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Pittsburgh's Hill District Was Cleared Once for an Arena. It Got a Veto Before the Second One Was Built.
In 1956, Pittsburgh's urban renewal authority demolished the Lower Hill District to build a Civic Arena, displacing 8,000 residents. Fifty-two years later, when the Penguins needed a new arena on nearly the same ground, the Hill District wasn't cleared again -- almost 100 community groups negotiated binding veto power over the neighborhood's own master plan first.
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