Pittsburgh Center Honoring Playwright Finds Itself Short on Visitors and Donors - NYTimes.comPITTSBURGH — The bank has sued to foreclose.
The city’s philanthropic groups, with names like Mellon and Heinz, have withdrawn support.
The $42 million August Wilson Center for African American Culture, a bow-front building inspired by a Swahili sailing ship, is high and dry.
...Instead, it appears to be a victim of mismanagement by its senior staff and board of directors, who borrowed to build a grand palace of culture, but failed to find a wide enough audience and donor base in the hometown of Wilson, whose plays are mostly set in the Hill District just blocks away.
...Instead, it appears to be a victim of mismanagement by its senior staff and board of directors, who borrowed to build a grand palace of culture, but failed to find a wide enough audience and donor base in the hometown of Wilson, whose plays are mostly set in the Hill District just blocks away.
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