And as for the region immediately surrounding the facility, the only way to truly appreciate the transformation is if we could see what the area looked like 10 years ago compared to today.
In the early 2000s, a plan was conceived to redevelop and revitalize the area, the name Quartier des Spectacles was given, and the transformation began.
It's been a 30-year transformation for Pittsburgh since the failing steel industry left the area with a 18.3 percent jobless rate in the early 1980s, said Dennis Yablonsky, head of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
He really thought that in order to have stability and something resembling peace in this area the Arab world and the Palestinians have to go through something of a transformation and that takes time.