PSO's new sidewalk tiles not in concert with city law

Thu. October 08, 2009; Posted: 02:03 AM

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Oct 08, 2009 (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- PNC.C | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has hit a sour note with city officials when its contractor embedded five stone tiles -- emblazoned with PNC Bank's name and corporate logo -- in the sidewalks hugging Heinz Hall.

PSO officials didn't seek permission to put the roughly 1-square-foot logos in the sidewalk as part of a $900,000 overhaul in August and September of the brick sidewalks that run along Penn and Liberty avenues and Sixth Street, Downtown.

"We're going to remove the logos," PSO spokesman Jim Barthen said Wednesday. "We clearly did not know that we had to get a permit for that."

Sidewalks are considered publicly owned right-of-ways; therefore, corporate and political advertising is prohibited on them unless the city grants permission, as in the case of bus shelters, according to city code.

The orchestra's masonry contractor, Cost Co. of Forest Hills, paid $80 to obtain a residential-sidewalk permit for "laying sidewalk," but it makes no mention of logos.

"They didn't follow our guidelines, so in that sense they were in violation of the permit," said acting Public Works Director Rob Kaczorowski. "But they've agreed to cooperate."

He said he expects the logos to be removed within a week.

PNC donated money to defer the sidewalk-renovation costs. The logos were intended to "recognize PNC's support for the symphony," Fred Solomon, a PNC spokesman said in an e-mail.

Neither Solomon nor Barthen would provide the amount of PNC's contribution.

"It's too bad that this issue came up. It has really beautified that whole Liberty and Sixth Avenue (Street) area," Barthen said.

Some of the coffee-colored sidewalk bricks in front of Heinz Hall's entrance still display the etched-in names of individual charitable donors. They will remain.

PSO officials ordered the work to be completed before the Sept. 9 "Enchanted Evening Gala" that kicked off the orchestra's 2009-10 season and featured violinist Itzhak Perlman.

The logo bricks weren't an effort to spruce up Downtown before the Group of 20 economic summit. The work had been planned to repair signs of age and water damage, Barthen said.

More renovations will be done next year to improve the verdant, gated garden and its signature waterfalls next to the concert hall at the corner of Sixth Street and Penn Avenue.

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