Dance + Live Performance | Pittsburgh City Paper

Dance + Live Performance | Pittsburgh City Paper: When she moved to the South Side Slopes, in 2005, Tami Dixon was awed by the view. From her window, she saw an urban panorama stretching from the Squirrel Hill Tunnels west to past the Point. But the more she learned about the South Side — including the South Side Flats below — the more Dixon was struck by what you could no longer see: the sprawling J&L Steel complex that had dominated the view for a century. The plant had similarly overshadowed life in the neighborhood, but now, she says, "you wouldn't even know it was there." The industrial leviathan had been leveled, and then replaced by office buildings and the retail-heavy 130-acre development known as SouthSide Works.