Mayor's roundtable to beef up Downtown retail district

Faced with the loss of Saks Fifth Avenue, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is turning to developers, building owners and other stakeholders in a bid to attract more retail Downtown.

Mr. Ravenstahl convened the Downtown Retail Working Group within the past few weeks and charged it with finding ways to keep existing retailers in place while enticing others to move into the Golden Triangle.

Yarone Zober, the mayor's chief of staff, said the goal is not to try to re-create the grandiose Fifth and Forbes plans floated by former Mayor Tom Murphy, but to appeal to retailers that might be a "good fit" for Downtown.
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