car garage right in the middle , of town for three thousand00 dollars. don t believe it.realto check it out yourself. for unreal true.com. so you know the story. man for decades,uf the biggestthing employer in braddockca was manufacturing something called the edgar thompson steelworks. in fact, andrew carnegie steelwt it there along with his first stone public library, which still stands so for generations, braddock, pennsylvania, was a real place and then inevitably a steel plant closed and the usualrnegie disasters arrived. unemployment, hopelessness, drugs. people left by the thousands. but one man saw an opportunity br in braddock, pennsylvania, not an opportunityt an for the town but an opportunity for himself. that man s s name was john fetterman. fetterman was thirty five years old and had never in his life had a real job.job. geteran was not from braddock, hardly. he grew up ittn an affluent neighborhood four hours away. fetterman had spent his adulte life going t
john fetterman squaren began in earnest.in the guardian newspaper described john fetterman as the coolest mayor in the country. the new yor times told its readers he didn t know any better that john fetterman had, quote, turned the busted town of braddock into a national symbol of hope, hard work and authentic blue jeans. how inspiring fetterman thought it was. he went on a national weres to brag about how he was single handedly saving this benighted a mill town in westerne pennsylvania. he gave a ted talk., abou of course he did.wa but he was running braddock, using the lessons that he learned at harvard in 2011. he went, of course he did, to aspen ideas festival to furthers brag. here s what he said, quote gall, we created the first art galleryer in the four town region with artists studios. we did public art installationss . and i don idert know irt f you consider it art exactly, but i consider growing organic vegetables, but in the shadow a a steel mill, an art and that has att