27 Jan
2012
27 Jan
'12
7:37 a.m.
On 01/24/2012 07:37 PM, David Riley wrote:
Ugh, Morgantown. I have a little bit of experience with that town.
Better than much of WV, but still not much fun.
But yes, while Pittsburgh is very much an "up and coming" town with
TONS AND TONS of high tech, it is still in the early years of its
upswing, so there are lots of buildings available. Some of them are
REALLY nice. We looked at an awesome church, complete with a gigantic
pipe organ still installed, that we could've had for about $20K, but it
would've needed about $80K of immediate work to be able to do anything
with it.
Then there was this huge granite former bank building. Gorgeous. It
was full of water, unfortunately, and the former bank had removed the
vault. (which I just don't get)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
One nice side
effect of the demise of American small business and
American manufacturing is the unbelievably cheap commercial
property that anyone can just walk up and buy.
Especially that close to Pittsburgh, I would imagine so! I lived in
Morgantown briefly (not recommended), and there was so much empty
space and abandoned factories/warehouses out that way. Interesting,
and sad in a lot of ways, but certainly an opportunity. :-)