Amid the record-setting crowd in Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft, there was one small group that could heavily influence the city for years to come.
Several of those visitors were greeted by Mayor Corey O’Connor inside Pittsburgh International Airport’s new $1.7 billion landside terminal on Monday, whisked from a former steel-mill-turned-robotics-hub over to a multimillion-dollar manufacturing plant on Wednesday, and seated across from the governor, his second-in-command and the region’s top CEOs inside a Downtown skyscraper on Thursday morning.
Hours later, the group watched NFL teams select players inside the Draft Theater — a custom-built “love letter” to Pittsburgh, one top NFL official said, complete with replicas of the city’s iconic Sister Bridges, Warholian pop art and franchise decals fashioned from repurposed steel scraps.
Saturday night, the NFL announced that attendance over the three-day extravaganza had set a record — 805,000 people in total bounced between Point State Pa...
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