Deal Struck Between Heinz and Pittsburgh Wool Company. Pittsburgh Wool to close and building will be razed for warehouse. And, for the first time the Heinz Company posts something at their website about the Pittsburgh Wool takeover. Pittsburgh Wool agrees to withdraw its nomination for designation as a City of Pittsburgh historic resource and a mitigation plan is developed that includes HAER drawings, photographs, video and the preparation of a historic context report. Directed by the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, work begins on the historic context report and HAER documentation.
HAER architects conduct fieldwork.
Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's article here . Heinz and the Pittsburgh Wool Co. used to do business with a handshake, complain Roy and Jeff Kumer, but now Heinz is arming itself with eminent domain to get its way. Pittsburgh Wool Co. and Heinz settle property war . Heinz, Wool both staying home . Steelers President Dan Rooney has brokered a deal allowing the H.J. Heinz Co. to expand onto Pittsburgh Wool Co. property without the city having to seize the land through eminent domain.