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 (The Atlantic / Illustration by Quickhoney) John Fetterman, a young and heavily tattooed giant with a public-policy degree from Harvard and a mountain of ambition, wants to save his city by luring artists and small businesses with loft apartments, cheap rent, and other inducements.
Pennsylvania Mayor Is a Brave Thinker
OCTOBER 26, 2009 Read this story about John Fetterman's efforts to revitalize Braddock, Pennsylvania: www.msnbc.com/33450516Excerpt:
What others have written off occurs to John Fetterman as a calling. The hulking, 6-foot-8 Harvard Kennedy School graduate’s commitment to Braddock, Pennsylvania is as visceral as it is visionary: He has the city's ZIP code, 15104, tattooed on his left forearm, along with the dates of each murder that has occurred under his watch. For the past several years, he has been leading efforts to creatively reknit the community, working with remaining residents to convert abandoned spaces into community spaces. He helped a local mason build a brick-oven pizza kitchen out of fallen debris from a neighborhood building. He purchased an old millworker’s row house with $7,000 of his own money and converted it into a foster home for abandoned children. An old Catholic middle school is now a studio and gallery for local artists.Read more about John Fetterman in a feature by The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/doc/200911/brave-thinkers
(The image included above is borrowed from The Atlantic.)
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