Vacancy rates are stable if still high. We still have to keep at it, but people see the progress and that is very important. The hottest market in the suburbs has been the newly created Parkway West market, which runs between Downtown and the new Pittsburgh International Airport. Though it has been a center of activity recently, it has not guaranteed smooth sailing. We have had a few bumps along the way, but transitions take time and we are making a great transition to the service and biotechnology industries here.
People think of smokestacks when they think of Pittsburgh.
But what they find is very different. There are 133 municipalities just in Allegheny County alone and good sites can demand remediation. But people transferred here on business end up not wanting to leave. And we've ended up not wanting to either. There's a spirit here you want to be a part of and build on.