I bought myself a book scanner as a quarantine present. I seem to have piles of things that may exist out there in archives (and a few things that may not), but not otherwise accessible that may be of interest to a small niche of folks out there. So starting with… 1/

Here is ‘A More Effective Industrial Development Program for the Pittsburgh Region’ from the Pennsylvania Economy League' November 19, 1954. Report leads to the creation of @RIDC_SWPA but is a broad look into economic development thoughts of the time.
http://www.briem.com/files/PEL_RIDC_1954.pdf

Here is a tremendous compendium that more should use. From 1991 the Historic Site Survey of the Greater Monongahela River Valley from the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. I see @BrianButko listed as a contributor:
http://www.briem.com/files/HSWP_MonValley_1991.pdf

This is a URA report you think from title/date was seminal, but I don’t believe it was widely read and really pointed down some rabbit holes that never developed a lot of jobs. See: Shorebank Associates, Developing Pittsburgh’s Biotechnology Assets (1988)
http://www.briem.com/files/Shorebank_PittsburghBiotechnology_1988.pdf

For example, it spent a lot of time focusing on potential of regional biomedical imaging industry which has not exactly generated a lot of jobs. But observations of local challenges were valid and many continue to be the same challenges.

In 1988 and looking out over the subsequent 5-10 years, where did the bulk of economic deveopment effort/money go? The Midfield terminal at the airport and the hope for a new airline hub industry here.

Also from 1988, interesting thing it was a report sponsored by the region's largest electric utility. Various reasons Duquesne Light was involved in public policy more at the time.

The Pittsburgh Regional Challenge: An agenda for the future
http://www.briem.com/files/DuquesneLight_Pittsburgh_1988.pdf

Laventhol and Horwath you ask? The nation's 7th largest accounting firm at the time. Ironically they went bankrupty just a couple years in the future.

How do accounting firms go bust? Oh yeah, Arthur Andersen as well.

This one I’m surprised is not online anywhere as best I can tell. Folks talk about the Working Together effort of the 1990s a lot. Here is a Progress Report - The Greater Pittsburgh Region: Working Together to Compete Globally, May 1998
http://www.briem.com/files/WorkingTogether_1998.pdf

Mr. Mellon’s Patch, Time Magazine, Oct 3, 1949 “The Allegheny Conference was an experiment in a new and wiser capitalism – working to repair the damage done by the purposeful haste and thoughtlessness of the old empire builders”
http://www.briem.com/files/Time_PittsburghMellon_October031949.pdf