Nice roundup of what is coming soon to Uptown and how small local businesses are preparing to capitalize:
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/ci...s/201711250007
There are a couple notes about how rough/dangerous it was in the 1990s compared to now. That is a general national trend (urban crime peaked in the early 1990s and has come way down since then), and I think it is absolutely critical to the resurgence of neighborhoods like this.