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A developer plans to donate the Tito House to an Uptown nonprofit, but it wants to demolish the historic garage on the property to make way for a project that would bring more than 250 apartments to the site. Dallas-based Fountain Residential Partners is acquiring the property in Pittsburgh’s Uptown.
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."