The Ghost Town of Cochranton Promises not kept by Allegheny County Officials

 If you ride down Pa. 837 thru City of  Duquesne  you will encounter a wide open valley with just the Macedonia Baptist Church  as lone occupant.

You can clearly tell something was there Maybe part of the old US Steel works ? but this was not the case this was a little neighborhood known as Cochranton 

It had a small old fashioned wooden grocery store ran by an older semi retired Black Couple where iI would stop in to buy a candy bar and Ice Tea  while installing the fire and security system on Macedonia Church new Addition . and an Old Arco Gas station which was being used as a repair garage.

 One day while leaving after working on the church I heard a cry for help  while sitting at intersection waiting to get out. coming from the old gas station . I looked over and a elderly Crippled man had accidentally caught his hand in the door of his old beat up pickup and could not free himself. I immediately ran over and was able to get him free. despite and injury to his hand he refused me getting him medical care and said he would take care of it himself.

There where  also several rows of  wooden homes  many abandoned but others well kept. 

When the mills closed it hit this neighborhood hard .

So the Allegheny County Redevelopment Authority  bought out the property owners 

They had this big plan which part of which you can see in the office hall way of Macedonia church 

a gym was to be added to the church and new housing and business where the old neighborhood stood. 

Instead it has sat empty since late 90s. promises forgotten and people chased out of their homes which could have been saved.  But that's Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Redevelopment  Authority's for you when you here Redevelopment what they really mean is Negro Removal . They have done it over and over again sometimes they build things but never to scale promised and those displaced Too Bad.