by Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)

It has been seven years since McKees Rocks announced a mixed-use plan for 52 acres of a former Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad site. The site was targeted in 2003 as a focus of the borough’s strategic economic revitalization.

The McKees Rocks Community Development Corp. and borough council had worked out a plan for its reuse with Trinity Development, which contracted a design and a market study on which it based the funding it attracted.

The plan was to include two buildings for light industrial use that would provide more than 1,000 jobs. But the developer has stepped away from the plan, and its advocates now say that 15 years of economic development effort may be in jeopardy.

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