Once a thriving commercial destination amidst the industrial center of steel production in the Monongahela Valley, the small town of Braddock, Pennsylvania suffered through a brutal postindustrial decline in the 1980s. When its massive economic engine sputtered out, Braddock lost ninety percent of everything—its buildings, its businesses, its people.
Yet Braddock remains a richly historic area populated by wonderful and resilient people. Amidst the remains of housing and commerce a community grassroots effort to revitalize the town is taking shape.
