Actually, UPMC put the southside complex together, and Pitt was an equal renter. The Steelers had a mud lot near 3RS as a practice field. The Rooney's and their lackey Mayor Smurphy negotiated the deal with Nordy & the BOT. Pitt let the stadium go downhill (It was 70+ years old) and had high maintenance costs, no club facilities/boxes/press rooms or amenities. We got a longterm lease at a low cost, UPMC gets rent, and space to build a needed arena was made available. The plan to build the Pete on the OC lot, connected to a remodeled stadium by elevators was too expensive....would have been terrific. But 6-7 gamedays didn't merit that expenditure. I hated it, but it was the reasonable solution to replacing 2 outdated facilities that housed our 2 revenue sports.