Pittsburgh getting a Monopoly version!

[kevinb1994]

You can get your hands on famous landmarks such as Steel Tower, the Sisters Bridges, Carnegie Museum, August Wilson, etc.

http://www.wtae.com/article/monopoly-game-pittsburgh-will-soon-have-its-own/39196375

[HighwayStar]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

[kevinb1994]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Or if they make a Chicago version, abandoned McDonalds   K-Mart is spot-on. Steel Mill too.

[Max Rockatansky]

We have the Firebaugh knock off version of Monopoly somewhere in our game room.  Truth be told I don't care for some of the changes that were made with things like the Chance Cards doing weird things and Free Parking payouts being an actual rule. 

[HighwayStar]

We have the Firebaugh knock off version of Monopoly somewhere in our game room.  Truth be told I don't care for some of the changes that were made with things like the Chance Cards doing weird things and Free Parking payouts being an actual rule.

Oh Chance Cards!

Pull a Pittsburgh Left out of town, pay $200 lawyer fee.

[jmacswimmer]

Anyone else want to play this version with Angelo?

[Max Rockatansky]

Anyone else want to play this version with Angelo?

Gross!...too vegan. 

[Rothman]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Pittsburgh shook off its rust quite some time ago.  Pretty impressive, really, given how stuck in rust the other cities in the Belt have been.

[webny99]

Whoa, did I travel back in time or something? Rochester, NY is a much smaller city than Pittsburgh, and it's had it's own Monopoly for years. I guess I just kind of assumed that all bigger cities had their own Monopoly.

[Rothman]

Whoa, did I travel back in time or something? Rochester, NY is a much smaller city than Pittsburgh, and it's had it's own Monopoly for years. I guess I just kind of assumed that all bigger cities had their own Monopoly.

Northampton, MA had its own version back in the early 1980s (population just over 29,000...funny, I always thought Northampton was bigger than Amherst...).

[hotdogPi]

Reading, MA (population 25,000) created its own version, but it was basically a huge advertisement for all the businesses on the board. It started at $25, but few enough people wanted it that they reduced the price several times until they eventually gave the remaining ones out for free.

[Rothman]

Reading, MA (population 25,000) created its own version, but it was basically a huge advertisement for all the businesses on the board. It started at $25, but few enough people wanted it that they reduced the price several times until they eventually gave the remaining ones out for free.

Ouch.  I think you can still find the Northampton version for sale.

[jeffandnicole]

Reading, MA (population 25,000) created its own version, but it was basically a huge advertisement for all the businesses on the board. It started at $25, but few enough people wanted it that they reduced the price several times until they eventually gave the remaining ones out for free.

Ouch.  I think you can still find the Northampton version for sale.

A small $25 tax increase per property will take care of those losses.

[SectorZ]

Reading, MA (population 25,000) created its own version, but it was basically a huge advertisement for all the businesses on the board. It started at $25, but few enough people wanted it that they reduced the price several times until they eventually gave the remaining ones out for free.

I can't imagine being the business that's stuck being Baltic or Mediterranean.

It's got its own built-in railroad already at least.

[HighwayStar]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Pittsburgh shook off its rust quite some time ago.  Pretty impressive, really, given how stuck in rust the other cities in the Belt have been.

No it did not. A handful of outside companies moved into downtown with some offices and the politicians tried to tell us that it was "fixed."
The reality is the city is still in sad shape, and many of the people that lived there left in search of work elsewhere already. No real industry ever recovered there, just hipster crap downtown and a handful of corporate offices.

[kkt]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

[SkyPesos]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Bet Detroit would be cheap too. 

[Rothman]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Pittsburgh shook off its rust quite some time ago.  Pretty impressive, really, given how stuck in rust the other cities in the Belt have been.

No it did not. A handful of outside companies moved into downtown with some offices and the politicians tried to tell us that it was "fixed."
The reality is the city is still in sad shape, and many of the people that lived there left in search of work elsewhere already. No real industry ever recovered there, just hipster crap downtown and a handful of corporate offices.

Once again, your perception of reality is quite amusing.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Pittsburgh shook off its rust quite some time ago.  Pretty impressive, really, given how stuck in rust the other cities in the Belt have been.

No it did not. A handful of outside companies moved into downtown with some offices and the politicians tried to tell us that it was "fixed."
The reality is the city is still in sad shape, and many of the people that lived there left in search of work elsewhere already. No real industry ever recovered there, just hipster crap downtown and a handful of corporate offices.

Is there some reason people hate seeing northern non-coastal cities do well? There's just this bizarre denial of northern inland cities doing well as if the coasts and Sun Belt hope they die.

[HighwayStar]

What they need is a Rustbelt Monopoly version. Properties like

Abandoned Burger King
Abandoned Pizza Hut
Abandoned Ames
Abandoned Kmart
Abandoned Steel Mill

Pass Go, collect $20 unemployment.  Game ends when everyone is bankrupt except for one ultra wealthy person.

Pittsburgh shook off its rust quite some time ago.  Pretty impressive, really, given how stuck in rust the other cities in the Belt have been.

No it did not. A handful of outside companies moved into downtown with some offices and the politicians tried to tell us that it was "fixed."
The reality is the city is still in sad shape, and many of the people that lived there left in search of work elsewhere already. No real industry ever recovered there, just hipster crap downtown and a handful of corporate offices.

Is there some reason people hate seeing northern non-coastal cities do well? There's just this bizarre denial of northern inland cities doing well as if the coasts and Sun Belt hope they die.

On the contrary, the phenomenon is coastal elites trying to tell places like Pittsburgh that they have "recovered" even if most the people that originally lived there have long since been forced to leave an the recovery does not result in any real industry coming back.

[Mr_Northside]

even if most the people that originally lived there have long since been forced to leave an the recovery does not result in any real industry coming back.

I'm not sure how one defines "people that originally lived there".   It could be said that all the people that originally lived here have long since died centuries ago.

Healthcare & education are the primary industries now, and I think most of the people living here know that the days of industry=manufacturing aren't coming back in any meaningful way.

More on-topic, I'm pretty sure I've seen unofficial (certainly unlicensed) Pittsburgh Monopoly versions before.  We'll see what the official one looks like.

[HighwayStar]

even if most the people that originally lived there have long since been forced to leave an the recovery does not result in any real industry coming back.

I'm not sure how one defines "people that originally lived there".   It could be said that all the people that originally lived here have long since died centuries ago.

Healthcare & education are the primary industries now, and I think most of the people living here know that the days of industry=manufacturing aren't coming back in any meaningful way.

More on-topic, I'm pretty sure I've seen unofficial (certainly unlicensed) Pittsburgh Monopoly versions before.  We'll see what the official one looks like.

Healthcare and education are industries that anyplace with inhabitant needs. Schools and hospitals are not a sustaining industry.

"most of the people living here know that the days of industry=manufacturing aren't coming back in any meaningful way." Yes, because either they A) Came from outside and never needed those industries because they were wealthy or B) Have been convinced that industry is never coming back by the media and a host of others. Of course if you sit and tell yourself it can't get better, then it won't.

[Dirt Roads]

More on-topic, I'm pretty sure I've seen unofficial (certainly unlicensed) Pittsburgh Monopoly versions before.  We'll see what the official one looks like.

Maybe that's what I remember.  The folks at Westinghouse Transportation Division had a 'Burgh Monopoly version in the front office from back before the early 1990s.

[ET21]

I need to get an updated Monopoly Chicago version, my grandparents have a very old one from the 1980s

[kkt]

I need to get an updated Monopoly Chicago version, my grandparents have a very old one from the 1980s

Are there substantive changes or just a little wear and tear?