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Leadership for Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Development Changes Hands.

By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 17--Ending more than two decades at the helm, Frank Brooks Robinson is stepping down as president of the Regional Industrial Development Corp., a nonprofit development agency that has done much to shape the region's economic landscape.

Replacing the 71-year-old Robinson at RIDC is Robert Stephenson, 64, a former real estate executive who in June will leave his post as president of the Strategic Investment Fund.

Robinson, who was quiet about his work but once

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