U. S. Steel, Pittsburgh Penguins Team Up in Support of Braddock Carnegie Library
May 10 2022 - 12:05PM
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CEO & Hockey Hall of Famer to Serve as
Co-Chairs of Capital Campaign
United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) (“U. S. Steel”) and
the Pittsburgh Penguins announced today that Penguin’s alumni and
Hockey Hall of Famer Bryan Trottier and David B. Burritt, President
& CEO of U. S. Steel, will serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of an
$18 million capital campaign to renovate the Braddock Carnegie
Library. The historic institution launched the campaign in support
of a major building renovation.
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U. S. Steel, Pittsburgh Penguins Carnegie
One Capital Campaign in Support of BCLA
“This valued community asset is ready for an upgrade to equip it
with the state-of-the-art tools necessary to serve the next
generation of Mon Valley families,” said David B. Burritt,
President & CEO, U. S. Steel. “At U. S. Steel, our Best for
All® strategy includes the communities in which we live and work,
which is why we are pleased to help kickstart the campaign with a
$500,000 donation. Just as we focused on getting to the future
faster, the library is ready to write its next chapter, and we are
pleased to be a partner with the Pittsburgh Penguins in this
important community effort.”
During the rise of the steel industry, U. S. Steel founder
Andrew Carnegie chose Braddock - the home of his first steel mill
called Edgar Thomson Works - as the site of his “free to the
public” library. The Braddock library would become the first of
1,687 free public libraries he would fund throughout the United
States.
Carnegie envisioned the library as a place for employees, their
families, and the community to gather and grow. The renovation plan
includes much-needed physical improvements, to enable the Braddock
Carnegie Library Association (BCLA) to better fulfill its social
mission as a responsive, essential place of community learning,
development, and enrichment for its neighbors.
“Education has always played an important role in my life and
has helped me to reach such great heights in my career,” said
seven-time Stanley Cup Champion Bryan Trottier. “I believe in the
value of a strong community, and in the importance of having a
place to gather to learn and have fun. The Braddock Carnegie
Library is a vital piece of this community, and I am proud to lead
this campaign alongside our good friends at U. S. Steel.”
“The Pittsburgh Penguins are eager to partner with U. S. Steel
and the Braddock Carnegie Library to champion the region through
the Penguins Foundation’s pillars: community, education, wellness
and youth hockey,” said Jim Britt, executive director of the
Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation. “Mirroring the Penguins’ investment
in the historic Hunt Armory as the home of our diversity hockey
programing, we envision this space housing Pittsburgh Penguins
Foundation educational programs like the Reading Champions program,
built in partnership with U. S. Steel, continuing to add available
local literacy resources for schools and families.”
The BCLA serves approximately 15,000 residents in five
communities - Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh, Chalfant,
and Turtle Creek – with tools for dynamic, engaged learning, and
resources for meeting life’s challenges. In addition to an
extensive lending collection, BCLA offers arts and culture programs
in its Neighborhood Print Shop and Bathhouse Ceramics Studio; hosts
the Artist in the Library Series and Resident Artist in Residence,
provides education and workforce development opportunities that
connect patrons to jobs, offers meeting spaces for community groups
of all types and serves as a safe haven for children and adults.
The BCLA is a vital organization to the community, but the current
state of its facility is limiting the larger impact it could
make.
Right now, only 50% of the building is accessible, but the
renovation will create universal accessibility to all floors of the
library, including the Music Hall, accommodating all guests with
dignity. The renovation will adapt a structure that has already
served area residents across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries so
that it can continue to sustain itself and evolve for many years to
come.
Since the formation of the campaign, BCLA has raised more than
$8 million in support of the Braddock Carnegie Library renovation
project including lead grants from the Eden Hall Foundation,
Allegheny Foundation, and Richard King Mellon Foundation, as well
as from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Capital Assistance Program
and the Pennsylvania Department of Education Keystone Grant for
Public Library Facilities.
If you would like to learn more or donate to the Carnegie One
Capital Campaign in support of BCLA click here.
Founded in 1901, United States Steel Corporation is a leading
steel producer. With an unwavering focus on safety, the company’s
customer-centric Best for All® strategy is advancing a more secure,
sustainable future for U. S. Steel and its stakeholders. With a
renewed emphasis on innovation, U. S. Steel serves the automotive,
construction, appliance, energy, containers, and packaging
industries with high value-added steel products such as U. S.
Steel’s proprietary XG3™ advanced high-strength steel. The company
also maintains competitively advantaged iron ore production and has
an annual raw steelmaking capability of 22.4 million net tons. U.
S. Steel is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with
world-class operations across the United States and in Central
Europe. For more information, please visit www.ussteel.com.
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Amanda Malkowski Lead, Media Relations U. S. Steel T- (412)
433-2512 E- almalkowski@uss.com
Jennifer Bullano Ridgley Vice President, Communications
Pittsburgh Penguins T- (412) 255-1777 E-
jbullano@pittsburghpenguins.com
Ashley Henry Shook Principal, Mulberry Public Affairs Braddock
Community Library Association T- (412) 352-8885 E-
Ashley@mulberrypa.com
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