1 Comments Posted by BustedTresspasser

I was just up at the Dixmont complex yesterday for about 2 hours before the Kilbuck Twp police showed up and were about to tow my car. Sadly, I must report that the bridge in the photo above has been torn down, as well as the second one that is a bit farther back in the photo. All the trees for many yards on either side of Reed Hall have all been cut down and removed. The roadway under the bridges is not even visible now because it is almost totally covered with mud that has been tracked over it from all the heavy construction equipment. It is looking like Reed Hall is soon to be demolished. They've already started to tear down the one end of the building that houses the laboratory and the morgue.

I'm not one of these people that goes around preaching that WalMart is the devil and so forth, but after visiting the property yesterday, I really think that it is such a shame to raze this complex to build a new WalMart Supercenter. I understand that the buildings are old, falling apart, and dangerous and therefore should probably be torn down, but the site could be turned into something so much more useful like a new retirement home for Allegheny county's increasing population of elderly residents or even an apartment/townhome complex that would draw young adult residents to the Pittsburgh area to start their careers. The view of the river valley from the front of the Kirkbride building is really amazing now with all the trees from the front of the property removed. You can see Neville Island clearly from one end to the other. I really think that this is a shame and a horribly squandered opportunity. This type of thinking is what led to the decline of the Pgh region and keeps it down. City and county authorities keep trying to solve the problems by making more stupid development decisions and raising taxes. Way to go, morons. Such a shame.