2. Save Penn Plaza because, in the midst of a housing crisis, demolishing perfectly viable, well-constructed apartment buildings makes no sense
3. Save Penn Plaza because it's counterproductive to build more retail space in East Liberty when the main streets of the neighborhood are still reeling from negative consequences of urban renewal
4. Save Penn Plaza because "one of Roberto Clemente's contracts with the Pittsburgh Pirates included a two-bedroom unit in the new Penn Plaza Apartments"
5. Save Penn Plaza because, as John Conti eloquently wrote in the Tribune-Review,
"But what's also bad for the city is the loss of the buildings themselves. It has been little noted, but this collection of four- to nine-story apartment blocks is among the best and most sophisticated of large-scale housing designs from the 1960s. They are not the anonymous and depressing slabs that so much of the unloved architecture from that period represented, but rather a sophisticated mix of what are essentially six buildings of varying heights set in two clusters of three buildings each, with joining, multistory glass passageways between the buildings."
http://triblive.com/aande/architecture/9780445-74/buildings-penn-east
6. Save Penn Plaza because in the right hands Penn Plaza could become a spectacular modern apartment complex with courtyard, park and neighborhood views
